Immersive
A Bristol cyber-resilience platform with hands-on labs and crisis simulations, expanding into AI-agent readiness.
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Immersive, founded in 2017 and based in Bristol, UK, lets organizations continuously measure and build cyber resilience through hands-on technical labs, executive crisis simulations, and AI-focused readiness exercises through its Immersive One platform, keeping exercises current with attacker tradecraft via its Container 7 research pipeline and including an Agentic Harness for testing autonomous AI agents.
It raised a Series C and has nearly a decade of operating history and broad enterprise adoption.
Innovation Matrix Assessment
Continuously updates labs and exercises to match current attacker tradecraft and has extended into agentic-AI testing readiness ahead of most training-focused competitors.
Nearly a decade of enterprise deployments spanning technical, business, and executive audiences demonstrates strong operational maturity.
Recognized in Cyber Defense Media Group's 2025 Global InfoSec Awards (2 awards: Trailblazer - Cyber Resilience, and Groundbreaking - Cybersecurity Training).
Reframed security training as continuous, measurable workforce resilience rather than checkbox annual training, a meaningful but incremental category shift.
Broad, long-running enterprise adoption supports real-world efficacy, though specific resilience-improvement metrics are largely vendor-reported.
Workforce cyber resilience and crisis-readiness remain durable CISO priorities, increasingly extended to AI-agent-era threats.
Why CISOs Should Care
Immersive gives CISOs a way to continuously measure and build organization-wide cyber resilience through hands-on technical labs, executive crisis simulations, and AI-focused readiness exercises, going beyond generic annual awareness training.
What Makes It Different
Immersive's platform (Immersive One) keeps exercises current with attacker tradecraft via its 'Container 7' research pipeline and includes an 'Agentic Harness' for testing autonomous AI agents, spanning technical, business, and leadership audiences in one resilience-scoring platform.
The Matrix Verdict
62/100 — INCREMENTAL INNOVATOR
A well-funded, category-defining cyber workforce resilience platform with nearly a decade of operating history and broad enterprise adoption, now expanding into AI-agent readiness.
Editorial Note: Claims vs. Verified Findings
The 2017 founding (by James Hadley), Bristol, UK headquarters, and Series C funding (led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management) reflect established public record; the company's current live site did not disclose founding date, employee count, or funding details during this research pass, so more recent figures could not be independently reconfirmed.
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