Indurex raises €7M to strengthen cybersecurity across critical infrastructure
Tech.eu Tamara Djurickovic
Indurex just raised €7 million for its AI cybersecurity platform for factories and other critical systems. It’s aiming at the messy gap between IT, OT and safety, where a lot of industrial risk hides.
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Indurex has raised €7 million to push its AI-powered cybersecurity platform deeper into critical infrastructure, manufacturing and connected industrial operations. The funding round was led by Contrarian Ventures, with Axeleo Capital and Curiosity also taking part.
The company works on cybersecurity for cyber-physical systems, which is a more awkward and more useful place to be than the usual network-only pitch. Its customers span oil and gas, energy, utilities, manufacturing and data centres, where more connected equipment also means more ways for things to go wrong.
That is the niche Indurex is chasing with SafeGuard AI. The platform pulls together data from industrial control systems, safety systems, operational data and IT security tools, then uses AI agents to spot anomalies, engineering deviations and possible risks. The pitch is not just detection. It is also about giving operators recommended actions, supporting incident response and generating compliance reports for cybersecurity and functional safety standards.
Jalal Bouhdada, the company’s founder and CEO, says the industry has spent too long treating cyber defence and operational excellence as separate problems. Indurex says its early customers include mid-sized energy and manufacturing firms as well as large multinationals, and that it is also targeting utilities and data centre operators. The new money will go into research and development and commercial expansion, first in Europe and the Middle East, before a push into the US and Asia-Pacific.
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Industrial cyber is finally moving past the “watch the network and hope” phase, which is a relief. The real risk in these plants lives in the engineering and safety layers, not just the traffic graph. Most vendors still sell a fancier door lock; Indurex is trying to inspect the building.
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