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# NATO-Trusted Osavul Raises €8.5M to Spot Hybrid Attacks Before They Strike
- URL: https://www.therecursive.com/nato-trusted-osavul-raises-eur8-5m-to-spot-hybrid-attacks-before-they-strike/
- Published: 2026-10-01T13:36:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T13:36:15.000Z
- Description: Osavul, the Ukraine-born, Luxembourg-headquartered company whose AI spots hostile intent across the cyber, physical and information domains, raised €8.5M led by 33N Ventures, taking its platform, already trusted by NATO, to enterprises and critical infrastructure worldwide.
- Author: The Recursive
- Tags: CEE, Deals

👯 **Founder(s):** Dmytro Plieshakov (Co-founder & CEO) and Dmytro Bilash (Co-founder & Chief Business Development Officer). 

📅 **Founding year:** 2022

🏭 **Industry:** Cybersecurity / defence tech (hybrid threat intelligence)

💥 **Problem:** Hostile states and their proxies now combine cyberattacks, sabotage, espionage and information manipulation to hit physical and digital infrastructure while hiding responsibility (150+ state-linked incidents in Europe since 2022). Most corporate security teams are built for either cyber or physical risk — not both.

📣 **Solution:** An AI platform that draws on open and privileged data to identify hostile intent across the information, cyber and physical domains *before* an attack happens — mapping who is targeting a customer against its people, facilities and supply chains. Assessments are evidence-traced, analyst-reviewed, and can run on-premise within sovereign infrastructure.

👥 **Customers:** Governments, defence and security institutions (in 10+ countries incl. UK, Germany, Poland, the Nordics, the US, APAC), plus enterprises and critical infrastructure operators in defence industrials, energy, transport and financial services. Also one of three tech companies delivering NATO's Information Environment Assessment Capability.

🎳 **Team size:** 11-50

🌱 **Stage:** Series A

💰 **Investment amount:** €8.5M

🚀 **Funded by:** 33N Ventures (lead), with Balnord, G+D Ventures and existing investor 42CAP.

👁️‍🗨️ **Investor's perspective:**

> **Carlos Alberto Silva**, Managing Partner at 33N Ventures: *"Adversaries operate across information, cyber and physical channels at once; most security tools are still siloed. Osavul connects all three… We are backing these second-time founders to build the defining company in hybrid threat intelligence – from Europe, for the world."*

> **Gabriele Poteliunaite**, Principal at Balnord: *"The state cannot defend every target, so the companies running Europe's infrastructure are now carrying risk they were never equipped for… It's built by a founding team who had already built and exited a company together before starting this one."*

> **Alberto Pérez Arranz**, Investment Principal at G+D Ventures: *"Organisations do not need more isolated alerts; they need situational awareness… Osavul turns fragmented signals into explainable, forward-looking intelligence… a critical layer of Europe's future security infrastructure."*

💡 **It will be spent on:** Deepening its AI capabilities, building a world-class commercial organisation, and expanding into new markets and sectors — taking the platform from government/defence to enterprises and critical infrastructure worldwide.

💬 **In their own words:**

> **Dmytro Plieshakov**, CEO: *"Hybrid attacks are no longer a government problem alone. The companies running energy, airports, ports, transport and finance now face the same adversaries, usually without the means to see them coming. We will keep working with governments and defence, where our intelligence is forged, and bring that capability to the businesses societies rely on."*

> **Dmytro Bilash**, CBDO: *"We built Osavul under live operational conditions, and that experience travels. From Luxembourg we now serve customers worldwide, increasingly in regions facing conflict and instability, where the need for sovereign, multi-language intelligence is most acute."*

💪 **Their specialty:** A proprietary attribution process built on years of attributing live hostile campaigns alongside defence and security institutions — knowledge competitors can't replicate. Every campaign attributed sharpens the models for the next, so the intelligence compounds. Battle-tested with NATO; total contract value grew fourfold in 2025.

🔑 **Business model:** B2G/B2B — software/intelligence platform sold to governments, defence and security institutions, and (newly) to enterprises and critical infrastructure operators; supports on-premise/sovereign deployment. 

💸 **Funding so far:** \~€12M total (this €8.5M Series A + early-stage seed capital in total \~€2.78M / $3M).