Spanish security startup 8Layers has announced closing a $1.1 million pre-seed extension round that brings the total raised by the company in early-stage investment to $2.9 million.
The fresh funding came from Criteria Venture Tech and Bankinter. Previous backers include JME Ventures, which led the initial pre-seed investment round, Lanai Ventures, Draper B1, and Secways.
Madrid-based 8Layers provides a digital identity protection platform that combines Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), and automated compliance with multiple European frameworks.
Leveraging API connections to identity providers such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and AWS IAM, the solution inventories human, service account, API, and AI identities spread across cloud services and disconnected tools.
8Layers correlates behavior across sources to provide a dedicated risk score for each identity, surfacing threats in real time. The platform also provides dormancy detection and containment actions.
According to the company, its solution can detect identity kill chains by correlating signals over time and adding context. It also maps identity controls to frameworks that continuously validate them.
The startup will use the new investment to strengthen its go-to-market strategy and to accelerate expansion across Europe.
“We have just launched the platform commercially, and we are very proud to welcome two strategic partners who know first-hand the problem we solve. Their entry is not just an investment: it is confirmation, from within the financial sector itself, that digital identity security is now a top-level priority,” said 8Layers co-founder and CEO Daniel Garcia Moran.
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