Infrawatch raises $3M pre-seed to map the internet's hidden infrastructure

What's the deal? London-based cybersecurity startup InfrawatchDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised $3M in a pre-seed round co-led by Outward VC and Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Portfolio Ventures and a group of fintech and cybersecurity angel investors. The company is building infrastructure intelligence technology for cyber threat detection and online fraud prevention.

Infrawatch was founded by Lloyd Davies and built by a team of former employees from CrowdStrike and Recorded Future.

Why now? As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and online fraud becomes harder to detect, there's rising demand for tools that can map and monitor internet infrastructure in real time. Traditional cybersecurity approaches often miss threats hiding in the underlying infrastructure layer — the domains, servers, and networks that attackers use to operate.

What could go wrong? The infrastructure intelligence space is competitive, with established players like Recorded Future and DomainTools already serving enterprise clients. As a pre-seed startup, Infrawatch faces the challenge of proving its technology can differentiate in a crowded market while scaling its team and product fast enough to capture early customers.

The signal: Infrawatch's founding team — drawn from CrowdStrike and Recorded Future — hints at a talent flywheel forming around London's cybersecurity cluster, where experienced operators are spinning out startups to address gaps they identified at incumbents. Co-leads Outward VC and Triple Point Ventures both have a track record of backing early-stage deeptech, suggesting they see infrastructure intelligence as a distinct category rather than a feature bolted onto existing platforms.

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