Beelzebub raises €3M
Beelzebub announced a Seed round of €3M on 27 July 2026. The company operates in Cybersecurity and is based in Italy. It was founded by Mario Candela, Founder & CEO.
Founder
Mario Candela
Founder & CEO, Beelzebub
Outreach angles
- -Candela created the open-source Beelzebub honeypot framework, an LLM-powered deception project he started in Milan in 2021, and is a member of The Honeynet Project.
- -He started programming at age 11 and founded the hacking community OpenH4ck at 14.
- -The €3M seed funds a research-team expansion and new offices in Rome and San Francisco.
Signals
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Round details
Company: Beelzebub
Domain: beelzebub.ai
Amount: €3M
Stage: Seed
Industry: Cybersecurity
Country: Italy
Announced: 27 July 2026
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