Paris-based cybersecurity and IT management company Netsec announced on October 6, 2026, that it has raised more than US$10 million in equity funding. The round was led by Partech, with participation from Primo Capital and View Different, represented by Diego Piacentini. The new capital will support the company's automation and integration layer, operational expansion, and continued growth across Europe and the United States.
A Market Under Pressure
The cyber threat landscape continues to intensify, with ransomware, phishing, and supply chain attacks affecting organizations of every size. At the same time, European regulations such as NIS2 and DORA are raising the compliance bar for many companies. Mid-market firms often still run IT and security across a fragmented set of vendors covering device management, identity, endpoint, network, SOC, and help desk functions.
One Operator Across IT and Security
Netsec positions itself as a single accountable operator for the full IT and cybersecurity stack, covering onboarding and offboarding, SaaS and access sprawl, patching, and audit evidence. The model pairs a unified technology stack with a team that owns outcomes end to end rather than reacting on an hourly basis. AI-powered automation handles repetitive tasks so human operators can focus on judgment and incident response.
A Subscription Delivery Model
The service is delivered through Slack and Teams and is priced per employee rather than per ticket. Requests resolve in-thread, incidents route to a named operator, and security and IT operations run on one subscription rather than a tangle of vendor invoices. This approach is designed to remove the fragmentation that typically exists between help desk, endpoint management, identity, network, and SOC providers.
Traction and Growth Plans
After just one year of activity, Netsec manages thousands of endpoints for clients across Europe and the United States. The company also runs an incident response retainer with a median response time under 14 minutes across thousands of tickets received to date. The funding announced today will finance the build-out of its automation and integration layer, expand operations, and support continued growth in both markets.
Investor Perspectives
Partech General Partner Réza Malekzadeh said managed services have historically scaled with headcount, while Netsec breaks that link by pairing a single operator with automation that absorbs volume work. Primo Capital Partner Niccolò Sanarico added that the founders are operators who treat security as an engineering discipline rather than a compliance checkbox. Both investors pointed to the company's international operating depth and the rising regulatory pressure as important factors in their decision.
Founders With Operating Depth
Netsec was founded in 2025 by Gianluca Varisco and Guglielmo Reina, who first worked side by side at Rocket Internet. Varisco went on to lead security at Arduino and the Italian Government's Digital Transformation Team before joining Google Cloud as a Principal Security Architect. Reina moved into technology investing at Global Founders Capital and 468 Capital, giving the founding team a combination of hands-on security leadership and company-building perspective.
With the new equity funding, Netsec aims to strengthen its role as the single accountable partner for mid-market companies facing rising threats and stricter compliance requirements. The company's model addresses the seams between disconnected tools and vendors where breaches and operational costs often grow. Its expansion across Europe and the United States will test whether a unified, automation-led approach can reshape how mid-sized organizations consume IT and cybersecurity.