Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM)

Sonae IM is the corporate venturing arm of the Sonae Group, specializing in investments in technology-driven companies aligned with Sonae's core business sectors. Operating with a flexible investment strategy, Sonae IM combines its technological expertise and brand capital with a global network to support its portfolio companies. The organization's history of corporate venturing dates back to initiatives such as the establishment of revenue assurance leader WeDo in 2001 and the successful spin-off of Mainroad in 2003. Sonae IM has also made strategic investments in the cybersecurity sector, notably in the Spanish company s21sec, and in location analytics through its investment in Movvo. Since its formal launch in 2015, Sonae IM has invested in companies like InovRetail, StyleSage, and Sysvalue, further enhancing its portfolio. The firm has also engaged in the acquisition of stakes in funds managed by ES Ventures and launched Bright Pixel, a company builder studio. Sonae IM operates from Porto, Portugal, and reflects Sonae's long-standing commitment to corporate venturing.

Benjamin Junior

Investment Team

Cristina Novais

CFO

Manuel Queiroz

Leonor de L'Hermite

Operating Partner

Past deals in Cyber Security

VanishID

Venture Round in 2025
Picnic is a cybersecurity firm that proactively protects people and companies against the biggest threat vector in cyber today: attacks by social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public information about you, your family, and your company to craft attacks that include phishing scams, ransomware, impersonation, identity theft, malware, elder fraud, and many others. Picnic proactively finds and removes the information about businesses and people that can be harvested by social engineers. Our technology works automatically, seamlessly, and continuously to protect you, your organization, and also your family. We make you less visible and reduce your attack surface. This is next-generation security—security at the human level. Get in touch to learn more about how we preemptively safeguard enterprises and individual employees from social engineering attacks.

Sekoia.io

Series B in 2025
Sekoia.io is a developer of an advanced security operations center (SOC) platform that equips security teams with tools to effectively identify and respond to significant cyber threats across their entire attack surface. The platform integrates real-time detection and automation, allowing teams to manage the complexities and high volumes of security incidents while reducing false positives. By continuously analyzing emerging threats and implementing strategic responses, Sekoia.io enables organizations to enhance their security posture and respond to threats more swiftly and reliably than traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems. This proactive approach ensures that clients remain informed and prepared against evolving cyber risks.

Trustero

Series A in 2024
Trustero offers solutions for ensuring sustainable trustworthiness in emerging enterprises. Its Compliance as a Service (CaaS) uses AI and modern technologies to manage regulatory compliance through vulnerability assessments, risk analyses, and other measures. This provides clients with actionable insights into their compliance status across the extended enterprise.

Tamnoon

Series A in 2024
Tamnoon provides a managed platform for enhancing cloud security. It simplifies detection and response to cloud security threats, improving overall cloud posture by addressing misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.

Vicarius

Series B in 2024
Founded in 2016, Vicarius develops a platform that proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates software vulnerabilities. Its solution, vRx, combines discovery, prioritization, and mitigation to protect critical applications and assets against cyber threats.

Sekoia.io

Series A in 2023
Sekoia.io is a developer of an advanced security operations center (SOC) platform that equips security teams with tools to effectively identify and respond to significant cyber threats across their entire attack surface. The platform integrates real-time detection and automation, allowing teams to manage the complexities and high volumes of security incidents while reducing false positives. By continuously analyzing emerging threats and implementing strategic responses, Sekoia.io enables organizations to enhance their security posture and respond to threats more swiftly and reliably than traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems. This proactive approach ensures that clients remain informed and prepared against evolving cyber risks.

VanishID

Series A in 2023
Picnic is a cybersecurity firm that proactively protects people and companies against the biggest threat vector in cyber today: attacks by social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public information about you, your family, and your company to craft attacks that include phishing scams, ransomware, impersonation, identity theft, malware, elder fraud, and many others. Picnic proactively finds and removes the information about businesses and people that can be harvested by social engineers. Our technology works automatically, seamlessly, and continuously to protect you, your organization, and also your family. We make you less visible and reduce your attack surface. This is next-generation security—security at the human level. Get in touch to learn more about how we preemptively safeguard enterprises and individual employees from social engineering attacks.

IriusRisk

Series B in 2022
IriusRisk is a Spain-based company specializing in threat modeling solutions for application security. Established in 2015 by Stephen de Vries and Cristina Bentue, the company focuses on integrating security measures into the software design and development process. Its automated platform conducts risk analysis and generates threat models during the design phase, offering actionable recommendations to address potential risks. This approach not only assists developers and security analysts in mitigating vulnerabilities but also enhances collaboration between security and development teams. IriusRisk's clientele includes notable enterprise clients, such as Fortune 500 banks and technology providers, highlighting its effectiveness in improving speed-to-market while avoiding costly security flaws.

Hackuity

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2018, Hackuity is a French cybersecurity company that specializes in vulnerability management. Its platform aggregates and normalizes security assessment data, enabling risk-driven remediation plans and aligning priorities with current threats.

Cybersixgill

Series B in 2022
Cybersixgill specializes in autonomous threat intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing cyber defense for organizations. The company provides a comprehensive Investigative Portal that offers covert access to threat intelligence sourced from the deep and dark web, delivering contextual and actionable insights for effective remediation. Its platform employs advanced algorithms to analyze threat actor behaviors and predict cybercrime, ensuring continuous monitoring and prioritized alerts. Additionally, Cybersixgill's Darkfeed™ feature enriches endpoint protection by proactively blocking malicious indicators of compromise, while the DVE Score™ offers critical insights into vulnerabilities, assessing the risk of exploitation based on threat actor intent. The company serves a diverse clientele, including global enterprises, financial services, managed security service providers, and governmental entities.

SafeBreach

Series D in 2021
SafeBreach Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in breach and attack simulation (BAS). Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, SafeBreach offers a platform designed to enhance an organization's security posture by simulating real-world attack methods. The platform utilizes a comprehensive Hacker's Playbook, which includes a range of breach techniques derived from actual cyber incidents, to proactively identify vulnerabilities within an enterprise's network, cloud, and endpoints. By mimicking the tactics of cybercriminals, SafeBreach enables businesses to validate their security controls and improve the responsiveness of their security operations center (SOC) analysts. The platform can integrate with various security information and event management systems, ticketing solutions, and automation tools, providing continuous visibility into potential security threats and allowing organizations to address issues before they can be exploited by attackers.

Jscrambler

Series A in 2021
Jscrambler specializes in enterprise-grade security solutions for web and hybrid mobile applications. Its core product, Code Integrity, employs polymorphic obfuscation and self-defensive capabilities to protect JavaScript code from reverse-engineering and tampering attempts, preventing intellectual property theft and data leakage. Additionally, Webpage Integrity offers real-time visibility of client-side attacks like Magecart web skimmers, enabling immediate response. Jscrambler's solutions are compliant with major tech frameworks and trusted by Fortune 500 companies.

Deepfence

Series A in 2020
Deepfence Inc is a cybersecurity company founded in 2016 and based in Milpitas, California. The company specializes in developing security software tailored for containerized applications, aiming to enhance cloud-native application security. Its innovative "Security as Microservice" solution fundamentally transforms the protection of cloud workloads and containers, addressing the unique challenges of modern application infrastructures. Deepfence's workload protection platform is designed to prevent cyberattacks by identifying subtle indicators of compromise and providing real-time defense against complex threats. This approach ensures comprehensive protection for businesses against both known and unknown vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing the overall security posture of their applications.

IriusRisk

Series A in 2020
IriusRisk is a Spain-based company specializing in threat modeling solutions for application security. Established in 2015 by Stephen de Vries and Cristina Bentue, the company focuses on integrating security measures into the software design and development process. Its automated platform conducts risk analysis and generates threat models during the design phase, offering actionable recommendations to address potential risks. This approach not only assists developers and security analysts in mitigating vulnerabilities but also enhances collaboration between security and development teams. IriusRisk's clientele includes notable enterprise clients, such as Fortune 500 banks and technology providers, highlighting its effectiveness in improving speed-to-market while avoiding costly security flaws.

Probely

Seed Round in 2020
Probely offers an automated web vulnerability scanner for agile teams. It identifies security issues in web applications and APIs, providing guidance on remediation. Probely integrates into development processes and CI/CD pipelines to automate security testing.

Arctic Wolf Networks

Series D in 2020
Arctic Wolf Networks offers cloud-native security operations technology, providing Managed Detection and Response, Managed Risk, and Managed Cloud Monitoring services. Its team of concierge security engineers acts as an extension of clients' internal teams, offering tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management to protect valuable business data.

Cybersixgill

Series B in 2020
Cybersixgill specializes in autonomous threat intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing cyber defense for organizations. The company provides a comprehensive Investigative Portal that offers covert access to threat intelligence sourced from the deep and dark web, delivering contextual and actionable insights for effective remediation. Its platform employs advanced algorithms to analyze threat actor behaviors and predict cybercrime, ensuring continuous monitoring and prioritized alerts. Additionally, Cybersixgill's Darkfeed™ feature enriches endpoint protection by proactively blocking malicious indicators of compromise, while the DVE Score™ offers critical insights into vulnerabilities, assessing the risk of exploitation based on threat actor intent. The company serves a diverse clientele, including global enterprises, financial services, managed security service providers, and governmental entities.

Fyde

Seed Round in 2019
Fyde helps companies with an increasingly distributed workforce to mitigate breach risk by enabling secure access to critical enterprise resources for their employees, partners, contractors, and outsourcers. Fyde’s flagship enterprise product provides granular access controls for your enterprise apps and workloads, continuously monitors access requests, improves the security posture of endpoints and protects user identities against phishing and account takeover attacks.

Excellium Services

Funding Round in 2018
Excellium Services specializes in proactive cybersecurity solutions. It combines Software as a Service (SaaS) models and cloud capabilities to provide real-time incident response, penetration testing, and security operations. The company helps businesses continuously monitor their infrastructure's exposure to vulnerabilities, aiming to enhance overall internet security.

Probely

Seed Round in 2018
Probely offers an automated web vulnerability scanner for agile teams. It identifies security issues in web applications and APIs, providing guidance on remediation. Probely integrates into development processes and CI/CD pipelines to automate security testing.

Arctic Wolf Networks

Series C in 2018
Arctic Wolf Networks offers cloud-native security operations technology, providing Managed Detection and Response, Managed Risk, and Managed Cloud Monitoring services. Its team of concierge security engineers acts as an extension of clients' internal teams, offering tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management to protect valuable business data.

Beamy

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Beamy is a technology company that offers an application integration platform designed to streamline the management of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications within large organizations. As businesses increasingly adopt a decentralized approach to digital transformation, they often encounter challenges with Shadow IT, where departments utilize software without informing IT teams. Beamy's platform automatically detects all SaaS applications in use, including those operating in the shadows, allowing organizations to effectively manage their entire SaaS stack. This capability helps mitigate GDPR risks, manage security breaches, and optimize expenses. Additionally, Beamy fosters improved communication between IT departments and business units by providing a collaborative platform where the latter can efficiently request the implementation of necessary tools while adhering to security standards and compliance policies. Overall, Beamy simplifies the selection and management of technology applications, offering visual representations of software usage, monitoring their impact against key performance indicators, and reducing the complexity of password management.

Reblaze

Series A in 2018
Reblaze Technologies Ltd. is a provider of cloud-based web security solutions, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with additional offices in Sunnyvale, California, and Manchester, United Kingdom. The company specializes in securing websites, web applications, and APIs through its comprehensive platform, which includes a web application firewall, DDoS protection, bot mitigation, content delivery network, and traffic management services. By blocking hostile traffic in the cloud before it reaches protected networks, Reblaze ensures the safety of customers' data and web assets. The platform leverages machine learning for adaptive threat detection, utilizes dedicated Virtual Private Clouds for enhanced privacy, and features a user-friendly management console for real-time traffic control. Reblaze's infrastructure is designed for optimal performance and precise traffic regulation, providing organizations with a reliable defense against online threats.

Nextel S.A.

Private Equity Round in 2018
Nextel S.A. is an information technology engineering and consulting company based in Zamudio, Spain, founded in 1988. The firm specializes in managing telecommunications and IT services, offering a wide range of solutions that include information security services, critical infrastructure protection, business continuity planning, and IT governance. Its portfolio features advanced services such as ethical hacking, cyber security, and compliance with various ISO standards. Additionally, Nextel S.A. provides innovative technologies like NextRisk, aimed at preventing and controlling labor, physical, and cyber risks, and CloudNSF, which facilitates the outsourcing of security management systems for public administrations. The company caters to a diverse clientele, including public administrations, private enterprises, financial institutions, and global operators, positioning itself as a key player in the IT and telecommunications sectors.

Jscrambler

Series A in 2018
Jscrambler specializes in enterprise-grade security solutions for web and hybrid mobile applications. Its core product, Code Integrity, employs polymorphic obfuscation and self-defensive capabilities to protect JavaScript code from reverse-engineering and tampering attempts, preventing intellectual property theft and data leakage. Additionally, Webpage Integrity offers real-time visibility of client-side attacks like Magecart web skimmers, enabling immediate response. Jscrambler's solutions are compliant with major tech frameworks and trusted by Fortune 500 companies.

Arctic Wolf Networks

Series B in 2018
Arctic Wolf Networks offers cloud-native security operations technology, providing Managed Detection and Response, Managed Risk, and Managed Cloud Monitoring services. Its team of concierge security engineers acts as an extension of clients' internal teams, offering tailored threat detection, response, and ongoing risk management to protect valuable business data.

IriusRisk

Venture Round in 2017
IriusRisk is a Spain-based company specializing in threat modeling solutions for application security. Established in 2015 by Stephen de Vries and Cristina Bentue, the company focuses on integrating security measures into the software design and development process. Its automated platform conducts risk analysis and generates threat models during the design phase, offering actionable recommendations to address potential risks. This approach not only assists developers and security analysts in mitigating vulnerabilities but also enhances collaboration between security and development teams. IriusRisk's clientele includes notable enterprise clients, such as Fortune 500 banks and technology providers, highlighting its effectiveness in improving speed-to-market while avoiding costly security flaws.

Secucloud

Series B in 2017
Secucloud is a global provider of high-availability cybersecurity solutions, specializing in a cloud-based security-as-a-service platform tailored for telecommunications providers and internet service providers (ISPs). Its flagship offering, the Elastic Cloud Security System (ECS2), delivers enterprise-level security to a diverse range of users, including mobile and landline consumers, small businesses, home offices, and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This scalable platform operates without the need for specialized hardware or proprietary appliances, accommodating over 100 million users and their connected devices. Secucloud's services effectively filter out threats such as trojans, spyware, and viruses, enabling individuals and businesses to securely navigate the complexities of modern cyber threats across all IP-based devices.

Probely

Seed Round in 2017
Probely offers an automated web vulnerability scanner for agile teams. It identifies security issues in web applications and APIs, providing guidance on remediation. Probely integrates into development processes and CI/CD pipelines to automate security testing.

SysValue

Private Equity Round in 2016
Sysvalue is specialized in consulting, integration and security services. Focused on interactive business and Internet services, SysValue helps companies get more value from their systems and communications assets, while making them more secure.

S21sec

Acquisition in 2014
S21sec is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing comprehensive security solutions to various sectors, including government, energy, finance, and telecommunications. The company offers a range of services such as risk analysis, regulatory compliance, cloud security, threat hunting, and disaster response planning. Additionally, S21sec operates a 24-hour security intelligence center and has dedicated teams for CyberCrime and incident response, collaborating with law enforcement agencies like Europol and the FBI. With a strong client base that includes over 20% of the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 companies, S21sec is committed to helping organizations safeguard their critical infrastructures and protect personal data from cyber threats.
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