watchTowr builds a Continuous Automated Red Teaming platform that simulates attacker behavior to create a real-time attacker’s view of organizations and continuously identify and validate exploitable vulnerabilities. The product is backed by watchTowr Labs, which performs threat and vulnerability R&D and has publicly reproduced severe 2024 vulnerabilities and demonstrated compromises of portions of Internet infrastructure. The company says it has seen significant adoption from critical infrastructure and Fortune 500 customers. watchTowr will use the new funding to capture market leadership and accelerate global growth by expanding its go-to-market, research, and engineering teams. The company was founded by Benjamin Harris, a hacker-turned-entrepreneur with 14 years of industry experience. watchTowr is a Singapore-based cybersecurity startup offering a proprietary platform that gives organizations a continuous, real-time view of their external attack surface through the eyes of a sophisticated attacker. The platform codifies attacker tactics and techniques by leveraging data analysis and interrogation within an agile technology framework to mimic how real attackers break into organizations. Led by CEO Benjamin Harris, watchTowr has identified high-impact and critical weaknesses across banks, financial services, insurance companies, ecommerce and technology brands at scale. Since November 2021 the company has proven its technology across those sectors. The company will use the new funding to continue enhancing its underlying technology and to pursue growth opportunities outside Southeast Asia. It expects to raise a Series A in 2023. watchTowr is a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that offers a Continuous Attack Surface Testing (CAST) solution and the watchTowr Platform. The platform combines cutting-edge technology with certified ex-adversary expertise to deliver continuous visibility and holistic security assurance beyond traditional penetration testing and bug bounties. watchTowr publicly launched its CAST solution and reports it is being leveraged by prominent enterprises across Southeast Asia in banking, insurance, fintech and technology. The company is CREST-accredited and led by founder and CEO Benjamin Harris, an experienced offensive cybersecurity practitioner. watchTowr intends to use the seed funding to scale the CAST solution, further develop the platform, and expand its team of cybersecurity practitioners.

Total raised

$29M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Oct 2024