RangeForce

Market position

RangeForce was named a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave for Cybersecurity Skills & Training Platforms, while acquirer Cyberbit was named a Leader in the same evaluation. The company describes itself as a pioneer in cloud-based cyber ranges and traces its origins to the platform used for NATO's Locked Shields live-fire exercise.

RangeForce emphasizes team-based exercising in full, live simulated environments rather than individual-only technical training, integrated with solo labs, skills pathways and readiness mapping, and its Defense Readiness Index links team readiness to organizational risk for reporting at a strategic level.

Technology

The platform simulates compromised enterprise environments at scale — rotating IP addresses, live application traffic and lateral movement — using automation and cloud computing to make realistic exercising available without dedicated range infrastructure. It incorporates generative AI in the Content Studio for custom environment creation and an AI-powered adaptive tutor for personalized learning, captures technical and soft-skill performance data, and maps outcomes to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND and NIST. Combined with Cyberbit, the platforms give practitioners hands-on access to more than 25 enterprise-grade security technologies spanning EDR, SIEM, DFIR and firewall products.

Go-to-market

The company sells to enterprises and government buyers directly, with demo requests through its website, and works with channel and ecosystem partners; Carahsoft Technology Corp. is described as a partner to both RangeForce and Cyberbit, providing public-sector contract vehicles. RangeForce also built an ecosystem of training orchestration and security-vendor partners, and stated after its 2020 Series A that it would use proceeds to accelerate go-to-market, advance product development, expand that partner ecosystem and pursue global growth.

Enterprises and government organizations with security operations and incident response teams, spanning established SOCs and developing teams operating in-house, outsourced or hybrid, plus DevOps, web application engineering and industrial control teams. By 2020 more than 100 organizations used the platform, across financial services, technology, government, retail, telecom and healthcare.

Geography

Founded in Tallinn, Estonia, with a workforce distributed worldwide. Company materials list headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware; press coverage has variously described the company as Manassas, Virginia-based (2020) and Virginia-based (2025). The combined company with Cyberbit maintains teams and data centers across the US and EU.

History

After delivering the first Locked Shields exercise in 2015 and launching its first cyber ranges in 2016, RangeForce raised a $1.5M seed round in 2019 led by Paladin Capital Group with Trind Ventures, and launched the official RangeForce platform that year. A $16M Series A followed in July 2020, led by Energy Impact Partners and Paladin Capital Group with Trind Ventures and Cisco Investments. A $20M Series B came in 2022, led by Energy Impact Partners and Paladin Capital Group with Cisco Investments, KPN Ventures, Lapa Capital Partners and Lanx Capital. In 2023 the company launched its readiness program and the Defense Readiness Index. In September 2025, RangeForce was acquired by Boston-based Cyberbit.