
Clearwater International
9 Colmore Row, Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 2BJ, United Kingdom
Overview
Coordinating as a single team, our 130 experienced professionals have been responsible for the successful completion of over 600 deals worth in excess of €14bn.; in the last ten years over half of these have had transaction values between €10m and €200m. Working alongside directors, shareholders and investors we advise on all aspects of corporate finance from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and company sales through to management buy-outs (MBOs) and fundraising transactions.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Financial Services
Investment portfolio
- ANOZR WAY
Led · Series A · Mar 2024
Anozr Way builds tools to detect and remediate social‑engineering attacks by evaluating and managing the digital footprint of employees and company leaders. The platform reproduces the reconnaissance phase used by cybercriminals to identify the most exposed people within an organization. Its solutions enable CISOs and IT security teams to assess, supervise and reduce risk, while allowing employees to remediate their own exposure. The company was awarded the Startup prize at FIC 2023. Financially, Anozr Way completed a €6M Series A following an initial €2M round in 2021. It plans to recruit 30 people this year and push international development, prioritizing opening offices in Montreal and then the United States. Anozr Way develops a cyberdefense platform that combines artificial intelligence and open-source intelligence to predict and correct human-centered cyber risks, notably social engineering. The solution enables company leaders to anticipate and manage human vulnerabilities that attackers exploit and provides employees tools to protect their professional and personal digital lives. The founders, Alban Ondrejeck (former French intelligence officer) and Philippe Luc (former insurance executive), launched the company in 2019 and operate from Rennes. The startup highlights that human-exploited flaws account for 63% of cyberattacks and centers its product development on that vector. With the new funding, Anozr Way plans to accelerate deployment, improve its AI performance, and expand its data-referencing and multi-source analysis capabilities. The product positioning targets organizations seeking to strengthen defenses against increasingly common social-engineering attacks.