RAC Leads $25M Series B in Cyber Guru

Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) is proud to announce our lead role in Cyber Guru’s $25 million Series B funding round. The funding comes approximately one year after our initial debt investment.

We’re equally proud to say that Cyber Guru’s follow-on equity investment is an example of RAC’s ability to support portfolio companies through multiple rounds of funding, spanning both debt and equity. We are committed to being a long-term partner with a multi-stage approach to growth capital that enables B2B tech companies to access the right capital at the right time. This flexibility allows us to provide tailored support and growth advisory resources to support the needs of each company as they scale and work toward achieving their growth objectives.

Cyber Guru, headquartered in Rome, Italy, is transforming cybersecurity training with its adaptive learning platform. By harnessing artificial intelligence and advanced learning methodologies, the company delivers personalized training designed to reduce human risk—the leading cause of data breaches.

The company has achieved impressive growth milestones to date, securing the trust of over 700 organizations across 90 countries and boasting more than 1 million active users worldwide. Cyber Guru is a key player in Italy’s security training market and has recently been recognized as one of Southern Europe's fastest-growing startups.

Cyber Guru’s comprehensive solution includes engaging e-learning content, interactive video simulations, and contextualized phishing tests. All training is tailored to each user's individual risk profile by Cyber Guru's proprietary machine learning model, designed to ensure maximum effectiveness and relevance.

This Series B funding will help accelerate Cyber Guru's product roadmap, enhancing its AI-driven training capabilities to further optimize the learning experience. The investment will also help fuel the company's sales and marketing expansion across Europe, with a focus on strategic markets like France and Spain, where Cyber Guru has already established a notable presence.

In a press release announcing the round, Cyber Guru CEO Gianni Baroni, said, “Securing this investment from Riverside and EduCapital, along with the continued support from Adara and P101, is a monumental step in our journey to scale internationally. Our mission is to improve organisation’s resistance to cyberattacks, by transforming user behaviour. With our proprietary Machine Learning model and the use of advanced adult learning methodologies, we’ve built a comprehensive security awareness training platform that is effective to manage and reduce human risk, and now we are poised to take this vision worldwide.”

RAC has supported Cyber Guru's journey since our initial investment, and we are excited to see how this funding round will catalyze the company's next phase of growth as they continue to innovate and redefine the cybersecurity training landscape worldwide.

To learn more about Cyber Guru's innovative approach to cybersecurity awareness, visit www.cyberguru.it/en/.