CyberKord raises €2.7M pre-seed to let AI fix IT and security problems

CyberKord, a Milan startup founded in 2026, raised €2.7 million in pre-seed funding led by 360 Capital, with Plus Partners, Addendum Capital and Vento taking part, to build an AI platform that handles IT and security operations from alert to fix.

Three founders, four investors, one pre-seed

The round was announced on November 3, 2026, according to Tech.eu. 360 Capital, which invests from Paris and Milan, leads. Plus Partners, Addendum Capital and Vento participate. The company has three co-founders: Alessandro Maggio as CEO, Dragos Tanasa and Cosimo Michelagnoli.

The money goes to three things: developing the platform, launching first pilot projects with large European companies in manufacturing, technology, healthcare and telecommunications, and hiring in technical and commercial roles. No customers are named yet. The pilots are planned, which makes this a bet on a product at its earliest stage. You can find the company’s record on CyberKord’s Sesamers profile.

A digital twin that tests the fix first

CyberKord starts from the messages IT teams already receive: a security alert, a support ticket, a note in Microsoft Teams or Slack. The platform builds a Digital Twin of the company’s IT infrastructure, analyzes the issue there, simulates possible fixes and then applies the corrective action. It connects to cloud and on-premise systems without asking a company to replace what it runs today.

The customer sets how much autonomy the AI gets, and every action is recorded and open to review. That detail matters in a market where handing the keys to software is the hard sell. Maggio sums up the pitch in the announcement: “We built an artificial intelligence that does that work on its own, from start to finish, and shows every step.”

A $1.8 billion niche growing 14% a year

The closest sized segment is security orchestration, automation and response. Research and Markets puts it at $1.809 billion in 2025, reaching $4.001 billion in 2031, a 14.1% CAGR (report published January 2026). A wider definition, AI-powered security operations center platforms, reaches $5.12 billion in 2025 and $10.34 billion by 2030, a 15.1% CAGR for 2026-2030, according to Virtue Market Research (May 2026). Both are analyst projections with different scopes, so read them as a range of 14-15% annual growth.

For scale inside our own database, Pixel Systems raised €2.7 million in seed funding on October 29 for AI image verification, in the same cybersecurity vertical. A pre-seed of the same size, a week later, shows how early money in European security is being spread across very different problems. Our cybersecurity funding page and the list of European cybersecurity startups show where the rest of the field sits.

What the first pilots will tell us

The reality is that operational work grows with every tool a company adds. Maggio told Startup.eu that companies “add infrastructure, software and AI agents every week” and that operational work “grows faster than any team.” His argument is that headcount alone cannot absorb that growth.

The silver lining sits in the round itself. Three founders in the year their company was founded convinced a Paris and Milan fund and three co-investors that testing a fix on a twin before touching production is a product worth funding. The product is aimed at the largest European buyers.

Imagine if a manufacturer or a telecom operator ran the first pilot with the autonomy dial set high and the audit log open to its own security team. That is the pattern to watch: which of the four named industries signs first, how much autonomy it grants, and whether the logged steps convince a skeptical CISO. The answers will show how fast European enterprises will let software close their tickets.

Let’s follow the pilots closely, and keep backing the teams that put their reasoning on screen!