Konvu won the Cyber Startup Award 2026 at Infosecurity Europe. The winner was announced live at Excel London today.
Three weeks ago we wrote about being a finalist. It's the inaugural edition of the award, run with UK Cyber Flywheel. Five finalists were selected from a worldwide field, and all five pitched live on stage to an audience of security leaders, investors and buyers. I pitched for Konvu: ten minutes on agentic vulnerability triage and remediation, and why the way most teams handle scanner findings doesn't scale.
What the judges saw
Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks, announced the winner and explained the panel's pick:
"Security teams will still need to do the same jobs they do today, but they'll need to do them 100 times faster and at 100 times the scale. You simply can't achieve that using the old approach. What stood out about the award winner was the strength of their vision. They identified a compelling entry point, expanded it into a platform strategy and addressed a genuine market problem."
That first sentence is the thesis Konvu is built on. Hearing it from the judges, unprompted, was the best part of my day.
Why the timing is right
Frontier models like Mythos are getting very good at finding new vulnerabilities. The same capability is in attackers' hands, so the window between discovery and exploitation is collapsing. Detection is heading toward being largely automated, which moves the bottleneck onto the enterprises who have to triage and fix. That's where Konvu comes in: cut the load off security teams and remediate at the speed attackers now operate.
That's what I pitched, and it means a lot that it resonated. We're an early-stage company, and trust is everything in security. Awards like this add a layer of it.
We also held a session on vulnerability management
The award wasn't our only stage time. I was back on the Cyber Startups stage for a talk: "Building a Mythos-ready Vulnerability Management Program." Not a product pitch. A session on surviving the current volume of findings with exploitability-based prioritization and SLAs both engineering and security can defend.
Merci
Thank you to the judges, Shlomo Kramer, Mun Valiji and Kirsty Kelly, and to the Infosecurity Europe team for putting startups on a real stage. Congrats to the other finalists: Cytidel, Datambit, Ploy and RedCarbon. The pitches were strong, and the win means more for it.
The prize includes a stand at Infosecurity Europe 2027, so we'll be back next year.
If you want to see what we pitched, on your own backlog, book a working session.