WiseBee, headquartered in New York with R&D center in Sofia, has raised $2.5 (€2.14) million in pre-seed funding from Frontline Ventures and BrightCap Ventures to scale its AI-powered cyber defense platform, which autonomously monitors, detects and fixes threats for mid-sized organisations.
👯 Founders: Stoyan Stoyanov (CEO) and Taha Kazi (CDO)
📅 Founding year: 2024
🏭 Industry: Cybersecurity
💥 Problem: Mid-sized organizations face enterprise-level threats but lack the tools, talent, or budgets to respond effectively. Existing cybersecurity tools are reactive, alert-heavy, and built for large enterprises.
📣 Solution: WiseBee offers an autonomous, AI-powered cybersecurity platform that monitors, detects, and remediates threats in real time — acting like an on-demand security team for mid-sized organizations.
👥 Customers: A local US government as well as fintech, banking, and space tech institutions across Europe.
🌱 Stage: Pre-seed
💰 Investment amount: $2.5 (€2.14) million
🚀 Funded by: Frontline Ventures, BrightCap Ventures, a US-based investment firm, and strategic angel investors (CEOs & CISOs of unicorns)
👁️🗨️ Investor’s perspective: “AI-native agents that go beyond alerts to deliver full remediation… We’re excited to back them as they scale across Europe and the US.” — Zoe Chambers, Partner at Frontline Ventures
“Cybersecurity is no longer just about alerts; it’s about intelligent context and autonomous action.” — Dimitar Korsakov, Principal at BrightCap Ventures
💡 It will be spent on: Enhancing platform autonomy, expanding integrations, growing product and engineering teams, laying groundwork for next funding round, building a community-driven approach to cybersecurity.
💬 In their own words:
“Most cybersecurity tools are reactive, siloed, and designed for large enterprises with hefty budgets. We are building something fundamentally different: an autonomous system of security agents that detect and mitigate risks 24/7.” — Stoyan Stoyanov, CEO
💪 Their specialty: Combining cybersecurity leadership with breakthrough AI/machine learning to enable autonomous threat detection and remediation.
🔑 Business model: B2B SaaS — Autonomous cybersecurity platform targeting mid-sized organizations in regulated sectors.
👩🏫 Market: $60B+ market opportunity among mid-sized companies (200–2,000 employees) in regulated sectors like finance, fintech, healthcare, and digital identity.
📊 Traction:
– Deployed across public and private sectors in Europe and the US;
– Active customers in government, fintech, banking, aerospace;
– Real-time threat resolution reduces response time from days to hours;
