Osavul, an AI-powered hybrid risk intelligence firm whose clients include NATO and defence bodies around the world, has closed an €8.5m Series A round to carry its security-grade capabilities into the commercial sector.
33N Ventures, a European cybersecurity investor with a global remit, led the round. Balnord, G+D Ventures and returning backer 42CAP also took part, lifting the company’s total capital raised to roughly €12m.
The investment comes as geopolitical friction fuels a surge in hybrid operations by hostile states and their proxies. These campaigns blend cyber intrusions, sabotage, espionage and information manipulation to damage both physical and digital systems, while making attribution difficult.
Europe has logged over 150 state-linked incidents since 2022, and comparable activity has targeted energy, aviation and shipping assets across the Middle East and Asia. Because governments lack the capacity to shield every potential target, and because most corporate security teams were designed to handle either cyber or physical threats in isolation, many operators remain exposed.
Osavul’s platform combines open-source and privileged data, processing it through a proprietary method informed by years spent attributing active hostile campaigns with defence and security partners.
The system detects the signals adversaries leave ahead of an operation, identifies who is targeting a given organisation, and maps that intent onto the client’s staff, sites and supply chains to forecast likely attacks. Each attribution feeds back into the models, strengthening future analysis. Outputs are traceable to evidence, checked by analysts and deployable on-premise within sovereign infrastructure, keeping sensitive data inside the client’s own environment.
The company was first built during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and refined over four years working with defence, cyber and information security units. It now supports government, defence and security clients in over 10 countries, among them the UK, Germany, Poland, the Nordic states, the US and the APAC region.
Osavul is also one of three technology providers supplying NATO’s Information Environment Assessment Capability. Its total contract value rose fourfold in 2025, and it has gained enterprise customers in defence industrials, energy, transport and financial services.
Proceeds will be used to strengthen its AI capabilities, build out a commercial team and push into fresh markets and sectors, extending a platform tested with NATO and defence clients to enterprises globally.
Osavul aims to become the intelligence layer that governments, defence organisations and critical businesses depend on to detect and stop hostile intent before it is acted upon.
Osavul co-founder and CEO Dmytro Plieshakov said, “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.”
Osavul co-founder and chief business development officer Dmytro Bilash said, “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.”
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