Lausanne cybersecurity startup, Saporo – a graph-native identity security company that lets defenders see enterprise environments the way attackers do – has raised €7 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by TIN Capital, with participation from G+D Ventures, CDP Venture Capital through its Corporate Partners I – ServiceTech fund, XAnge, Lightbird VC and Session VC.
Beyond capital, each investor will play a strategic role in Saporo’s growth: TIN Capital will support the expansion of its network and business in Northern Europe, G+D Ventures will facilitate market development in Germany, and CDP Venture Capital will drive opportunities in Italy.
Olivier Eyries, co-founder and CEO, Saporo says: “The identity security market is deceptive. ITDR and access graphs create a false sense of security, often not fixing systemic risk and not giving the real attacker’s perspective. In large enterprises, identity graphs routinely surface over a billion attack paths. Fixing them one by one is effectively a century-long project.”
In 2025, EU-Startups reported only a small number of funding rounds in areas adjacent to Saporo’s graph-native identity security focus.
These included WiseBee, a US-Bulgarian autonomous cyber-defence startup, which secured €2.1 million to advance its agentic defence platform, and Norway-based Bsure, which raised €1.8 million to help organisations detect risky and inactive Microsoft accounts within their identity infrastructure.
With a combined total of roughly €3.9 million flowing into related startups, Saporo’s €7 million Series A stands out as one of the largest identity-focused funding events covered in 2025.
The comparatively smaller rounds for WiseBee and Bsure suggest that much of the sector remains early-stage, while Saporo’s more substantial raise may reflect growing investor confidence in identity-centric security approaches and provide the company with greater capacity for expansion across Europe and into the US.
“Our customers use Saporo to remove around eighty percent of those paths within the first year, which delivers faster risk reduction and far lower remediation effort. With this pan-European investor group, we are scaling to meet demand from large enterprise and regulated sectors across Europe, while building a measured footprint in the US,” adds Eyries.
Founded in 2021, Saporo maps and analyses millions to billions of potential attack paths across hybrid identity systems – spanning on-prem Active Directory, cloud directories and non-human identities – so security teams can proactively eliminate the riskiest routes to critical assets.
