ROME, Italy & PARIS, France – March 13, 2025 – Cyber Guru, the leading cybersecurity awareness training platform, has announced today its acquisition of Mantra, a leading French start-up specialising in employee awareness and protection. This strategic merger brings together the teams, expertise, and resources of both companies to advance the mission of strengthening employee awareness and resilience against cyber threats and helping organisations better defend against cyberattacks.
Founded in 2017, Cyber Guru is one of the fastest-growing startups in Southern Europe, offering a modern security awareness training platform for organisations of any size. With over 700 customers, Cyber Guru helps change employee behaviours, manage human risk, and achieve compliance with minimal effort. Today, more than 1 million users in 90+ countries are trained through Cyber Guru’s automated learning paths powered by a proprietary AI-driven Machine Learning model.
By joining forces, Cyber Guru will integrate Mantra’s fully automated security awareness training solutions, including real-time defence and chat-enabled awareness training, which have seen tremendous adoption and growth. The two companies’ platforms will combine their advanced ML engines and over 340 billion data points. This collaboration will enhance the machine learning training models, enabling the delivery of highly personalised and effective security training experiences for the combined global customer base of 1,000+ organisations and over 1.5 million active users.
“Joining forces with Mantra marks a significant step in our international expansion and portfolio growth, enabling us to better serve our customers with the most advanced technologies on the market,” said Gianni Baroni, CEO of Cyber Guru. “It marks a significant step toward solidifying our position as Europe’s foremost experts in Cybersecurity Awareness—a goal that has always been our top priority.”
As part of the agreement, the entire Mantra team will join Cyber Guru, including its co-founders, who will become part of the leadership team. Mantra CEO Gaspard Droz will join as Country Managing Director for France and Mantra CTO Guillaume Charhon will join as the Group Chief Architect.
“By combining the go-to-market strengths of Mantra and Cyber Guru, coupled with our cutting-edge technology leadership in AI, machine learning and automation, we are well-positioned to become the leading provider of cybersecurity awareness solutions across Europe,” said Gaspard Droz, CEO of Mantra. “I am thrilled to offer our clients an expanded portfolio of solutions designed to strengthen their security posture while bringing more high-value programs to our partners.”
The newly merged company is poised to create outstanding value for customers, employees, and stakeholders. Leaders from both organisations will collaborate closely to advance their shared mission of solidifying their market-leading position in France and across Europe while rapidly expanding product offerings to better serve new and existing customers. The company is committed to significantly accelerating its growth trajectory over the next 12 months, leveraging strategic initiatives and innovative solutions to achieve remarkable expansion.
Built on a foundation of shared values, the company also intends to expand its workforce in France, and Italy, increasing its overall presence in the French market and significantly boosting human capital investments in R&D.
About Cyber Guru
Cyber Guru is the most effective cybersecurity awareness training platform, enabling organisations to increase their resistance to cyber-attacks by changing employee behaviour. The platform trains employees to become the first line of defence against cyber threats, while minimising the impact on organisational productivity. Leveraging a proprietary AI-powered, adaptive Machine Learning model and behavioural science methodology, Cyber Guru offers a holistic security awareness training platform that is engaging, effective, and which delivers a real improvement in an organisation’s security posture. Leading organisations of all sizes and verticals, in the public and private sector, rely on Cyber Guru to transform employee awareness of, and resilience to, sophisticated attacks – ultimately creating a human barrier against cyber-crime. For more information, please visit www.cyberguru.io
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