Cyb3r Operations

Cyb3r Operations, founded in London in 2021 by CEO Vincent Cook, builds a third-party cyber risk monitoring platform aimed at replacing the annual-questionnaire-and-spreadsheet approach that still dominates vendor risk management at most organizations. The platform automatically maps an organization’s suppliers, SaaS tools, and shadow IT, then applies AI-driven analytics to assess risk across financial, operational, and compliance dimensions on an ongoing basis rather than at a single point in time.

In January 2026 the company raised roughly £4 million ($5.4 million) in a seed round led by Octopus Ventures, a well-established UK venture firm, with follow-on participation from Pi Labs, bringing total disclosed funding to about £5 million. Cook has framed the company’s pitch around a specific frustration among security and procurement teams: that most TPRM tools still produce “meaningless risk scores and static assessments that don’t reflect how companies actually work.” The new capital is earmarked for scaling the platform, deepening its threat-intelligence integrations, and growing the team.

Cyb3r Operations is still an early-stage company without disclosed enterprise customer names or independent efficacy data, competing against a long list of established third-party risk management vendors. Its differentiation is continuous, automated supplier discovery and risk-dimension scoring rather than periodic manual assessment, a direction several competitors are also pursuing.