/Companies

Watchtowr

New York, US · Founded 2021 · 73 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors

Find your way into Watchtowr

Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Watchtowr

  • Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to the Watchtowr team. We find them for you
  • 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
  • Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone

Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.

watchTowr offers a preemptive exposure management platform that maps an organization's external attack surface, uses AI to prioritize vulnerabilities likely to be exploited, runs automated red teaming to validate exploitability, and deploys mitigation rules to edge defenses like WAF, IDS, and IPS. It draws on an in-house threat research group and a global honeypot network to detect real-world exploitation.

Founders & leadership

Watchtowr was founded in 2021 by Benjamin Harris.

BHBenjamin Harris
Benjamin HarrisFounder & CEOBenjamin Harris is the founder and CEO of watchTowr, an AI-powered exposure management platform serving financial institutions and critical infrastructure. He holds multiple cybersecurity certifications including CISSP and CCSP, previously served as an examination assessor and board member for CREST, and has advised on banking regulatory compliance and red teaming frameworks across Singapore, the UK, and Hong Kong.

Investors · 5

Frequently asked questions

What does Watchtowr do?
watchTowr offers a preemptive exposure management platform that maps an organization's external attack surface, uses AI to prioritize vulnerabilities likely to be exploited, runs automated red teaming to validate exploitability, and deploys mitigation rules to edge defenses like WAF, IDS, and IPS. It draws on an in-house threat research group and a global honeypot network to detect real-world exploitation.
Who founded Watchtowr?
Watchtowr was founded by Benjamin Harris in 2021.
Who are Watchtowr's investors?
Watchtowr's investors include Peak XV Partners, Prosus Ventures, Wavemaker Impact, Wavemaker Pacific, Wavemaker Partners.
Where is Watchtowr headquartered?
Watchtowr is headquartered in New York, US.