Sekoia.io is a French scale-up providing security operation centers (SOCs) with a platform that can respond to security incidents and cyber-attacks. This member of our Digital Security & Trust group aims to modernize security operation teams, with SOC analysts as the primary users of its product.
The company’s Chief Technology Officer Georges Bossert told us that Sekoia's core strength lies in its sophisticated cyber threat intelligence. Combining advanced methodologies with cutting-edge technology and real-time detection capabilities, Sekoia focuses on producing high-quality intelligence on emerging cyber threats. This expertise in the threat landscape is highly regarded within the cyber-security market.
Sekoia recognizes that cyber-attacks often originate from less critical areas before escalating to critical systems. This highlights the need for comprehensive cyber-security across the entire organization, not just critical assets. However, legacy systems can hinder the scalability and exhaustiveness of these security operations. To address this challenge, Sekoia has developed a product designed to enable security teams to apply their expertise and knowledge across the entire organization.
Sekoia as we know it now was founded in 2022, and today it boasts a team of over 100 professionals. With its headquarters in Brittany, France, Sekoia maintains a European presence, connecting talent across the continent.
Sekoia has made significant strides in AI-powered cyber-security solutions. Recognizing the critical need for secure and reliable AI within the cyber-security domain, Sekoia invested heavily in developing and deploying its own AI-driven platform – SOC analyst. This platform, designed with robust data security measures to protect sensitive customer information, has been well-received by Sekoia's user base.
In 2024, Sekoia's rapid growth was recognized by Sifted, which listed the company among Europe's 250 fastest-growing startups. This prestigious ranking highlights companies demonstrating exceptional revenue growth over the past three years. Reflecting this impressive trajectory, Sekoia has successfully secured two rounds of funding in recent years: a €10 million seed round followed by a €35 million Series A round, demonstrating strong investor confidence in the company's potential.
Scaling a business presents numerous challenges, and Sekoia has encountered its fair share. These challenges have provided valuable learning experiences and fueled the company's continued growth. For example, Sekoia successfully transitioned from a service provider to a vendor – a significant challenge that required a fundamental shift in company culture. This transition was crucial for Sekoia's success, as a vendor mindset is essential for crafting and delivering a compelling product.
An ongoing challenge that Sekoia faces is international expansion – this process presents significant challenges, including navigating cultural differences and adapting operational models to suit new markets.
Besides France and Benelux countries, Sekoia's key target markets include Italy, Spain, and North Africa. In 2023-2024, the company successfully entered the Middle East, establishing a local presence. This expansion unexpectedly opened doors to the Asian market, including Japan and Malaysia. In 2025, Sekoia plans to focus on expanding into Northern Europe.
For Sekoia, 2022 was a year of significant growth. In 2023, the focus shifted to retention and user adoption, ensuring customer satisfaction and long-term engagement. The year 2024 was dedicated to optimizing efficiency and streamlining operations. Building upon the successes of 2024, Sekoia aims to maintain this momentum and achieve, at minimum, the same level of success in 2025.
A key milestone for Sekoia has been its significant success in securing corporate clients. Recognizing the potential within this market, Sekoia identified Large Service Providers (LSPs), such as Orange and British Telecom, as a key target segment in 2023-2024. This strategic focus proved successful, as Sekoia discovered that LSPs share many characteristics with large corporate enterprises, leading to successful product deployments with companies like Danone.
Sekoia has also achieved significant success in collaborating with law enforcement agencies worldwide. Through its intelligence investigations, Sekoia has successfully identified and disrupted various cybercriminal groups. These collaborations have included partnerships with renowned organizations such as the FBI, NATO, and Europol.
Sekoia's internal plans center around expanding its platform capabilities. In 2024, the company invested significantly in its platform architecture, resulting in a unified platform with two distinct modules: Defend and Intelligence. While some customers currently use a single module, others leverage both, demonstrating the platform's flexibility. Building upon this success, Sekoia plans to introduce additional modules in 2025, further enhancing its platform's value and expanding its offerings to customers.
As Sekoia navigates its international expansion, Georges emphasizes the value of the EIC Scaling Club, highlighting the benefits of leveraging a broader European network:
“At Sekoia, we thrive as an ecosystem player. Our mission to federate support for SOC analysts drives us to collaborate, even with competitors, fostering a network of peers. We cherish this collaborative spirit, recognizing the immense value of shared knowledge and experience. So when we heard about the EIC Scaling Club, we didn't hesitate about joining.”
The EIC Scaling Club is a curated community where 120+ European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators and other industry stakeholders to spur growth.
The top 120+ European deep tech companies will be carefully selected from a pool of high-growth scale-ups that have benefitted from EIC financial schemes, other European and national innovation programmes, and beyond.
The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership by Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.
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