Dawnguard Raises €2.8 Mn in Pre-Seed Round led by BNVT Capital

The round was led by existing investor BNVT Capital, with new participation from Curiosity VC and eCAPITAL.

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With this latest investment, Dawnguard has now raised more than €5.5 million ($6.3 million) in total funding.

“Cybersecurity has become trapped in an endless cycle of detection, response, and patching,” says Mahdi Abdulrazak, CEO and co-founder of Dawnguard. “For twenty years, security was something you added later. That model was already fragile. Today, against an attacker running at machine speed, it becomes increasingly indefensible. When probing is continuous and cheap, the only thing that holds is what was designed correctly from the start.”

“Every engineering team understands the gap between what was designed and what ultimately gets deployed,” adds Kim van Lavieren, CTO and co-founder of Dawnguard. “That gap is where risk lives. Dawnguard closes the distance between intent and reality by turning architecture into enforceable code, continuously validating that systems remain aligned with their original security design. Security should not exist in documents, spreadsheets, or diagrams. It should exist in the systems themselves.”

Founded in 2025 by Mahdi Abdulrazak and Kim van Lavieren, Dawnguard aims to improve cybersecurity by helping companies build secure systems from the very beginning of their projects.

The company offers an AI-powered cybersecurity platform designed to create secure cloud architectures from the start.

Its platform uses AI and automation during the early design stage and continues to protect and manage cloud systems throughout their entire lifecycle.