CyberKord has secured €2.7M in pre-seed funding to develop an AI platform designed to handle IT and security tasks without waiting for a person, such as patching a newly disclosed software flaw or locking down a hacked account. Venture firm 360 Capital led the round, and Plus Partners, Addendum Capital and Turin-based early-stage investor Vento also took part.
Chief executive Alessandro Maggio founded the company in Milan this year with Dragos Tanasa and Cosimo Michelagnoli. The money will go towards product development, a larger technical and sales team, and the startup’s first pilot projects with large European companies in manufacturing, technology, healthcare and telecommunications.
Maggio pointed to the routine workload now facing IT and security staff. “Companies add infrastructure, software and AI agents every week, and operational work grows faster than any team,” he said. “As a result, the time of expert professionals ends up in patches, access requests and incidents, one ticket at a time.”
How The Platform Works
CyberKord picks up work from security alerts, support tickets or messages in Microsoft Teams and Slack. From there, the platform builds a live virtual copy of the customer’s IT systems, known as a digital twin, to see which machines and accounts an issue affects.
When the task involves a newly found software weakness, the platform keeps only the flaws that attackers could exploit in that environment. It then tests a fix on the copy and applies the change only when the customer’s rules permit.
Customers decide how much freedom to give the AI. In the most cautious setting, the platform only reports what it would have done. Customers can instead have it demonstrate a fix in simulation and wait for a person’s approval, or let it act alone once it has built up a record of safe outcomes. Every step is logged in a form the team can read and check.
The platform comes as a single self-contained software package, known as a container, that runs in a customer’s cloud or on the customer’s own servers and starts with read-only access. CyberKord says it works alongside existing tools rather than replacing them.
The company’s website lists tasks such as ranking newly disclosed software flaws by risk, responding to threat alerts, cutting off every way into a compromised account and granting or removing access as staff join or leave.
“We built an artificial intelligence that does that work on its own, from start to finish, and shows every step,” Maggio said. “The team chooses how far to let it act and takes back time for architecture, projects and the decisions it was hired for.”
Backers And The Wider Market
CyberKord’s website says the startup received investment from 360 Capital’s 360 Digitaly fund, which draws on money from Italy’s national recovery plan. Vento’s second fund is chaired by John Elkann, who heads Exor, the Agnelli family’s holding company.
Other young companies are also putting AI agents, software that carries out tasks by itself, to work on security. Paris startup Fleuret AI raised €4M last month for agents that stage simulated attacks, known as penetration tests, to find weak spots in a company’s defences. In the United States, AvalonX sells AI-driven hacking tests to smaller firms. CyberKord’s focus is on carrying out the fix inside a customer’s own systems.
For now, the funding will take the Milan startup from its founding year to its first pilots with large European companies. CyberKord’s pitch asks businesses to hand routine IT and security fixes to AI gradually, keeping a person in control until they decide the system can act alone.
