European Cybersecurity Startup Netsec Secures Over €8.93 Million in Equity Funding

The funding round was led by Partech, a Paris-based venture capital firm. Primo Capital and View Different, the investment vehicle of former Amazon executive Diego Piacentini, also participated in the round.

Netsec also has several other investors, including Riccardo Zacconi, Kima Ventures, Ithaca Investments, Vento, Vito Lomele and Everywhere Ventures. A group of angel investors from the cybersecurity and technology industries also took part in the funding.

“We built Netsec so mid-market companies get the security and IT operations of a much larger organisation without having to build them in-house. Today, after just a year of activity, we manage thousands of endpoints for clients across Europe and the United States. We run an incident response retainer with a median response time under 14 minutes across thousands of tickets received as of today,” said Varisco, co-founder and CEO, Netsec.

“Managed services have always scaled with headcount. Netsec breaks that link, pairing a single operator with automation that absorbs the volume work. The team at Netsec has the operating depth to make the model hold as it grows. That is a rare combination and we are pleased to join the founders in their journey,” said Réza Malekzadeh, General Partner, Partech.

Netsec was founded in 2025 by Gianluca Varisco and Guglielmo Reina, who first worked together at Rocket Internet. Varisco later led security at Arduino and Italy’s Digital Transformation Team before joining Google Cloud as a Principal Security Architect.

Reina moved into technology investing, working with Global Founders Capital and 468 Capital. Together, the founders bring experience in cybersecurity, technology and building fast-growing companies.

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