Milan-based Cleafy, a cybersecurity company focused on
the banking sector, has raised €12 million in a Series B funding round co-led
by United Ventures and eCAPITAL, bringing the company’s total funding to €22
million.
Traditional security and anti-fraud systems often
operate in silos, analysing isolated signals or individual transactions using
predefined rules. As a result, banks frequently respond to fraud only after it
has occurred, leading to financial losses, operational disruption, and
reputational risks. Many attacks, however, could potentially be prevented if
the underlying infrastructure and intent behind them were identified earlier.
Cleafy aims to address this challenge with a platform
designed to analyse how attacks originate, evolve, and spread across digital
channels and internal systems. By combining data from web, mobile, backend, and
network sources with real-time threat intelligence, the platform identifies
malicious infrastructure, attacker behaviour, and emerging attack patterns at
an early stage.
With the introduction of Cleafy for Workforce, the
company has also extended this approach to detecting insider threats and
compromised accounts within corporate environments.
While fraudsters weaponize AI to scale attacks at
machine speed, European banks are fighting back with outdated, reactive tools.
We built Cleafy to change this equation fundamentally, reconstructing how
attacks form and stopping them weeks before they can cause damage. Our zero
customer churn over more than a decade proves this approach works,
said Matteo Bogana, CEO and co-founder at Cleafy.
The funding round comes as new European regulations,
including the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and cybersecurity
requirements introduced under NIS2, raise expectations for digital resilience
across the financial sector.
With
the new investment, Cleafy plans to accelerate the development of its
predictive security capabilities, expand global threat analysis, and strengthen
its presence in key banking markets across Europe and Latin America.