Spanish cybersecurity startup 8Layers extends pre-Seed round to €2.5 million total funding

Madrid-based cybersecurity company 8Layers has closed a €1 million extension of its pre-Seed round to strengthen their GTM strategy and accelerate commercialisation across the European market – raising its total funding to €2.5 million.

Today’s raise marks the entry of two strategic investors from the Spanish corporate venture capital ecosystem: Criteria Venture Tech, the venture capital arm of CriteriaCaixa, one of Spain’s largest financial holding companies, and Bankinter.

This extension builds on a €1.5 million pre-Seed round closed in 2025.

“We have just launched the platform commercially, and we are very proud to welcome two strategic partners who know first-hand the problem we solve. Their entry is not just an investment: it is confirmation, from within the financial sector itself, that digital identity security is now a top-level priority,” says Daniel García Morán, CEO and co-founder of 8Layers.

8Layers’ pre-Seed extension comes amid continued 2026 funding activity across European cybersecurity, digital identity and compliance infrastructure.

EU-Startups has reported comparable rounds including Madrid-based Sybol’s over €1 million raise for corporate digital identity infrastructure, Spain-based Zepo Intelligence’s €12.8 million Seed round for AI-driven social engineering defence, Barcelona-based NeuralTrust’s €17.2 million Seed round for enterprise AI-agent security, Prague-based Wultra’s €6.8 million Series A for post-quantum authentication and digital identity wallet capabilities, and France’s MokN’s €12.9 million Series A for credential-theft protection.

Across the relevant 2026 examples identified, disclosed funding totals approximately €112.3 million, or €113.3 million including 8Layers’ extension. The presence of Sybol, Zepo Intelligence and NeuralTrust means 8Layers’ round also sits alongside other Spanish cybersecurity and identity-adjacent financings.

Founded in 2024, 8Layers specialises in the protection of digital identities, one of the most vulnerable assets in any organisation and the leading vector of today’s cyberattacks.

Its platform, commercially available since May 2026, integrates into a single solution Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), and automated compliance with European regulations (ENS, NIS2, ISO 27001).

The company was founded by Daniel García Morán, Pedro Palao, Pablo Carretero and Iago Salgado, professionals with more than 20 years of experience in scalable systems development and cybersecurity. Three of them were part of the founding team of Devo, a Spanish DeepTech unicorn.

The company says that the investment from two players from the Spanish financial sector represents a validation of its thesis: banks, which face a daily rise in credential-based attacks and growing regulatory pressure (Spain’s National Security Framework ENS, and the EU’s NIS2 directive), recognise digital identity security as a top-level priority.