Founding Partner
About IYK
Backing visionaries.
Building Europe's tech future.
We started IYK because we believed Europe deserved a cybersecurity and infrastructure fund run by people who had actually built and sold these products.
Operators first.
Investors second.
IYK was built on a simple premise: the best partners for technical cybersecurity founders are people who have lived inside the problem. Not people who learned it from a deck.
Linda and Claudio have between them scaled cybersecurity businesses from zero to multi-million ARR, built security products deployed in critical infrastructure, and navigated the specific reality of European enterprise and government procurement. That context shapes every conversation we have with founders.
We are not a generalist fund with a cybersecurity vertical. We are a cybersecurity fund — period. Our check sizes, our cadence, and our conviction reflect that specificity.
The People
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Founders who became investors.
What we bring
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Beyond the check.
Go-to-Market
Enterprise GTM for cybersecurity is not the same as enterprise GTM for SaaS. We've closed regulated financial institutions and critical infrastructure operators — and can help founders navigate procurement cycles that would otherwise cost two years.
Technical Depth
We can evaluate architecture, review early product decisions, and help founders think through the tradeoffs that become structural constraints later. We are not a rubber stamp on technical claims.
European Network
Meaningful introductions to enterprise customers, co-investors, and regulators across the European cyber and infrastructure ecosystem. Not a list of contacts — an active network we have worked with directly.
Hiring
Early security hires are career-defining decisions for a company. We help founders define what they actually need, how to assess it, and how to find it in a market where supply is structurally tight.
Honest Partnership
We do not perform enthusiasm. Founders get a clear read on where we are, why, and what it would take to change our view. We would rather be useful once than impressive repeatedly.
We bring the guts, the grit, and the expertise — and we do it together with every founder we choose to back.
Want to talk?
We're open to conversations with founders at any stage — even before you have something to show.