Netsec

Netsec, founded in 2025 by CEO Gianluca Varisco and co-founder Guglielmo Reina, sells a single managed service that combines everyday IT support and cybersecurity operations for mid-market companies, rather than selling the two as separate functions handled by separate vendors or internal teams. The service is delivered through the channels employees already use, Slack and Microsoft Teams, and is priced per employee rather than per support ticket, aiming to remove the friction and unpredictable costs that often come with traditional managed IT and security contracts.

Varisco previously led security at Rocket Internet and Arduino and later worked as a Principal Security Architect at Google Cloud, giving the company’s security operations a credible technical pedigree. Netsec says it already manages thousands of endpoints for clients across Europe and the United States. In October 2026, roughly a year after founding, the company announced more than $10 million (about €8.93 million) in equity funding led by Partech, with participation from Primo Capital, View Different (the investment vehicle of former Apple executive Diego Piacentini), former King CEO Riccardo Zacconi, Kima Ventures and other investors.

Netsec’s core bet is packaging, not a new detection technology: by running IT and security as one operator with one bill and one chat-based interface, it targets mid-market companies that often lack the budget or staff to run both functions well separately. The company is too young to have independent case studies, named enterprise customers, or performance benchmarks publicly available, so its real-world operational impact remains to be demonstrated at scale.