Startups join Google for Startups Growth Academy: Cybersecurity

Google has announced the startups selected for the Google for Startups Growth Academy: Cybersecurity.

Chosen from more than 120 applications, these 15 European startups represent eight countries and are already making important contributions in the region and beyond — from securing health apps to defending educators to protecting the clean water supply chain. Google will help them advance their work by providing the best of Google’s tools, best practices and connections:

Alice Biometrics (Spain): Galician startup awarded for identity verification software built on a proprietary AI engine.
Astran (France): Paris-based Confidential Data Cloud solution that enables companies to unlock cloud adoption without encryption keys.

BlackDice (UK / Spain): Company with roots in Leeds and Málaga that helps telco operators protect their subscribers from cyber attacks using machine learning and predictive tech to identify patterns.

Build38 (Germany / Spain): Münich-Barcelona company that provides mobile app protection solutions, combining AI and the strongest shielding technology — and serving customers from the financial sector to public transport to health care.

CrowdSec (France): Paris-based threat intelligence company that offers participative behavioral protection from malicious IP addresses.

Cryptr (France): Lille-based company that offers a plug-and-play authentication platform enabling software to manage all authentication strategies, like single sign-on, with just a few lines of code.

eID Easy (Estonia): Marketplace of qualified electronic signature APIs connecting document workflow platforms to worldwide certificate authorities with one single integration and contract.

Elemendar (UK): London-based company building AI that reads cyber threat reports by humans and turns them into industry-standard structured information.

GoodAccess (Czechia): Global cybersecurity platform for the age of remote working, which brings to the world the simplest way to deploy Zero Trust Network Access.

Nymiz (Spain): Bilbao startup offers AI-based personal data anonymization software — enabling you to “protect your data while unlocking its value.”

Passbolt (Luxembourg): Company serving 15,000 organizations worldwide — “including F500 companies, the defense industry, universities” — which builds an open-source, enterprise password manager.

Risk Ledger (UK): London-based provider of supply chain security monitoring software that aims to improve the “security maturity” of the global supply chain ecosystem.

Secfense (Poland): Krakow-based startup that facilitates the adoption of MFA in big organizations thanks to code-less integration that takes minutes instead of weeks or months.

Secjur (Germany): Hamburg-based provider of AI-based compliance tools that aims to put compliance, data protection, information security and whistleblowing “on autopilot”.

Sentryc (Germany): Berlin-based provider of brand protection software that works to monitor and “stop product piracy on the internet”.

In addition to three months of hands-on programming and workshops, this cohort will have access to mentoring sessions with experts at Google, including former startups VirusTotal (acquired in 2012) and Mandiant (2022). And they will be able to network with other cybersecurity entrepreneurs at convenings this year in Europe.

“In our work with European decision-makers and partners over the past year, cybersecurity has been a near-constant topic of conversation. And for good reason. All across the continent, cyber threats have grown more costly and aggressive, a trend further exacerbated by the first European war in decades. Russian-backed cyber attacks against people in NATO member states quadrupled in 2022, according to a report (“Fog of War”) we released at the Munich Security Conference last month,” said Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security, Google.

He added that Europe’s leaders are aiming to meet the moment by putting cybersecurity at the center of the region’s digital transformation. “We have committed Google’s full support to helping, and it's part of keeping more people safe online than anyone else in the world. Core to that success has been our understanding that good security is built on collaboration,” added Hansen.