SecureSky buys London's Soveren to add real-time data security
What's the deal? SecureSkyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has acquired Soveren, a London-based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) startup, the Omaha company announced on September 9, 2026. Terms were not disclosed. The deal folds Soveren's real-time, machine learning-based sensitive data discovery and classification into SecureSky's patented exposure management and detection platform.
What each side brings: SecureSky, with more than 20 years in cybersecurity, sells integrated exposure management and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services across cloud and hybrid environments. Founded in 2021, Soveren pairs eBPF-powered network analysis with ML-driven classification to track sensitive data in motion and at rest.
Why it matters: Soveren claims 98% classification accuracy and says it is the only tool that can inspect and classify encrypted TLS traffic at scale without slowing applications. Legacy DSPM tools lean on regex detection and static snapshots, which produce high false-positive rates.
What's the endgame? SecureSky wants to unify threat and data security under one platform. "By combining our patented AI-based Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform with Soveren's ML-driven Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), we enable unified visibility and protection across our clients' environments," said chief executive officer Michael Hrabik.
Who's Soveren? The startup raised $10 million from a notable roster: the founders and CEOs of Airbnb, Slack, Datadog, Palo Alto Networks, MuleSoft, and Deel, plus Sir Richard Branson's family and European VCs firstminute capital, Northzone, and LocalGlobeDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. It counts Booking Holdings' Agoda and OpenTable as customers, and holds a 4.9 rating on G2 and 5.0 on Gartner Peer Insights.
Why now? Founder and co-CEO Peter Fedchenkov built Soveren to solve a data observability problem he hit while scaling a previous e-commerce business to $2 billion in revenue. Both companies frame the timing around faster, more automated cyber attacks. "Together, we can deliver on the promise of unified cloud and data security at a time when organisations need it most," Fedchenkov said.
The signal: The acquisition reflects a broader push to consolidate fragmented security tools into single platforms, with data posture management increasingly bundled alongside threat detection as hybrid environments grow more complex.
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