Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks>
Tech Crunch – Romain Dillet
French startup Riot has raised a $12 million Series A round to iterate on its all-in-one cybersecurity awareness platform for businesses and their employees. The startup originally focused on fake phishing campaigns. It now also offers customized educational content that can help grow the cybersecurity culture in your team.

While it is still quite difficult to raise a funding round in the current economic environment, Riot managed to put together an interesting list of investors. Base10, a San Francisco-based VC firm that previously invested in flagship startup names like Figma, Notion and CircleCI, led todayâs funding round.

Some angels with a technical and operational background also invested in the round, such as Snykâs founder Guy Podjarny, Duolingoâs co-founder Severin Hacker, Supercellâs co-founder Ilkka Paananen, Deelâs co-founder Alex Bouaziz and Slackâs CPO Tamar Yehoshua. Some of Riotâs existing investors also put more money on the table, such as Y Combinator, Funders Club and Founders Future.

Riotâs main interface is a chatbot called Albert. It is available on Slack, Microsoft Teams or through a web interface. Each course is interactive and the content changes dynamically depending on each employeeâs cybersecurity knowledge.

Riot recently passed the $2 million milestone in annual recurring revenue. Overall, Riot reaches 100,000 employees across its clients like Y Combinator, Deel, Intercom and Le Monde. But the startup thinks cybersecurity is going to change drastically in the coming years and modern attacks are just getting started.
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/07/riot-prepares-your-team-against-highly-sophisticated-cyberattacks/