Estonia -based Blackwall raises 45 million euros from the B series to protect small and medium -sized companies from online malware

A large part of online traffic now comes from robots, either good and bad – but Amnesty International strengthens the latter. From DDOS attacks to scraping, there is a renewed barrage of threats that companies must deal with.

According to Cyber ​​Security Man Nikita Rosenberg, the effect is more severe for SMBS. “The main difference is that large companies usually can survive with that. Most of these threats can simply kill small companies.”

This inspired it to start BlackwallIt is an emerging company based in Estonia, which was previously known as Botguard, which is involved in similarities with Cloudflare, IMPERVA, etc., but with a focus on SMBS.

The impact of this focus also on its product map: It recently launched a product to prevent advertising fraud that prevents e -commerce sites from spending their ads consuming by robots.

The pace that is launched by the start of new requests and plans to continue doing this is one of the factors that resonated with Dawn Capital, the VC that focuses on B2B and which supports the Blackwall tour 45 million euros (about 49.2 million dollars).

Funding will help develop new products that exceed its pioneering product, the gatekeeper, a The opposite of the agent Who inspects traffic and analyzes it – using artificial intelligence – and nominates malicious requests in actual time. These threats include robots, but also infiltrators, for example.

This is also the reason why Blackwall is renamed to reflect its expanded range. Dennis Brooko, co -founder of Rozenberg, has reached the new name, a reference to the Cyberpunk 2077 video, as it protects the complex protection wall called Blackwall Network from Rogue AIS.

Video game traditions aside, the reality of Blackwall is a lower profile. To adapt to small and medium companies, it needs to be easy to use and automatic, which means that it is often invisible for the final users. This is also because Blackwall does not sell directly to small and medium companies, and instead he chose what Rozenberg called “channel model”.

This strategy is partnership with brokers, such as hosting service providers, managed service providers and e -commerce platforms that are looking to improve their margins. Blackwall’s introduction to its customers can also be a factor of differentiation and also a way to reduce the cost -effective costs of traffic traffic.

This is also the reason why Blackwall will go to Midmarket players who cannot spend millions to develop interior products such as their biggest competitors such as Godaddy, and they need external support to deal with this problem. On the contrary, the startup of this sales strategy found especially fruitful.

The partnership with more than 100 of these Blackwall players has helped quickly since its launch in 2019: with a team of 65, which claims that its services are now published across more than 2.3 million sites and application.

New financing will now help double the number of employees, and double the expansion of the United States and APAC markets. Dawn Capital support will be relied upon, as well 12 million euros series a Just one year ago (about 13.1 million dollars at a exchange rate today).