London’s Safehire.ai, founded by ex-British Army officers, secures €583.2k to scale AI-powered digital risk screening

Safehire.ai, a London-based digital risk intelligence firm backed by former British Army officers, has successfully raised €583.2k in a follow-on investment. This brings the company's total funding to €1.8 million after securing a Seed round in April 2025. Simon Holden, co-founder and CEO, highlighted that the investment will enable Safehire to scale its Digital Risk Screening platform beyond education, cater to larger enterprise needs, develop its insider risk capability, and expand into new markets.

The company aims to address the growing digital risk visibility gap in hiring and workforce integrity, where traditional checks often fail to uncover relevant digital exposure, behavioral risk, or online activity. Safehire's DRS platform combines large language model capabilities trained on military intelligence methods with human verification by ex-military intelligence-trained analysts.

This allows organizations to conduct over 10,000 searches per day at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods, with a reported time-saving of 1 hour per candidate for one large multi-academy trust. The platform searches surface, deep, and dark web sources for digital risk signals, with findings reviewed by human analysts before being reported.

Safehire.ai serves sectors such as education, care, sport, charities, regulated workforces, public-sector supply chains, financial services, and critical infrastructure.