Berlin's Kazimi Raises €2.2M Pre-Seed to Fight Bot Activity in Mobile Marketing
The mobile cybersecurity startup will scale technology that helps app developers verify first-party data and distinguish real users from automated bots.
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Kazimi, a Berlin-based mobile cybersecurity startup, has closed an oversubscribed €2.2 million pre-seed funding round to expand its technology for securing and verifying the first-party data that app developers rely on for marketing analytics and AI.
The round was led by Market One Capital, with participation from IBB Ventures and a group of mobile and technology industry executives. Those backers include former Rovio chief technology officer Petri Hyökyranta, former Supercell data scientist Janne Peltola, and Erik Massmann, who previously served as chief financial officer of the Birkenstock Group and Sportradar AG.
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