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Best Cybersecurity Companies in Utrecht, Netherlands

The 31 best Cybersecurity companies in Utrecht, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: FRISS.

31companies tracked
$105.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
4have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · CYBERSECURITY × UTRECHT

Our analysis of 174 Cybersecurity companies

$16.2b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

174companies analysed
96%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
20unicorns
2018median founding year
71kcombined LinkedIn audience
74%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in Utrecht

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1FRISS
Provider of trust automation platform for property and casualty insurance carriers
62AI top 20%Moat top 22%Talent top 28%Funding top 36%
All 10 signals ▾
AItop 20%
Moattop 22%
Talenttop 28%
Fundingtop 36%
Globaltop 44%
Markettop 46%
Producttop 49%
Techtop 50%
Growthbottom 35%
Newsbottom 24%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100
$89M60 mo agoSeries BJeroen Morrenhof
Co-Founder
2006Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+17—
2SurePay
Provider of financial fraud management platform
$14M62 mo agoSeries BMarcel Rienties
Founder
2016WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26—
3MeetinVR
Provider of cloud-based mixed reality business meetings management solutions
$2M77 mo agoAcquiredCristian Emanuel Anton
Co-Founder & CEO
2016TypeScriptThree.jsMicrosoft ASP.NET+16—
4Passguard
Provider of infostealer monitoring detecting compromised devices and session data
$500K14 mo agoSeedAnthony Wedding
Co-Founder & CPO
2021Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+16—
5Sygno
AI-based AML and transaction risk monitoring solution for banks and financial institutions
—16 mo agoSeries ASjoerd Slot
Co-Founder
2003——
6ATIP CFS
Regulatory reporting solutions for pension funds and insurance companies
——DeadpooledJan-Willem van der Schors
Co-Founder
2020——
7brama systems
Brama Systems offers a number of services that assist businesses in managing their IT infrastructures…
——Private—2008——
8Business Forensics
KYC, AML, and fraud solutions for banks and insurance companies
——Acquired—2010——

Top 5 Cybersecurity companies in Utrecht

#1
Seed · Leusden, Utrecht · founded 2021
$500Kraised
▾

Provider of infostealer monitoring detecting compromised devices and session data. It alerts when infected devices and sessions are for sale. The company delivers data, including malware type and infection timeline. It offers a dashboard to investigate exposure and revoke compromised sessions.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 590 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Seed$500K
Founders & team
Anthony WeddingCo-Founder & CPOSanno GraafCo-Founder & CTOTom LeijteCo-Founder & CEO
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesBunnyCloudflare TurnstileCookiebotDetectify
#2
Series B · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2006 · 208 employees
$88.7Mraised
▾

Provider of trust automation platform for property and casualty insurance carriers. The platform helps automate risk assessment processes behind every customer interaction. It analyzes policy requests, renewals, and claims for trustworthiness, flagging high risks. The platform offers solutions for underwriting, claims, and investigations.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 62how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Moat
top 22%
Talent
top 28%
Funding
top 36%
Global
top 44%
Market
top 46%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn
Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5 · 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Audience (LinkedIn): 26k LinkedIn followers — 36.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2021Series B$6M
  • Jul 2021Series B$65M
  • Dec 2017Series A$17.7M
Founders & team
Jeroen MorrenhofCo-FounderChristian van LeeuwenCo-FounderMireille DyrbergCEO
Investors
Aquiline Capital Partners, BlackFin, Guidewire, Accel-KKR, Lloyd’s Lab Accelerator
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesCore-Js
#3
Series B · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2016 · 85 employees
$14.4Mraised
▾

Provider of payee confirmation services intended to assure that payments are going to the right recipient. The company assists financial institutions and organizations in the process of confirming the payee's name match the name on the intended recipient's bank account, enabling clients to avoid misdirected payments and reduce push payment fraud.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 12k LinkedIn followers — 16.4% of this cohort's audience
Founders & team
Marcel RientiesFounderDavid Jan JanseFounder
Investors
Connected Capital, Rabo Frontier Ventures, IRIS
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDraftpress Hfcm
#4
Acquired · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2016 · 10 employees
$1.5Mraised
▾

MeetinVR provides cloud-based mixed reality business meetings management solutions. It solutions features such as virtual reality software, VR management, review management, design management, collaboration management, meetings management, brainstorm solutions, sketch management, interact videos, collaborative software, innovation management, and enterprise software management. Clients include Volvo Cars, MetaVRse, Varjo, and XRBase & VRDays.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 5.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. MeetinVR) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2020Seed$500K
  • Dec 2019Seed$616.1K
  • Jun 2019Seed$223K
  • Oct 2016Seed$36.8K
Founders & team
Cristian Emanuel AntonCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Vaekstfonden, PreSeed Ventures, Copenhagen United
#5
Series A · Leusden, Utrecht · founded 2003 · 17 employees
—raised
▾

AI-based AML and transaction risk monitoring solution for banks and financial institutions. It offers a solution that enables banks and financial institutions to automate the fraud and transaction risk monitoring process. It uses an artificial intelligence-based solution for behavior analysis.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 960 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Allianz) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2025Series A—
  • Aug 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Sjoerd SlotCo-FounderDirk MourikCo-Founder
Investors
FIS, TIN Capital, ROM Utrecht Region, TIIN Capital

Funding & investor landscape

$105.1Mtotal disclosed funding
4companies funded
8disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Connected Capital2 rounds
Accel-KKR1 rounds
Aquiline Capital Partners1 rounds
BlackFin1 rounds
Capnamic Ventures1 rounds
Copenhagen United1 rounds
Dutch Founders Fund1 rounds
FIS1 rounds
Guidewire1 rounds
IRIS1 rounds

Notable founders

Anthony Wedding
Co-Founder & CPO · Passguard
Sanno Graaf
Co-Founder & CTO · Passguard
Jeroen Morrenhof
Co-Founder · FRISS
Christian van Leeuwen
Co-Founder · FRISS
Marcel Rienties
Founder · SurePay
David Jan Janse
Founder · SurePay
Cristian Emanuel Anton
Co-Founder & CEO · MeetinVR
Sjoerd Slot
Co-Founder · Sygno
Dirk Mourik
Co-Founder · Sygno
Prism market signals · Netherlands · country-scoped Prism corpus, 122,680 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Cybersecurity coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth flat

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Netherlands

How research on Cybersecurity is moving in the Netherlands

A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 108 Netherlands-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201520192025
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 15% → 31% across 2015–2025.
top research entities
  • University of Twente28
  • Delft University of Technology20
  • Ministry of Defence14
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam8
  • Radboud University Nijmegen5
leading researchers
Anna Sperotto · Aiko Pras · Nitin Naik · Paul Jenkins · Qiang Shen · Sandro Etalle · Jessica Steinberger · Harald Baier
▲ Breakthroughs41 · 38%
▲ 17%→42% share
▲2.5× share momentum4 median citations39% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (17%→42% of field), led by Scalability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Scalability1→4
  • Intrusion detection system5→6
  • Denial-of-service attack3→4
Landmark Building an Intrusion Detection System Using a Filter-Based Feature Selection Algorithm · 619 cites
◆ Advancements28 · 26%
▼ 39%→13% share
▼0.3× share momentum11 median citations32% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (39%→13% of field), led by Computer security.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security10
  • Intrusion detection system9
  • Network security7
  • Data mining5
  • Firewall (physics)4
Landmark A framework for attack patterns' discovery in honeynet data · 87 cites
▼ Concerns27 · 25%
▼ 28%→26% share
▼0.9× share momentum4 median citations44% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (28%→26% of field), led by Intrusion detection system.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Intrusion detection system1→4
  • Network security3→5
Landmark An Overview of IP Flow-Based Intrusion Detection · 454 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Netherlands

Where cybersecurity is researched across Netherlands

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Delft22 · +0.18
Hot · Computer securityAdvancing · Intrusion detection systemOpportunity · BotnetConcern · Network security
Groningen19 · +0.46
Hot · Network securityAdvancing · Intrusion detection systemOpportunity · Key (lock)
Amsterdam11 · +0.45
Hot · Computer security
Nijmegen5 · +0.42
Opportunity · Entropy (arrow of time)
Eindhoven5 · -0.08
Hot · Computer securityConcern · Network security

Common questions

How many Cybersecurity companies are there in Utrecht, Netherlands?
Radar tracks 31 indexable Cybersecurity companies headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Cybersecurity companies in Utrecht, Netherlands?
The Cybersecurity companies in Utrecht, Netherlands on this list have raised a combined $105.1M in disclosed equity funding across 4 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Utrecht, Netherlands?
FRISS is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Utrecht, Netherlands, with $88.7M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Cybersecurity companies in Utrecht, Netherlands are funded?
4 of the 31 Cybersecurity companies in Utrecht, Netherlands on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Cybersecurity unicorns are there in Utrecht, Netherlands?
None of the Cybersecurity companies in Utrecht, Netherlands on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Utrecht, Netherlands Cybersecurity companies?
The most active investors in Utrecht, Netherlands Cybersecurity companies on this list include Connected Capital, Accel-KKR, Aquiline Capital Partners, BlackFin, Capnamic Ventures.
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