Zepo
Founded 2021 · 76 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Zepo Intelligence provides an AI-powered social intelligence platform designed to protect organizations from social engineering and cybersecurity threats targeting employees. The platform combines AI and threat detection to help enterprises defend against human-targeted attacks in an era of accelerating cybercrime.
Also known as Zepo Intelligence
Founders & leadership
Zepo was founded in 2021 by Antonio Muñoz and Enrique Holgado.
Investors · 4
Also in the syndicate · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Zepo Intelligence, which operates the Zepo platform, is a Spanish company building what it describes as an agentic social intelligence platform for workspace security. The product combines real-time detection of social engineering threats with human risk management, aiming to protect employees across email, chat, SMS, voice and video channels rather than relying on isolated awareness training tools and email filters.
The platform has four connected layers: detection intelligence, which captures live social engineering signals at a gateway layer; a simulation engine that runs AI-powered phishing, smishing, vishing and deepfake scenarios informed by verified threat activity instead of static templates; adaptive, personalized training triggered by risk signals and risky user actions; and risk analytics that consolidate simulation results, detection signals and training outcomes into dashboards and executive reporting. Blocked attacks are converted into targeted training scenarios for the employees involved, and the system builds continuously updated risk profiles across individuals, teams and roles.
The company was founded by two Spanish engineers and serial entrepreneurs, Antonio Muñoz (CEO) and Enrique Holgado (CPTO), whose backgrounds include Wharton, Harvard, McKinsey & Company, Google, Allianz and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). It closed a $15 million Seed round in December 2025, announced in January 2026.
Founding story
Zepo Intelligence was founded by two Spanish engineers and serial entrepreneurs, Antonio Muñoz and Enrique Holgado, who framed the company around the gap left by traditional cybersecurity as attackers began exploiting generative AI for multi-vector, personalized attacks on employees.
Business model
Zepo sells an enterprise software platform to organizations, bundling threat detection, attack simulation, security training and human-risk analytics in a single system that integrates with a customer's existing security stack.
Traction
The company reports 5x year-over-year revenue growth and use by several global enterprises. Published customer references cite deployments protecting more than 9,000 employees, more than 600 employees and more than 100 employees, with reported reductions in click rates on simulated attacks and credential submission and increases in training completion.
Latest developments
In January 2026 Zepo Intelligence announced a $15 million Seed round, carried out in December 2025, led by TIN Capital with participation from Kibo Ventures and eCAPITAL. Proceeds are earmarked for hiring in data engineering and AI, international platform expansion, and more sophisticated simulations and analytics.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Zepo positions itself against generic security awareness platforms, arguing that isolated training tools and email filters do not address multi-vector, generative-AI-enabled social engineering. Its investors describe the human factor as a persistent gap in cybersecurity and the company as an early mover in human-centric, AI-driven security platforms.
The company differentiates by connecting real-time threat detection with simulation, training and analytics in one platform, feeding verified live attack signals into simulations rather than using static templates, and supporting orchestrated attacks spanning phishing, smishing, vishing and real-time deepfakes with per-person adaptive responses.
Technology
The platform ingests real-time detection signals from a gateway layer covering email, chat, SMS, voice and video, and uses AI to generate learning modules and orchestrated multi-channel simulations, including real-time deepfake and vishing scenarios. Detection signals, behavioral patterns and training data feed 360-degree employee risk profiles that determine which intervention, coaching or scoring action is triggered for each person. AI is described by the company as the core of the platform, and the funding is directed toward data engineering and AI hiring.
Go-to-market
Enterprise security and risk leaders — roles cited include information security managers, cybersecurity and digital product managers, and directors of risk intelligence — at organizations ranging from a few hundred to several thousand employees; the company states it is already used by several global enterprises.
Geography
Spanish company with origins in Southern Europe; teams are distributed across New York, Madrid, Tel Aviv and Mexico City, with stated plans to expand operations in Europe and the US.
History
Founded by Antonio Muñoz and Enrique Holgado in Spain, the company grew from Southern European origins into a distributed organization with teams in New York, Madrid, Tel Aviv and Mexico City. It was named by Google as one of the 15 most innovative cybersecurity and AI startups in the world and was selected by CrowdStrike, NVIDIA and Amazon for a cybersecurity accelerator program, before closing a $15 million Seed round in December 2025.
Risks & controversies
Public performance figures such as 5x revenue growth, threat-blocking volumes and behavior-change percentages are company-reported and not independently verified. The company also shares its name with unrelated businesses, including an Indian e-commerce software provider.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsZepo Intelligence states it was named by Google as one of the 15 most innovative cybersecurity and AI startups in the world.
Following the Seed round, the company said it plans to increase headcount, focused on data engineering and AI talent, and expand operations in Europe and the US over the next 18 months.
Zepo Intelligence announced the closing of a $15 million Seed round, carried out in December 2025, led by TIN Capital with participation from Kibo Ventures and eCAPITAL. Funds are to be used for hiring in data engineering and AI, international expansion of the platform, and enhanced simulation and analytics capabilities.
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Zepo Intelligence states it was selected by CrowdStrike, NVIDIA and Amazon to participate in a cybersecurity accelerator program.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Zepozepo.app · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Zepo do?
- Zepo Intelligence is a Spanish human-centric security platform that detects and simulates AI-driven social engineering attacks.
- Who founded Zepo?
- Zepo was founded by Antonio Muñoz, Enrique Holgado in 2021.
- Who are Zepo's investors?
- Zepo's investors include Kibo Ventures, TIIN Capital.