Security Startups

Security startups in France

Security companies headquartered in France.

5 of 205 listed companies · ordered by name · no paid placement

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Latest round

  • Series A3
  • Bootstrapped1
  • Series C1

A

Aevral

Listed by Better ISMS (same rules as everyone)

  • Bootstrapped
  • Founded 2026

Security review, handled. Your AI agents keep shipping; Aevral, a security agent, reviews their changes for security problems and suggests the fix, on pull requests and whole-repo scans, live and self-serve. Open-source models, processed in the US today; an EU-only option is announced. By ISMS Copilot.

Live and self-serve at aevral.com, 2026-09-07

E

Escape

Paris, France

  • Series A
  • $22M+ raised
  • Founded 2020

AI pentesting for APIs and web apps that proves exploitability, including IDOR and business logic, not just crawler noise.

Raised $18M to expand agentic pentesting for APIs and business logic, March 2026

G

GitGuardian

Paris, France

  • Series C
  • $108M raised
  • Founded 2017

Secrets detection plus NHI lifecycle, from leaked keys in git to the agents still using them.

Raised $50M Series C led by Insight Partners, February 2026

H

HarfangLab

Paris, France

  • Series A
  • $33M raised
  • Founded 2018

ANSSI-certified French EDR for buyers who cannot put a US cloud agent on sensitive endpoints.

Added Attack Surface Management to its endpoint platform, September 2025

Q

Qevlar AI

Paris, France

  • Series A
  • $45M raised
  • Founded 2023

European agentic SOC that turns every alert investigation into posture insight.

Raised $30M co-led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International, March 2026

5 companies. Catalog last reviewed 2026-08-23. Counts come from the live catalog. Ordered by name. No paid placement.