Helsinki&Oulu-based cybersecurity startup Test of Things has raised €1.2 million in a pre-seed round led by Vendep Capital, with participation from angel investors including Aapo Oksman, Zach Shelby, Neil Costigan, Ääkköset Oy, and ScanABC, alongside public support from Business Finland. The company is building an AI-powered platform that automates cybersecurity testing and compliance for connected devices—replacing slow, manual processes with continuous testing and auto-generated regulatory documentation as frameworks like the EU Cyber Resilience Act tighten requirements. The fresh capital will be used to expand the engineering team and accelerate product development, as the seven-person, pre-revenue startup pushes to help manufacturers ship secure IoT and industrial devices faster while reducing the growing compliance burden. When a company builds a connected device — whether it’s a smart lock, a hospital monitor, or a piece of factory equipment — it has to make sure that device is secure before selling it. That sounds reasonable. The catch is how they do it today: cybersecurity testing and compliance documentation is largely manual work of highly skilled experts, thus very expensive. And it doesn’t scale when today’s market is flooded with connected products. “Cybersecurity of products is in everyone’s interest,” says Marko Kaasila, CEO and co-founder of Test of Things. “But the current way of assuring it — manual, not systematic, and expensive — is unsustainable.” Every insecure device that makes it to market is a potential door left unlocked for cyber criminals to exploit— hack your personal data, the operational systems of the factory, or the controls within an office building, even threatening essential critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid. Test of Things is building a platform that automates cybersecurity compliance testing end-to-end. Instead of a team of cybersecurity experts spending weeks combing through a device’s security manually, their AI-powered software handles the heavy