Cyan has added further international experience and expertise to its burgeoning team with the appointment of Gavin Cowie as VP of Engineering. Gavin is a highly experienced engineering director with a 20-year track record of working with scaling, venture-backed, ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) businesses in the United States. He joins Cyan from Bellhop Inc….
Cyan has added significant global technology and human capital expertise to its board with the appointment of Ciara Smyth as non-executive director. Ciara brings over 20 years of impressive executive experience to Cyan, having helped scale several global organisations as an executive, such as King (the gaming company behind Candy Crush), Paddy Power Betfair and…
Investor, advisor and entrepreneur Tobin Ireland has joined the board of Cyan as Non-Executive Director. With a successful background as a corporate executive, chairman/NXD of scale-up businesses and co-founder of data and technology start-ups, Tobin will be a valuable addition to Cyan’s board. With 25 years experience working as a senior executive in the digital…
Today, Monday 29 March 2021, Cyan successfully completed a Series A investment round of just over £5 million led by Par Equity. Lead investor Par Equity is joined in this round by existing investors Mercia, Triple Point, SIS Ventures, Scottish Enterprise and the MacLeod Family Trust. This new round of funding brings Cyan’s support to date to just over £8m and will accelerate Cyan’s ambitious global growth plan over the next two years. Ian Stevenson, CEO of Cyan, said: “Our technology is already making a significant impact within…
Cyan has created a new Advisory Board to provide strategic input as it works towards significant growth internationally and into new markets. Initial appointments to this board are Sir Mark Rowley, Andy Williams and former chair Simon Hardy, who between them have vast experience of sales, marketing and operations in law enforcement markets around the world. Chosen to provide strategic counsel based on decades of…
Cyan Forensics, the Edinburgh-based company delivering technologies to help law enforcement find child abuse and terrorist material extraordinarily fast, today announced a new partnership with Susteen, the California-based developer of mobile forensic tools. Bringing together two leading capabilities, this will deliver a portable, easy to use rapid triage capability for smartphones. This strategic alliance will…
Scottish startup Cyan Forensics, which develops digital forensic technology to help law enforcement catch criminals faster, has closed a £900,000 investment round led by Mercia Fund Managers, bringing its total funding to nearly £1.5million since it was founded in 2016. Edinburgh-based Cyan Forensics’ technology finds time-critical digital evidence in minutes instead of days, helping police…
At The Investigator’s upcoming events for Digital Media Investigators, Cyan Forensics’ Bruce Ramsay will explore key issues around digital triage workflow. The in-force technology days take place nationwide in September, October and November, and feature presentations on all areas of Digital Forensics. Demonstrations of Cyan Forensics’ 20x faster digital forensics triage tools will be available. Triage and…
Cyan Forensics is launching Cyan Examiner, the first product from a new generation of ultra-fast digital forensics tools, at Forensics Expo Europe 2017 (London Olympia, 3-4 May). Searching seized computers is a slow process, consuming valuable person-hours, delaying availability of evidence, and causing backlogs in many digital forensics labs. This leads to risks that suspects…