Tadaweb secures €17.3 million to arm cybersecurity and defense teams with smarter OSINT

Luxembourg-based Tadaweb has secured €17.3 million to scale its Small Data Operating System for publicly available information (PAI) and open-source intelligence (OSINT), supporting product development and recruiting top talent.

Arsenal Growth and Forgepoint Capital International led the investment, with participation from existing investor Wendel. Both Jason Rottenberg, General Partner at Arsenal Growth, and Damien Henault, Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital International, will join the Tadaweb board.

Their SaaS platform is used by defence, national security, public safety, cyber threat intelligence and corporate security organisations across Europe and the U.S to boost the efficiency of analysts and investigators.

Jason Rottenberg, Co-founder and General Partner at Arsenal Growth, said: “Tadaweb has built a genuinely human-centric Operating System that is solely focused on making analysts dramatically more productive. The company is uniquely positioned to accelerate its customers’ ability to harness the vast opportunities of OSINT, irrespective of their sector focus, with an ambitious team that is building an extraordinary company.”

PAI is information found in public sources, whether in print media, online platforms, social media, public records, websites, blogs, forums, imagery, and videos. OSINT refers to the process of collecting, analysing, and disseminating publicly available data points to support decision-making. OSINT is estimated to account for between 80% and 90% of information-gathering activities carried out by law enforcement agencies and other government entities.

Being able to rapidly analyse PAI offers public and private sector organisations access to accurate and actionable information in markets frequently disrupted by political turmoil and economic instability. However, Tadaweb says that information overload can overwhelm even the most well-resourced organisations, making it increasingly difficult for analysts and end users to quickly surface the most valuable insights and make critical decisions.

Small Data refers to the amount of information that a human can process, combining precision data points to get the right answer. Tadaweb augments human analysts’ Small Data skills with an Operating System enhanced by AI that brings together a suite of products to integrate seamlessly with third-party web tools and APIs, ingesting data from PAI, commercially available information, and emerging sources.

As a result, Tadaweb users are better equipped to meet mission-critical priorities, from reducing fraud and identifying potential threats, to minimising supply chain disruptions and mitigating financial losses.

Damien Henault, Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital International, said: “Many players claim to help organisations with OSINT, but they offer a set of features, not a fully integrated end-to-end platform. Three things attracted us to Tadaweb and how its Operating System helps analysts be more productive: its Small Data approach combined with a unique low/no-code visual query engine, the way it prioritises the human analyst, not the data, and its hyper-focused management team committed to delivering value for its customers.”

This funding brings the total investment in Tadaweb to €34.7 million, following Wendel’s initial backing of €15.6 million in 2023 and €1.7 million from angel investors in 2015.