Eye Security

Eye Security

SME-focused MXDR with bundled cyber insurance

Overview

Eye Security offers an all-in-one, subscription cybersecurity service for mid-market European SMEs, pooling MXDR with 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, and a bundled cyber insurance policy (since 2022). It works by rapidly deploying into a client’s existing infrastructure within hours and delivering continuous monitoring across endpoints, networks, and cloud, backed by an insurance layer that covers financial risk. The company stands out through its founders’ AIVD security background, a full security stack, and a European focus that combines technical protection with financial risk coverage. Its goal is to help SMEs meet rising cybersecurity and regulatory requirements (e.g., NIS2) while expanding its footprint across Europe.

About Eye Security

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Why Eye Security is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Consulting

Enterprise Software

Cybersecurity

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$128.7M

Headquarters

The Hague, Netherlands

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • August 24, 2026 Series C raised €60 million led by Sofina for expansion.
  • Eye Security says more than 1,000 organisations use its platform across Benelux and DACH.
  • Its 2026 incident report cites 630 investigations, sharpening marketing around phishing and BEC.

What critics are saying

  • One severe ransomware year can exhaust Eye Underwriting B.V. capacity and break the bundle.
  • Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Sophos commoditize MDR, squeezing Eye Security's 2026 pricing power.
  • Sofina's €60 million round forces rapid Germany expansion before 2027 conversion slows.

What makes Eye Security unique

  • Former AIVD founders Job Kuijpers, Piet Kerkhofs, and Vincent van de Ven sell intelligence-grade response.
  • Eye Security bundles MXDR and cyber insurance, a rare single-contract model in Europe.
  • April 2026 Eye Log and complisec show product velocity around compliance and forensics.

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Funding

Total Funding

$128.7M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

4 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series C funding is usually for startups that are doing well and are looking for more money to fuel major growth, such as acquiring other companies, expanding into global markets, or launching new product lines. Investors typically include larger venture capital firms and private equity.
Series C Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

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Medium
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$66M
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$100M
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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Hybrid Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 0%

1 year growth

↓ -2%

2 year growth

↑ 5%
Citybiz
Sep 4th, 2026
Datamaran appoints Bert Sinnema CTO to lead AI product development.

Datamaran appoints Bert Sinnema CTO to lead AI product development. September 4, 2026 Datamaran has appointed Bert Sinnema as chief technology officer, putting the product engineering executive in charge of the risk and governance software provider's global engineering and product organization as it expands the use of artificial intelligence across its platform. Based at Datamaran's Leeuwarden office in the Netherlands, Sinnema will oversee teams that include the company's engineering hub in Valencia, Spain. His responsibilities span product vision and strategy, technology architecture, development and delivery, giving him oversight of both the technical roadmap and the teams responsible for executing it. The appointment comes as Datamaran shifts its positioning from ESG issue management toward a broader AI-powered governance platform. The company's software is designed to help organizations assess evolving risks, regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations, with AI increasingly used to turn those inputs into information that can support business decisions. Sinnema's mandate includes accelerating AI-driven product development while ensuring the underlying platform can handle a risk and regulatory environment that continues to change in scope and complexity. Bringing product and engineering leadership under the CTO role also places responsibility for strategy, architecture and delivery within a single organization. He joins Datamaran with more than 12 years of product engineering leadership experience across startups, scaling technology businesses and established software platforms, with a background spanning engineering, cybersecurity and AI. Most recently, Sinnema served as vice president of engineering at Eye Security, a European cybersecurity company. He built its product and engineering organization from the ground up and expanded its international, multi-hub team threefold. During his tenure, Eye Security reached a €60 million Series C financing round. Before joining Eye Security, Sinnema spent more than three years at HackerOne, the ethical hacking and bug bounty platform, where he advanced to director of engineering. That role added experience operating engineering teams around security products used to identify and manage software vulnerabilities. Earlier in his career, Sinnema founded secure communications and privacy platform SmartLockr and served as its CTO. He bootstrapped the business, expanded it across three countries and participated in Microsoft's Ventures Accelerator in Berlin. The combination of founder and engineering leadership experience gives him a background in both building technology organizations at an early stage and managing them as operational requirements expand. "Bert has spent his career building engineering organizations from the ground up and scaling them through some of the most demanding environments, including as a founder himself," Datamaran CEO and co-founder Marjella Lecourt-Alma said. She pointed to his experience developing teams, technology and organizational culture as particularly relevant as Datamaran broadens its platform beyond ESG issue management. For Datamaran, that transition increases the importance of coordinating product development with the technical infrastructure required to process risk, regulatory and stakeholder information at scale. Faster development alone is not the objective; the platform also has to translate increasingly complex inputs into usable insights while maintaining a product architecture that can evolve alongside customer requirements. Sinnema said his focus will be on the intersection of product engineering and AI, applying his experience scaling engineering and product organizations to Datamaran's risk-management platform. The CTO appointment gives Sinnema responsibility for turning that strategy into product execution, including decisions about architecture, development priorities and engineering capacity across Datamaran's European operations. As the company extends AI deeper into its governance software, his role will center on ensuring those capabilities translate into practical workflows for organizations managing changing risks and regulatory demands.

TTweb
Jun 30th, 2026
Eye Security closes $68M Series C to expand cyber defence across Europe

Eye Security, a European cybersecurity platform, has raised €60 million in a Series C round led by Belgian investment firm Sofina Group. Existing investors TIN Capital, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners participated, with TIN Capital significantly increasing its stake. Founded in 2020 by former Dutch intelligence officers, Eye Security now protects over 1,000 organisations across the Benelux and DACH regions. The company combines AI-powered detection with 24/7 human-led security operations and cyber insurance. The funding will accelerate AI-driven capabilities, expand engineering and threat intelligence teams with a focus on Germany, and support geographic expansion into new European markets. Eye Security operates entirely within the EU, keeping customer data GDPR-compliant and sovereign. The company differentiates itself by integrating existing security tools rather than forcing customers into a closed ecosystem.

Eye Security
May 28th, 2026
Eye Security brings MSPs and brokers together at first EMEA Partner Summit.

Eye Security brings MSPs and brokers together at first EMEA Partner Summit. May 28, 2026 By: Eye Security On 20 May, Eye Security convened its first EMEA Partner Summit in Eindhoven, bringing together managed service providers and broker partners from the Benelux and DACH for a day centred on a singular proposition: strong partnerships matter most when cybersecurity becomes more complex, more operational, and more consequential for customers. Cybersecurity, insurance and compliance are no longer separate conversations Held at Van der Valk Best, the summit combined strategy, product direction, threat research, and partner dialogue. The agenda moved between plenary sessions and practical breakouts, reflecting the partner ecosystem Eye Security serves: MSPs helping customers strengthen day-to-day cyber resilience, and brokers helping organisations understand and transfer cyber risk in a market being reshaped by regulation, identity threats, and AI. That dual perspective shaped the event. Rather than treating cybersecurity, compliance, and insurance as separate conversations, the summit focused on how they increasingly converge. For partners, mid-market customers do not experience risk in neat categories. They experience it as downtime, fraud, exposure, regulatory pressure, and business interruption. Partners need solutions that are operationally credible and commercially workable. Image 1. "Go beyond together" was the core message of the EMEA Partner Summit. Where partners create the most value The morning plenary opened with Eye Security's leadership outlining the company's direction for 2026, followed by a keynote from Chief Hacker Vaisha Bernard on vulnerability discovery and the persistent question of whether security budgets are being directed at the risks that matter most. The wider message was that organisations do not need more tooling or more dashboards but rather, that they need sharper prioritisation, better response capabilities, and partners who can help translate technical complexity into action. A pragmatic view of AI That same pragmatism carried into Eye Security's AI message, which was a central theme throughout the day. The company's position is deliberately restrained. AI is changing cybersecurity, but not in the simplistic terms often implied by the market. It is accelerating both attack and defence. Threat actors move faster than human teams can review every signal. At the same time, defenders can use AI to process telemetry, surface anomalies, support investigations, automate repeatable workflows and give analysts better starting points for judgement. You will find an overview of Eye Security's free AI tools and webinars here. Image 2. An overview of AI security tools Why human judgement still matters Eye Security's view is that the most useful model is neither fully manual nor fully autonomous. It is human-in-the-loop by design. This means traditional AI for pattern recognition and anomaly detection; generative AI for summarising alerts, drafting reports and explaining incidents; and agentic workflows for handling multi-step tasks with transparency into how actions are proposed and taken. The aim is not to remove analysts from the loop, but to equip them to work faster and with more context. Making AI a customer conversation For partners, that distinction is important as customers are increasingly asking not only how to adopt AI, but how to do so safely. Many are already facing a form of uncontrolled adoption through shadow AI: employees using public tools without governance, oversight or an understanding of what sensitive information may be exposed in the process. This is often where the conversation should begin. In many organisations, AI is already being used. The question here becomes whether it is being used responsibly. Join EYE for the live AMA partner session "AI in Cybersecurity: Ask Me Anything": Building around signal quality, speed and response Eye Security's answer is to help partners bring customers into that discussion in practical terms. Start with visibility. Establish basic guardrails. Focus on identity, data handling, logging, and incident readiness. Use free tools where that helps customers begin, and build toward managed adoption when the organisation is ready. Eye Security is also exploring managed EU inference in prototype form, reflecting a broader belief that sovereignty, control, and defensibility in AI are architectural choices rather than settings to be toggled on later. Image 3. "Protection that goes beyond" remains the Eye Security proposition From summit themes to partner action Several breakout sessions translated this thinking into partner opportunities. For brokers, discussions covered cyber insurance fundamentals, Eye Security's new cyber cover proposition, and the emerging implications of AI for risk assessment and insurability. For MSPs, the focus was on going beyond isolated controls: supporting leading EDR platforms that meet Eye Security's operational standards, strengthening identity protection at login, and turning logs into real security value rather than a compliance burden. Quality over quantity in security operations These sessions pointed to a broader product and partner strategy. Eye Security is prioritising quality over quantity: the quality, depth and speed of the data available to the SOC, and the speed with which that data can be turned into response. That is why the company does not aim to support every platform in the market. It supports the vendors and environments that meet the standards required for effective investigation and action. The next frontier: identity, machine identities and control Other themes included the growth of machine identities, the need for managed identity controls, the role of business email compromise protection, and the increasing importance of compliance as an operational discipline. Across all of them, the underlying message to partners was that customers need help connecting signals, decisions, and outcomes. What partners need now: clarity, credibility and execution The afternoon plenary closed with stories from the SOC and a partner awards ceremony, but perhaps the more lasting takeaway from Eindhoven was the tone of the event itself. Eye Security did not present AI as a silver bullet. The emphasis was on practical leverage: how to help partners advise, deliver with credibility, and support customers through a threat landscape that is becoming both faster and less forgiving. As AI changes the pace of cyber risk, the company's argument is that Europe needs more than new tools. It needs better operating models: cybersecurity that combines strong technology with accountable human judgement, and partnerships that help customers move from uncertainty to action. Let's talk. Curious to know how EYE can help?

Eye Security
Apr 23rd, 2026
Eye Security launches Eye Log to close the log retention gap for mid-market companies.

Eye Security launches Eye Log to close the log retention gap for mid-market companies. April 23, 2026 New log storage solution delivers 12-month EU-stored log retention, addressing forensic readiness and compliance gaps for regulated organisations The Hague, Netherlands, April 23, 2026 - Eye Security, a European leader in managed cybersecurity, today announced Eye Log, a log storage solution that enhances its Cyber Guard platform with EU-sovereign log retention. Eye Log delivers enterprise-grade forensic readiness and compliance confidence to businesses that do not want the cost or complexity of a traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system. The launch addresses a growing forensic and compliance gap that auditors and insurers are increasingly flagging: most endpoint detection tools capture only a narrow set of logs and retain them for just 14 to 90 days by default, leaving organisations both limited in log depth and forensically blind for the rest of the year. As regulatory requirements tighten across Europe, maintaining proportionate logging and monitoring controls is becoming inevitable. Cyber insurance renewals are also driving urgency. Insurers now frequently require proof of long-term log retention, something many IT teams cannot meet without significant infrastructure investment. Auditors report the same pattern: when an incident is discovered, the first question is always "Do you have logs from that period?" For most organisations, the answer is no, creating forensic gaps that block both incident investigations and compliance evidence. Eye Log closes this gap with two tiers tailored to different retention, retrieval, and forensic investigation needs: * Eye Log Comply: 12 months of cold storage with a 48-business-hour retrieval SLA, designed for organisations that need audit-ready log records without the cost or complexity of running a SIEM. * Eye Log Hybrid: 30 days of hot storage plus 11 months of cold archive, with a 24-business-hour retrieval SLA for hot data and 48-business-hour SLA for cold. Built for higher-risk environments and sectors where active incidents require fast access to historical data for forensic reconstruction alongside compliance coverage. "EYE see most organisations today trapped between two bad options: accept the forensic limitations of 14-90-day endpoint logs, or spend six figures on a SIEM that nobody has the time or resources to tune. But logs tell an important story, and when auditors ask for that evidence, it should simply be there. That's exactly why EYE built Eye Log. EYE understand the realities its customers face, and EYE designed Eye Log to meet their needs without the over-complexity that comes with many traditional solutions. And because it works in synergy with Cyber Guard, Eye Log delivers compliance confidence and investigation readiness from day one. Its goal at Eye Security is to give customers real peace of mind, not burden them with yet another 'fire-and-forget' tool." - Piet Kerkhofs, Chief Technology Officer, Eye Security Eye Log is sold exclusively as an add-on to Cyber Guard, priced by daily log volume. About Eye Security Eye Security helps small and medium-sized businesses identify cyber risks proactively and strengthen operational resilience. As one of Europe's leading MDR providers, the company blends advanced AI technology, expert guidance, and integrated cyber insurance into one cohesive solution. More than 850 organisations across Europe rely on this unified approach to safeguard their digital operations. www.eye.security

Eye Security
Apr 16th, 2026
Eye Security launches complisec, a compliance layer for AI agents in Europe.

Eye Security launches complisec, a compliance layer for AI agents in Europe. April 16, 2026 New open-source capability helps AI agents recognise compliance risks, apply guardrails, and escalate to humans in European business environments The Hague, April 16, 2026 - Eye Security today announced complisec, an open-source AI compliance layer designed to help AI agents and agentic workflows operate more safely in European environments. An open-source compliance layer for AI agents In many organisations, AI agents are already writing code, processing data, and making decisions without a clear understanding of what they are allowed to do. Many still lack awareness of the how European organisations operate. This creates a growing risk between what AI systems can do and what they should do. complisec is designed to close that gap. It can be easily activated as a layer on top of existing AI tools and platforms, like Copilot and ChatGPT, without requiring changes to the underlying systems. It enables AI to recognise risks, apply guardrails, and escalate decisions when human oversight is required. Addressing the gap between what AI can do and what it should do For example, an AI agent handling customer data may not recognise when that data should not be stored or moved outside the EU, or when a decision should be escalated instead of handled automatically. Complisec provides that awareness at the moment decisions are made. Based on its current scope, complisec is being designed to support areas such as: * Organisation-specific compliance enforcement * NIS2 gap analysis tools * GDPR data protection & secrets blocking * Audit logging & central compliance records * Incident management within NIS2 deadlines * Supplier & vendor risk assessment * Change management for critical assets Built for European regulatory and operational environments Most frontier AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, are designed to be broadly useful across markets, but are not built with specific regulatory environments like GDPR or NIS2 in mind. Complisec is designed to add that missing layer of European context on top. The goal is not to replace human oversight, but to enable decision-makers to make faster and better decisions with the help of AI. "AI agents are becoming more capable every month, but capability without context is risky," said Piet Kerkhofs, CTO of Eye Security. "European companies need AI agents that do not just move fast, but understand the operational and compliance environment they are working in. Complisec is an early step toward that future." Designed for practical use across existing AI platforms Eye Security is making complisec available as an open-source contribution to the wider cyber and builder community. The solution is designed for straightforward onboarding by both human users and AI agents across major platforms. By doing so, the company aims to accelerate the development of safer, more accountable AI systems across Europe. "We see a clear shift from experimentation to real operational use of AI," added Kerkhofs. "In incident response, the same questions always come up: what happened, what data was involved, and who made the decision. AI agents need to operate with that level of accountability. That's the gap we're addressing with complisec." Enabling more accountable AI systems across Europe Eye Security believes Europe has a unique opportunity to lead in building trustworthy, compliance-aware AI systems that reflect its regulatory and operational standards. As AI moves from experimentation into daily operations, the next phase of adoption will be defined not just by capability, but by responsibility. Complisec reflects that shift, embedding compliance, accountability, and escalation into AI-driven work. Not a replacement for a CISO, but a practical compliance layer for AI-driven work. About Eye Security Eye Security helps small and medium-sized businesses identify cyber risks proactively and strengthen operational resilience. As one of Europe's leading MDR providers, the company blends advanced AI technology, expert guidance, and integrated cyber insurance into one cohesive solution. More than 850 organisations across Europe rely on this unified approach to safeguard their digital operations. www.eye.security

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