Cybersecurity is not a product category — it is the foundation on which everything we are building in the AI era must stand. Europe has a 30-year head start in this space. Our job now is to invest that lead forward.
— Valentin TabusValentin Tabus is Venture Partner at Bitdefender Voyager Ventures (BVV), the early-stage investment arm of Bitdefender — a global cybersecurity leader born in Europe. BVV backs startups at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A across cybersecurity, automation, and data-driven technologies, with a strong focus on the European ecosystem.
With over 20 years of investment experience in Southeast Europe, including at Axxess Capital — one of the region's most active investment funds — Tabus brings hands-on expertise across technology and services sectors. He holds a degree in Computer Science and an MBA.
Bitdefender Voyager Ventures is the investment arm of Bitdefender, the Bucharest-founded cybersecurity company that grew from a regional software pioneer into a globally recognised security platform deployed across 170+ countries. BVV's mandate channels Bitdefender's domain expertise and enterprise relationships directly into early-stage capital — backing the security, automation, and data-driven companies that will define Europe's next technology chapter.
For founders operating in these domains, the relationship goes beyond the cheque. BVV offers access to Bitdefender's research teams, threat intelligence infrastructure, and decades of experience building technology in a market where trust is not a feature — it is the entire product. The fund targets the stages where this kind of domain credibility matters most: before product-market fit is fully established and before enterprise customers have been won.
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