FinTech Collective Invests in Strike

We are very pleased to announce FinTech Collective’s investment in Strike, an AI powered cybersecurity infrastructure company for financial enterprises, focused on redefining continuous pentesting. Strike is transforming the offensive security landscape by combining elite security experts with AI-driven automation to detect, retest, and remediate security gaps faster than attackers can exploit them.

As financial institutions rapidly develop and scale digital products, cybersecurity infrastructure has become a critical foundation to protect sensitive data and prevent cyberattacks. In Latin America, fintech adoption has accelerated rampantly in the last years, but security expertise has not kept pace, leaving companies and customers vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated threats. Traditional security measures, reliant on manual processes and fragmented systems, struggle to keep up with AI-driven fraud, deepfake scams, and unauthorized access attempts. The urgency is clear—Latin America and the Caribbean is the world's fastest-growing region for disclosed cyber incidents, with a 25% average annual growth rate over the last decade, according to the World Bank. While the opportunity in Latin America remains massive, Strike is also demonstrating encouraging early growth in the US, securing contracts with fintechs and financial institutions seeking proactive security solutions. Motivated by increased regulatory pressure, US companies are looking for cybersecurity solutions that go beyond compliance to provide real-time, offensive security. Strike’s penetration testing and vulnerability management platform is thus gaining traction among US enterprises, reinforcing its position as a fast-rising, global cybersecurity player.

We were introduced to Santiago in New York through Greyhound - a globally renowned investor with a portfolio of +10 unicorns - who led the company’s Seed round. From our first conversation, it was clear that Santi’s vision and technical expertise positioned Strike to redefine global offensive cybersecurity. As an ethical hacker who began uncovering vulnerabilities at just 6 years old, Santiago gained firsthand experience with enterprise security gaps while working at PedidosYa and DeliveryHero. Recognizing the need for a more proactive, attacker-minded approach to cybersecurity, he founded Strike with early backing from the founders of PedidosYa - entrepreneurs who had previously built and exited a high-growth company, bringing invaluable operational expertise to support him. Complementing Santiago’s leadership, Sebastián Kaiser, Strike’s CTO, brings decades of engineering experience from his time leading development at Despegar, while Co-Founder Facundo López, as VP of Product, drives innovation to ensure Strike remains at the forefront of cybersecurity.

We are excited to back the team’s mission to redefine global cybersecurity, empowering security teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities with unprecedented speed and scale. The company raised $13.5 million in Series A funding, led by FinTech Collective, with participation from Greyhound Capital, Canary, FJ Labs, Carao and Galicia Ventures.