Spain’s Zepo Intelligence Secures €12.8 Million To Combat AI-Driven Human Cyber Risks

Investors included Kibo Ventures, eCAPITAL, and TIN Capital. The funds will support global expansion of Zepo’s technology and growth of its team, particularly in data engineering and AI roles.

“AI is the core of our platform. For engineers looking to develop their careers at the frontier of AI and cybersecurity, Zepo offers the ideal environment to build technology with global impact,” explained Enrique Holgado, CPTO and co-founder of Zepo.

Founded in 2021 by Antonio Muñoz and Enrique Holgado, Zepo Intelligence is a cybersecurity startup offering the first agentic social intelligence platform for workspace security. It simulates AI-driven social engineering attacks such as deepfakes, voice calls, cross-platform messages and personalized phishing to identify human vulnerabilities.

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The platform provides behavior-adapted metrics and training to strengthen employee resilience. Highlighting the risks of generative AI Zepo notes that social engineering attacks have surged 1,200% since ChatGPT’s launch causing over $1 trillion in global losses in 2024.

Antonio Muñoz, CEO and co-founder of Zepo Intelligence, explained, “Artificial Intelligence has turned social engineering into one of the biggest challenges society faces today. As attackers have exploited generative AI and moved to multi-vector personalised attacks on employees, traditional cybersecurity – focused on isolated training tools and email filters – no longer provides the needed protection. Zepo responds to this gap by leading Agentic Social Intelligence for Workspace Security.

“The most serious security failures today don’t begin with systems. They begin with people. Organisations need defences that understand human behaviour in real time not incident reports after the damage is done. Zepo’s platform goes beyond training and simulations by combining human risk management with live threat detection. In a world where employees can’t reliably spot deepfakes or AI-crafted manipulation, protection has to show up in the moment. Just before a message turns into a transfer, a credential leak, or a breach. The result is a unified, proactive layer that helps protect employees across the channels where modern work actually happens.”

Zepo Intelligence, founded in Southern Europe, operates with teams across New York, Madrid, Tel Aviv and Mexico City. The startup has achieved 5× year-over-year revenue growth and plans to expand its team and operations in Europe and the US over the next 18 months.

Recognized by Google as one of the 15 most innovative cybersecurity and AI startups globally, Zepo continues to scale its agentic social intelligence platform, helping organizations defend against AI-driven social engineering attacks.