Cyber security awareness services specialist SoSafe is expanding across Europe, after the German firm secured $73m in a Series B funding round, led by Highland Europe this January.
The company's awareness platform relies on behavioural psychology, user engagement, customer focus and data, to provide corporate training solutions to help prevent cyber crime in the office and hybrid working environments.
The company is now expanding its business to four regions, including Benelux, the Nordics, Southern Europe and the United Kingdom and Ireland. Four new offices, led by newly appointed regional leaders, are being opened in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, London and Paris.
By the end of the year, the company aims to grow to around 500 employees across all its offices.
“Having secured market leadership in the DACH market, we are now planning to extend this leadership across Europe,” said Niklas Hellemann, founder and managing director of SoSafe. “We focus on the human factor by building our product on behavioural science and developing it with scientists based on actual data. In doing so, we support companies in minimising cyber risks by activating their 'human firewall' – and will soon do so worldwide.” Hellemann is a qualified psychologist.
SoSafe has brought onboard four experienced executives from the B2B and SaaS sectors. Bas van Erk will be responsible for the Benelux and Nordics regions, and Rohit Gami is heading up the UK and Ireland market. Expansion in Southern Europe will be led by Jean-Baptiste Roux, and Oscar Trelles will be responsible for all markets outside Europe, as senior director for global sales.
Founded in Cologne, Germany in 2018, SoSafe says it currently serves more than 1,500 customers worldwide.
Picture: From left to right: Rohit Gami, Oscar Trelles, Jean-Baptiste Roux and Bas van Erk
