French security startup BforeAI raises $15M for US expansion and service enhancement

French predictive security startup BforeAI today announced it has raised $15 million in new funding to supercharge its U.S. expansion and enhance its services.

Founded in 2020 as Predimya SAS and a graduate of the Google for Startups Growth Academy, BforeAI offers a platform that autonomously maps and predicts malicious infrastructure. It does so by analyzing massive datasets and internet metadata and establishing baselines to detect anomalies before they turn into attacks. The capability gives customers a preemptive active defense posture that the company says enables security teams to stop attacks before they are executed.

BforeAI’s core focus is predictive attack intelligence and automated digital risk protection services. The company’s mission is to safeguard data, information and operational technology networks, digital assets, customers, employees and brand reputation proactively. It says its behavioral predictive intelligence, called PreCrime, monitors over 96% of the internet to stay ahead of cyberthreats, allowing organizations to preempt risks days to weeks in advance of an attack.

The BforeAI PreCrime subscription service includes intelligence and brand solutions designed to predict, preempt and deter malicious campaigns before they affect a business. The learning technology constantly improves anomaly identification while reducing false positives below 0.05%, enabling organizations to stop attacks in less than seven minutes, the company claims.

While still relatively young, BforeAI is already seeing strong growth, with customers including large social media platforms, financial services organizations and global manufacturers in the medical device, food service and home electronics industries.

SYN Ventures Management LLC led the Series A round, with early investors Karma Ventures LLC, Karista SAS, Addendum Capital Inc. and new investor, the Partnership Fund for New York City, also participating.

“This new round of funding boosts our ability to serve ever more sophisticated customers and drive value in a competitive market,” said Chief Executive Luigi Lenguito. “Increasing digital fraud, scams and cyberattacks prove organizations can no longer rely only on a reactive approach: they need to preempt, disrupt and deter attacks.”

Jay Leek, co-founder and managing partner of SYN Ventures and BforeAI board member, said BforeAI offers “clear differentiators in this crowded market.”

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