Sharelock

Sharelock builds an identity security platform that combines Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) with Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) — watching for both misconfigurations and standing risk in an organization’s identity infrastructure (ISPM) and active, in-progress identity-based attacks (ITDR) in a single product rather than requiring two separate tools. Its machine-learning layer profiles normal user behavior to flag anomalies, and a more recent agentic-AI layer automates parts of the investigation and response workflow, aimed at cutting the manual triage load on identity and SOC teams.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Rome, Italy, Sharelock has raised roughly $4-5 million across seed-stage rounds, with investors including Breega, Banque des Territoires, 468 Capital, and Y Combinator, among others. The company has built a real, if modest, evidence base for the product: KuppingerCole, an independent identity and access management analyst firm, published a customer success story on Sharelock’s deployment, and the company appears in Gartner Peer Insights reviews for its Identity Security Platform category — both genuine, named third-party engagement rather than self-published case studies.

Sharelock markets itself as the only European ITDR platform recognized by both Gartner and GigaOm, a positioning that reflects a real gap: most ITDR vendors serving the identity-heavy US market are American, leaving European buyers with data-residency or vendor-sovereignty preferences relatively underserved. At roughly 11-50 employees, Sharelock remains a small player competing against far larger, better-capitalized identity security vendors, with its European base and analyst recognition as its clearest points of differentiation.