Riot

Cybersecurity awareness for fast growing companies

tryriot.com

HQ: Paris, Île-de-France, France

51-200

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Riot is a private cybersecurity SaaS company founded through Y Combinator that helps organizations measure and improve employee security posture. Its platform combines awareness training, phishing simulations, employee-security monitoring, breach and permission-drift detection, and conversational guidance to reduce human-centered cyber risk.

Primary product

Riot Employee Security Posture Management (ESPM): a platform with Awareness, Studio, Simulation, Sonar, Inbox, Slash, Breaches, and the Albert cyber coach, integrated with tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, email, Google, Microsoft, and Okta.

Founded

2020

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States (company and LinkedIn listings); Riot also has a major Paris, France office/HQ presence in recruiting materials.

Team size

Approximately 100–160 employees; third-party listings report 105–107, 100–150, or approximately 160.

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Computer and Network Security

Sub-industry

Employee security posture management / cybersecurity awareness and human-risk management

Offices

San Francisco, United States

Paris, France

Business model

B2B SaaS

Enterprise cybersecurity software

Per-employee or organization-based subscription is implied, but public pricing is not disclosed

Demo-led sales

Funding

Stage

Series B

Total raised

$45M

Latest round

Series B · Feb 2025

Latest amount

$30M

Series B

Feb 2025 · Left Lane Capital

$30M

Series A

Feb 2023 · Base10 Partners

$12M

Seed

Mar 2020 · Y Combinator

$2.2M

Seed / Y Combinator pre-seed

Mar 2020 · Y Combinator

$2.2M

People & investors

Leadership

Benjamin Netter

Founder and CEO

Louis Cibot

Co-founder and CTO

Clement Foltzer

VP Sales & Partnerships

Mélanie C.

VP Customer Success (Interim)

Pierre N.

Head of Product

Zoé Blanchard

Head of People

Henry de Roquefeuil

Head of North America Sales

Nathaniel Hobson

UK Country Manager

Investors

Work & culture

Riot publicly emphasizes an ambitious, high-ownership, doer-oriented culture, employee empowerment, and investment in office culture. Job material describes engineers as involved in product and architecture decisions. Available evidence points to office-based/hybrid work rather than fully remote work.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

A public DevOps AWS posting listed €45,000–€90,000 annually. Other role-specific compensation data was not located; this should not be generalized across the company.

Product & market

Pricing

Public pricing was not found; Riot appears to use demo/contact-sales enterprise SaaS pricing.

Differentiators

—Employee Security Posture Management rather than training-only awareness software
—Real-time monitoring and nudges for employee security weaknesses
—Contextual cyber-coach guidance through Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and email
—Unified Karma security score
—Coverage spanning awareness, simulations, permissions, breaches, email security, and employee support
—Localized platform available in 33 languages

Technology

AWS

AWS ECS Fargate

Aurora PostgreSQL

Elixir

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

Terraform

Atlantis

Kubernetes (under evaluation)

Datadog

GitHub Actions

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Stripe Billing

Figma

HubSpot

Snyk

Customers

Mistral AI

Modern Treasury

L’Occitane

Deel

Intercom

Le Monde

Deezer

Competitors

KnowBe4

SoSafe

HoxHunt

Adaptive

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

At least $10M annual revenue in 2024 according to Riot; third-party estimate approximately $27.5M. A defensible public-evidence range is $10M–$27.5M.

Estimated monthly visits

109.3K

Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026

support@tryriot.com +1 415-881-1199

Latest news

Riot Raises $30 Million in Series B Funding to Revolutionize Employee Cybersecurity

PR Newswire · Feb 2025

Press release stating the round was led by Left Lane Capital and that Riot’s total capital reached $45M; it also named Benjamin Netter (CEO) and Louis Cibot (CTO).

Riot raises $30 million for its cybersecurity product suite focused on employees

TechCrunch · Feb 2025

Reports Riot’s $30M Series B led by Left Lane Capital, valuation above $170M, $10M-plus 2024 revenue, and expansion of employee security posture management.

Riot raises $30 million in Series B funding to champion employee security for the AI era

Riot · Feb 2025

Riot announced the Series B, named participating investors, reported more than $10M in 2024 revenue and 1,500 supported organizations, and described its Albert cyber coach and international plans.

Security Awareness Training Startup Riot Raises $12 Million

SecurityWeek · Feb 2023

SecurityWeek confirmed Riot’s Series A, noted that the company had emerged from Y Combinator, and summarized investor participation and Riot’s product focus at the time.

Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks

TechCrunch · Feb 2023

Coverage of Riot’s $12M Series A led by Base10, its earlier awareness and phishing product, angel investors, and more than $2M ARR at the time.

Jobs and careers at Riot

23 jobs at Riot

Customer Care Specialist (Technical Support)

On-site

Paris

2mo ago

On-site

Full-time