Published: June 10, 2026 at 7:59 am
Strand Intelligence, a Manchester-based cybersecurity software company, has closed a £1m seed round.
The round was led by Osney Capital and will be used to accelerate the startup’s hiring and product development plans.
Founded in 2025 and based in Ancoats, Strand is building automation for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), the investigative work that follows a security incident.
Its platform automates investigations across cloud and endpoint environments and claims to deliver investigations up to five times faster.
The company’s co-founders, Will Poole and Oli Fletcher, met as next-door neighbours and developed the idea for Strand while talking over the garden fence.