Infrawatch, founded by Edinburgh local Lloyd Davies, announced it has raised a $3 million pre-seed round to build the Internet Infrastructure Intelligence Layer, a new category of cybersecurity platform. 

The round was co-led by Outward VC and Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Portfolio Ventures and leading fintech and cyber angel investors.

Founded by Lloyd Davies and built by a team of CrowdStrike, Recorded Future, and Intel 471 alumni, Infrawatch gives security, fraud, and investigations teams real-time visibility into the infrastructure powering cyberattacks, fraud & scams, phishing, and online abuse.

The new funding will support Infrawatch’s next stage of growth, including expansion of its engineering and research teams, accelerated platform development ahead of general launch later this year, early enterprise customer deployments, and the company’s expansion into the United States on the back of strong inbound interest from security, fraud, and intelligence teams based there.

Davies founded Infrawatch stemming from extensive experience in security research and threat intelligence, including roles in PwC’s security intelligence team and CrowdStrike’s specialist team focused on nation-state threats. Having seen first-hand how adversaries use internet infrastructure to operate, and how poorly existing tools help defenders understand this threat vector, he set out to build a new intelligence layer for the internet.

Infrawatch will continue to publish security intelligence research informed by its own intelligence capabilities as part of the company’s mission to support the wider security community.

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“I know from first-hand experience how broken infrastructure intelligence is today: fragmented data, noisy feeds, and taped-together workflows, where ‘real-time’ detection often means static daily updates in practice,” Lloyd Davies, Founder and CEO of Infrawatch, said.

“Enterprises cannot keep up by patching together narrow intelligence feeds while the internet changes beneath them. That is why we built Infrawatch from the ground up: to turn one of the most underutilised aspects of cybersecurity into a practical defence layer that empowers defenders to act earlier and stop threats before they reach their customers, users or systems.”

Sam Stone, an investor at Triple Point Ventures, said: “While AI lowers the bar to carrying out cyber crime and drives up attack volumes, attackers at scale still depend on infrastructure to operate.

“We think Infrawatch offers the very best solution for society’s critical organisations to identify, understand, and disrupt that infrastructure. Lloyd and team have the depth of knowledge, experience, and technical ability to shake up the industry with a solution defenders desperately need to keep companies and people protected. We’re proud to back that vision.”