Summary

• Netsec has raised more than $10 million in equity funding led by Partech.
• It combines device, identity, endpoint, network, support and security operations under one managed service.
• The company will invest further in automation, integration and expansion across Europe and the US.

European technology company Netsec has raised more than $10 million to expand a managed service that combines IT operations and cyber security under one provider rather than splitting responsibility across a collection of tools and suppliers.

Partech led the equity round, with Primo Capital and View Different participating. The company plans to use the capital to develop the automation and integration layer behind its service while expanding operations across Europe and the United States.

Netsec was founded in 2025 around an organisational problem familiar to growing companies. Device management, identity, endpoint protection, networking, help desk operations and security monitoring are often purchased separately even though an incident can pass through several of those functions before anyone can establish what went wrong.

Its service puts those activities into one operating model. Customers pay per employee rather than per ticket, while staff can make routine requests through tools including Slack and Microsoft Teams. Automation handles repeatable tasks and human operators remain available for incidents, exceptions and decisions requiring judgement.

Operational gaps become security gaps

Employee onboarding shows how closely ordinary IT administration and security are connected. Creating an account, issuing a device, installing software and granting access may involve multiple systems, while removing those permissions correctly when somebody leaves requires the same systems to remain synchronised.

A failure can begin as an administrative error and end as a security exposure. An unmanaged laptop may look like an inventory problem until it connects to sensitive systems, while an account left active after a departure can become a route around otherwise effective controls.

Netsec combines device management, identity, endpoint protection, networks, software access, patching, security operations and help desk work under the same provider. That gives its automation layer more context than a tool responsible for one narrow task.

The company says it manages thousands of endpoints and has achieved a median incident response time below 14 minutes across thousands of tickets. Those remain company reported operating figures rather than independently audited benchmarks, but they show how Netsec measures the service it is selling.

Automation is intended to absorb repetitive work such as provisioning, patching, routine support and evidence collection. The design does not assume that every task should be completed without human involvement; more sensitive actions can be escalated to operators who retain responsibility for the outcome.

Compliance adds demand for a joined-up record

European regulation increases the value of connecting operational and security information. NIS2 and DORA raise expectations around governance and resilience for organisations within their scope, while GDPR and assurance frameworks such as ISO 27001 create additional requirements around access, controls and evidence.

A provider that can see the user, device, software state and relevant security events in one operation may find it easier to produce evidence than a customer relying on separate systems whose records have to be reconciled manually. Regulatory accountability still remains with the organisation where the law places obligations on management.

Netsec says its own operations hold ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications. The funding will allow it to invest further in the software that ties its different service areas together rather than scaling simply by adding more support staff for every new customer.

That distinction determines whether the model has economic leverage. Traditional managed services can become labour intensive as customer numbers rise because more endpoints and requests require proportionally more people. Netsec is betting that automation can let one operating layer handle a larger estate without degrading response or control.

Growth will make that assumption harder to sustain. Every new customer brings another mix of applications, identity providers, security products and internal policies. Automation creates an advantage only if the platform can absorb enough of that variation without turning every exception back into manual work.

AI adds another governance issue. Automating a password reset is materially different from changing an access policy or responding to suspicious activity. Systems need boundaries defining which tasks software can complete, which require approval and which should be escalated immediately.

Netsec’s broader ownership of IT and security gives it more context for making those distinctions, but it also creates more responsibility. A provider handling both sides of an incident cannot as easily attribute a failure to another supplier sitting between the help desk and security team.

The new capital gives the company room to develop that model across a larger customer base. Its claim to be AI native will ultimately depend less on how many tasks contain automation than on whether the service can use shared operational context to act safely across devices, identities and security controls.

Combining IT and cyber security will not remove every specialist supplier from an organisation’s environment. Netsec is instead trying to own the coordination layer above them, turning a collection of systems into one managed operation. The more than $10 million round is a bet that reducing those organisational seams can improve both service delivery and security.