The Luxembourg startup will join the cybersecurity branch of Google’s Growth Academy for three months of hands-on programming and workshops. It is one of only 15 European startups selected for this prestigious programme.
Since the pandemic, cybersecurity has become an increasingly important topic for companies and countries across the world. As Europe is considering cybersecurity a top priority, Google has committed its support, part of which includes its Google for Startups Growth Academy: Cybersecurity.
Chosen from more than 120 applications, Google has selected 15 startups from eight countries that are already making important contributions in the region and beyond. Joining their three-month programme, the Luxembourg startup passbolt will gain valuable support and be provided with the best of Google’s tools, best practices and connections.
In addition to three months of hands-on programming and workshops, the 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.
The full list of participants:
- 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”.
For more information on the programme, see here.
