Zepo Intelligence secures $15M in seed funding to combat AI-driven social engineering with a human-centric workspace security platform.
Zepo Intelligence, a company focused on redefining human-centric security, has raised $15 million in seed funding. The round drew participation from Kibo Ventures, eCAPITAL, and TIN Capital.
The timing is deliberate. Traditional cybersecurity defenses—standalone awareness training, static email filters, and perimeter-based controls—are increasingly ineffective as generative AI supercharges social engineering. According to the World Economic Forum, social engineering attacks have surged by 1,200 percent since the launch of ChatGPT, contributing to more than $1 trillion in global losses in 2024.
Zepo is positioning itself at the intersection of human behavior and machine intelligence. Its workspace security platform combines human risk management with real-time threat detection, allowing organizations to simulate realistic, AI-driven attacks—from deepfakes and voice impersonation to cross-platform messaging and highly personalized phishing. The goal: expose human vulnerabilities before attackers do, and reinforce readiness through behavior-based training and real-time performance metrics.
Rather than treating people as the weakest link, Zepo’s model assumes they are the most targeted one. The platform offers continuous protection across multiple digital communication channels within a single, proactive security framework—an approach designed for a threat landscape where attacks no longer arrive neatly by email alone.
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“Artificial intelligence has transformed social engineering into one of the most serious risks organizations face,” said Antonio Muñoz, CEO and co-founder of Zepo Intelligence. As attackers adopt generative AI and multi-vector, personalized tactics, he noted, legacy defenses built around isolated tools can no longer keep pace. Zepo’s answer is what the company calls “agentic social intelligence” for the modern workspace.
The fresh capital will be used to expand Zepo’s team and accelerate global deployment of its proprietary technology. A new hiring push is already underway, with a focus on data engineering and artificial intelligence.
Enrique Holgado, CPTO and co-founder, emphasized that AI sits at the core of the platform—and of the company’s culture. Zepo aims to create an environment where engineers can build advanced systems at the convergence of AI and cybersecurity, an area where demand is rising as fast as the threats themselves.
Buoyed by fivefold year-over-year revenue growth and adoption among several global enterprises, Zepo plans to scale operations across Europe and the United States over the next 18 months. With this investment, the company is betting that the future of cybersecurity will be won not just by smarter machines—but by better-prepared humans.
