Exein Secures €100 Million in Latest Funding Round to Accelerate Global Expansion
Exein, a European startup specializing in embedded cybersecurity for connected devices, has successfully secured €100 million in new funding, elevating its total for 2025 to a remarkable €170 million. This substantial investment underscores the company’s ambitions for broader global outreach.
The funding round was spearheaded by Blue Cloud Ventures, with significant contributions from HV Capital, Intrepid Growth Partners, Geodesic Capital, and J.P. Morgan.
This funding comes on the heels of Exein’s €70 million Series C round in July 2025. The company reports that its valuation has nearly doubled, a surge attributed to fierce commercial growth and an increasing demand for device-level security solutions, rather than traditional network-centric defenses.
Exein specializes in embedded cybersecurity that integrates directly within the devices themselves. Its hardware-agnostic platform now safeguards over 1.5 billion devices spanning sectors such as energy, healthcare, defense, automotive, aerospace, industrial automation, semiconductors, and robotics.
By the end of Q1 2026, Exein anticipates that this number will surpass 2 billion, fueled by new deployments and intensified regulatory pressures.
The company has seen particularly swift expansion beyond Europe, with the Asia-Pacific region now contributing nearly 50% of its revenue following fruitful partnerships with manufacturers and chipset providers, including Mediatek and Kontron.
Exein inaugurated a new office in Taipei in early 2026, reporting a remarkable fivefold year-on-year revenue growth across its operations.
The €100 million capital infusion encompasses both equity and a financing arrangement facilitated by J.P. Morgan.
Exein intends to utilize these funds to further penetrate the APAC and US markets, pursue multiple mergers and acquisitions in Europe and the US throughout 2026, and support the launch of a new generation of embedded runtime security technologies.
This initiative includes safeguarding on-device AI and large language models executing directly on connected hardware.
Cyber threats have transcended data centers, now targeting hospitals, airports, transport networks, and supply chains, often through compromised edge devices.
Manufacturers are increasingly embedding protective measures directly into firmware, moving away from perimeter controls that rely on stable connectivity.
Exein’s platform employs AI-driven runtime security integrated within the devices. The software offers real-time behavior monitoring, anomaly detection, and threat containment, even when devices function offline.
As highlighted by Beinsure analysts monitoring device vulnerability, this strategy aligns with the actual failure mechanisms of connected systems in operational contexts, rather than merely reflecting their architectural blueprints.
This model facilitates integrity checks throughout supply chains and ensures compliance with evolving regulations, including RED 3.3, the forthcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act, and the US Cyber Trust Mark.
Currently, connected devices represent the fastest-evolving attack surface worldwide, positioning Exein as the preeminent provider of embedded runtime security based on the number of protected devices.
Gianni Cuozzo, Founder and CEO, remarked that this latest funding round signifies the rapid scaling the company has experienced over the past year.
He pointed specifically to expansions in the US and Asia-Pacific, stating this investment allows Exein to accelerate its initiatives in 2026, bolster its acquisition strategy, and unveil what he characterizes as the most substantial technical advancement in the field in nearly a decade.
Caesar Chuang, Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan, emphasized that this extension enhances Exein’s momentum in the region, paving the way for continued growth in 2026 through new partnership developments linked to the Taipei office launch.
This extension reflects Exein’s expanding influence across the Asia-Pacific market, setting the stage for ongoing growth in 2026 alongside our new Taipei office and a myriad of potential partnerships.
Caesar Chuang, VP Exein
Rami Rahal, Founder and Managing Partner at Blue Cloud Ventures, observed that cyberattacks increasingly ripple into the physical domain, advocating for the integration of real-time defense mechanisms within devices, which aligns with contemporary threat profiles.
He characterized Exein’s technology as offering infrastructure-grade security rather than merely another layer of monitoring.
Max Hauer from J.P. Morgan noted that securing connected devices is now integral to the stability of modern infrastructure. He expressed strong support for Exein as it embarks on its next phase of global expansion, where scalability and execution become paramount.
Source link: Beinsure.com.
