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Our Story

Built by Defenders,
For Defenders.

Graphion was founded by a team who spent decades on the other side — responding to breaches, chasing alerts, and watching attackers move faster than defenders could think. We built the platform we always needed but never had.

Meet the Team
2019
Founded
140+
Enterprise Clients
12
Countries
3.2B+
Threats Mapped
Our Mission

We exist to give defenders
the same advantage
attackers already have.

Attackers think in graphs. They think about relationships, choke points, lateral movement, and the fastest path to the crown jewels. They don\'t care about your org chart or your tool stack. They care about what\'s exposed, what\'s connected, and what can be abused.

Most security platforms answer questions about events. Graphion answers questions about paths. The moment you can see every viable attack route into and through your environment — continuously, in real time — you stop chasing alerts and start eliminating risk at the root.

Graphion security operations

Amsterdam HQ — Our platform processes over 3.2 billion threat signals daily across 140+ enterprise environments.

Company Timeline

The Road to Graphion

2019

The Breach That Started It All

Co-founders Marcus Velde and Dr. Anya Strauss were leading incident response for a major European financial institution. Despite having every top-tier security tool deployed, attackers had been living in their network for 214 days. The investigation revealed the same painful truth: tools don't fail. Context does. Graphion was incorporated three months later.

2021

First €10M ARR & Series A

After two years building with a tight cohort of design partners — enterprise banks, telcos, and critical infrastructure operators — Graphion closed a €22M Series A led by Sequoia Capital Europe. The product had already mapped over 400 million attack paths across customer environments.

2023

EU Sovereign Cloud & ISO 27001

In response to growing demand from regulated industries and government sectors, Graphion launched its EU Sovereign Cloud deployment option. All data stays within European data centers, fully compliant with GDPR, NIS2, and DORA. ISO 27001 certification achieved. Series B closed at €65M.

2025

Active Response Intelligence

Graphion became the first attack path intelligence platform to close the loop from detection to automated containment — without requiring agent deployment. Active Response Intelligence launched with zero-touch containment, automated deception layers, and board-ready reporting in a single platform.

The People

The Team

Dr. Peter Segner

Co-Founder & CEO

Serial entrepreneur and security architect with a background in large-scale infrastructure and AI systems. Built Graphion to give security teams the attacker's perspective — combining real-time graph intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK, and AI into a platform CISOs can act on.

Attack Path IntelligenceSecurity ArchitectureAI Systems

Dipl.-Ing. Ksenia Kulakova

Co-Founder & Lead Architect

AI & Cybersecurity Engineer specializing in multi-agent systems, threat intelligence, and security automation. Designed Graphion's core attack graph engine, data model, and AI narrative pipeline from the ground up.

Graph IntelligenceAI EngineeringSecurity Automation

Maximilian Brandt

Senior Security Architect

Former red team lead at a DAX-40 financial institution with 12 years of offensive security experience. Responsible for Graphion's attack path modeling methodology and MITRE ATT&CK framework integration.

Red Team OperationsAttack ModelingMITRE ATT&CK

Dr. Lena Hoffmann

Principal Data Architect

Graph database specialist with a PhD in distributed systems from TU Berlin. Leads the design of Graphion's high-performance attack graph traversal engine and risk scoring algorithms.

Graph DatabasesDistributed SystemsRisk Scoring

Jonas Weber

Platform & Infrastructure Architect

Cloud-native security engineer with deep expertise in Falco, eBPF, and container runtime security. Architects the real-time event ingestion pipeline and Cloudflare Zero Trust deployment layer.

Cloud SecurityFalcoRuntime Threat Detection
Why Graphion

What CISOs Ask Us
Before They Buy

We\'ve had this conversation with hundreds of security leaders. Here\'s what matters.

No Agents. No Exposure.

Graphion operates agentlessly using read-only API connectors. We never execute code in your environment, never require elevated credentials, and never ship data outside your sovereign boundary. Your risk posture doesn't increase to reduce your risk posture.

EU Sovereign Cloud

All data is processed and stored within EU-based data centres. Fully compliant with GDPR, NIS2, and DORA. For regulated industries with strict data residency requirements, we offer private cloud deployment with zero-copy processing in your own AWS or Azure tenant.

30-Day Proof of Value

No six-month POC. No endless professional services engagement. Graphion delivers an authorised attacker's view of your environment — with mapped attack paths, prioritised findings, and a board-ready risk report — within 30 days. If you don't see value, you pay nothing.

Board-Ready Reporting

CISOs don't need another alert feed. They need a coherent narrative about business risk. Graphion's Compliance & Board Reporting module generates executive briefings mapped to NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, and your own KPIs — at the click of a button.

Integrates in Days, Not Months

Over 140 native integrations with SIEM, EDR, cloud platforms, identity providers, and CMDB systems. Average time from contract signing to first findings briefing is 9 days. No rip-and-replace. Graphion amplifies the tools you already paid for.

Dedicated SecOps Partner

Every enterprise customer receives a named Security Intelligence Advisor — a practitioner who has held a CISO or senior security engineering role. They join your weekly threat reviews, help interpret findings, and escalate zero-days directly to your team 24/7/365.

Certifications & Compliance

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
GDPR Compliant
EU Data Residency
NIS2 Ready
DORA Aligned

Heard from CISOs

"Graphion showed us our entire blast radius in 72 hours. We'd had a Tier-1 SIEM deployed for four years and never seen what they showed us on day one."

Group CISO

Top-5 European Bank

"The board report alone saved me four hours of prep per quarter. But it's the attack path model that changed how my team operates every single day."

VP Cybersecurity

FTSE 100 Energy Group

"We went from 14,000 open vulnerabilities in our queue to 23 validated, exploitable attack paths that actually mattered. That clarity is priceless."

CISO

Global Logistics Operator

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Ready When You Are

See Your Environment the
Way an Attacker Does.

In 30 minutes with one of our Security Intelligence Advisors, we\'ll show you live attack paths in a reference environment similar to yours — before you commit to anything.

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