Cleafy has raised funding to expand its cybersecurity platform for banks, which analyses digital signals to detect and prevent fraud and cyberattacks earlier, while growing its presence across European and Latin American financial markets.
Milan-based Cleafy, a cybersecurity company focused on the banking sector, has raised €12 million in a Series B funding round co-led by United Ventures and eCAPITAL, bringing the company’s total funding to €22 million.
Traditional security and anti-fraud systems often operate in silos, analysing isolated signals or individual transactions using predefined rules. As a result, banks frequently respond to fraud only after it has occurred, leading to financial losses, operational disruption, and reputational risks. Many attacks, however, could potentially be prevented if the underlying infrastructure and intent behind them were identified earlier.
Cleafy aims to address this challenge with a platform designed to analyse how attacks originate, evolve, and spread across digital channels and internal systems. By combining data from web, mobile, backend, and network sources with real-time threat intelligence, the platform identifies malicious infrastructure, attacker behaviour, and emerging attack patterns at an early stage.
With the introduction of Cleafy for Workforce, the company has also extended this approach to detecting insider threats and compromised accounts within corporate environments.
While fraudsters weaponize AI to scale attacks at machine speed, European banks are fighting back with outdated, reactive tools. We built Cleafy to change this equation fundamentally, reconstructing how attacks form and stopping them weeks before they can cause damage. Our zero customer churn over more than a decade proves this approach works,
said Matteo Bogana, CEO and co-founder at Cleafy.
The funding round comes as new European regulations, including the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and cybersecurity requirements introduced under NIS2, raise expectations for digital resilience across the financial sector.
With the new investment, Cleafy plans to accelerate the development of its predictive security capabilities, expand global threat analysis, and strengthen its presence in key banking markets across Europe and Latin America.