"I have been really impressed by the pitches here, so it means a lot that our solution resonated with the judges," said Lucas Masson, CEO, Konvu, moments after his company won the inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup competition.
Konvu wins onstage at Infosecurity Europe 2026
Konvu was announced the winner live on stage in the Cyber Startups Zone at Infosecurity Europe 2026, selected from five contenders and presented before an audience described as potential customers, partners and investors. The win was the culmination of the event's Cyber Startup competition, which brought founders together to pitch innovation to a judging panel and attendees on the show floor.
What Konvu's platform does — agentic AI triage and evidence-backed decisions
Konvu bills itself as an "AI-native vulnerability triage platform" that automates investigation. According to the company, the platform connects to scanners enterprises already use, runs agent-driven checks across code and configuration (and optional runtime signals), and then returns "evidence-backed exploitability decisions" directly into existing workflows. That combination is presented as a way to move triage decisions closer to actionable remediation inside the tools teams already operate.
Judges highlight vision, prioritization and roadmap
The judging panel praised Konvu for helping organizations determine which vulnerabilities need fixing and which should be prioritized, and noted an "impressive product pipeline and roadmap for expansion." The panel included Shlomo Kramer, co-founder and CEO at Cato Networks; Mun Valiji, group CISO at Close Brothers; and Kirsty Kelly, a global CISO and board and venture advisor.
Shlomo Kramer told the audience that what stood out was "the strength of their vision," praising Konvu's identification of a "compelling entry point," its expansion into a platform strategy, and its focus on a market problem as the combination that set the startup apart.
The prize package: an exhibition stand, PR support and a brand workshop
As the competition winner, Konvu received a prize package that includes an exhibition stand at Infosecurity Europe 2027, public relations support from cybersecurity PR agency Origin Communications, and a future-brand workshop package from Dusted brand consultancy. The package pairs exposure on the Infosecurity Europe stage with external communications and brand development resources.
What this means for security teams, investors, and adversaries
- Security teams and technologists: Konvu's pitch — that triage, not detection, is the emerging bottleneck — frames a near-term operational challenge. Lucas Masson argued that "detection is heading toward being largely automated, which moves the bottleneck onto the enterprises who have to triage and fix," and positioned Konvu as a tool to "cut the load off security teams and remediate at the speed attackers now operate."
- Investors, partners and procurement leaders: The judging panel's emphasis on vision, prioritization and roadmap, together with the award's exposure and the prize package, creates a platform for Konvu to seek commercial traction and partnerships ahead of Infosecurity Europe 2027.
- Adversaries and threat actors: Masson warned that "frontier models like Mythos are getting very good at finding new vulnerabilities, but the same capability is in attackers' hands, so the window between discovery and exploitation is collapsing." That framing positions faster triage and evidence-backed exploitability assessment as a defensive response to a shrinking time-to-exploit.
The Cyber Startup Programme at Infosecurity Europe was designed to "shine a light on the next generation of cybersecurity innovators," according to the event description, by bringing startup founders, investors and ecosystem enablers together through a dedicated show-floor experience. For Konvu, the immediate outcome is visibility and support; for attendees, the takeaways were a fresh entrant pitching to relieve triage pressure and a judging panel endorsing that approach.
Whether Konvu's agent-driven evidence model changes how organizations prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities will be tested as the company pursues its product roadmap and prepares to appear on the Infosecurity Europe floor again in 2027. The judges said the winner’s combination of entry point, platform strategy and pipeline was decisive — but the next measure will be adoption by the security teams Masson described as shouldering the new bottleneck.
