London-based Inforcer, a provider of Microsoft multi-tenant management solutions, has raised $19M (approx. €17.53M) in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by Meritech Capital, a provider-focused firm serving the managed service provider (MSP) community following previous investments in Huntress and Rewst.
Tanner Bhonslay of Meritech Capital joins Inforcer’s board along with Christian Nagele, a former co-founder of Centrastage (now Datto RMM).
Bhonslay says: “Jamie (co-founder) and the enforcer team truly embody the Channel-First mentality and have dedicated their careers to improving MSPs’ operations.”
“By streamlining the configuration of Microsoft security policies in a multi-tenant manner, inforcer enables MSPs to strengthen their security posture, increase internal efficiencies and upsell new security offerings, ensuring MSPs remain competitive amid a rapidly changing landscape.”
Capital utilization
Inforcer co-founder Jamie Daum says, “With inforcer, we’re helping MSPs differentiate and build new Microsoft security service offerings that were previously unscalable. To help with the high cost of Microsoft experts, we’re building a community and a learning path for MSPs to upskill their teams and strengthen their client security.”
“Ultimately, inforcer enables MSPs to sell recurring, high-margin services backed by a globally recognized brand that end users already trust and rely on, Microsoft.”
“This industry has always thrived under healthy, near-joint competition, driven by the openness of MSPs to share knowledge among themselves,” adds Daum.
The funds will help Inforcer support its research, development and improvement of its technologies. This will speed up product updates and allow for faster introduction of new features.
Simplifying security policies
Founded in 2022 by Jamie Daum, Will Connor, Rory McInerney and Richard Thompson, Inforcer uses Microsoft 365’s built-in security technologies to help managed service providers (MSPs) secure end-user environments and ensure compliance with cybersecurity regulations.
Inforcer automates the deployment of Microsoft policies and security baselines across multiple tenants, a process typically handled manually, enabling MSPs to offer new security services based on existing Microsoft technologies included in clients’ licenses .
The company provides continuous reporting, remediation tools and regular product updates in accordance with Microsoft’s release schedule, helping MSPs leverage the Secure Score-as-a-Service initiative, a key Microsoft focus.
CEO Daum says: “Having seen the evolution from break-fix to managed services and more recently to managed security services, we are seeing a trend towards MSPs re-skilling their teams to leverage the Microsoft security stack and becoming Managed Microsoft Security Service Providers – what we call MSP 2.0.”
Inforcer offers rapid deployment of Microsoft tenants and security policies, in-depth auditing and reporting on policy changes, daily backups with on-demand recovery, automated customer-specific security policies, optional policy libraries for regulatory compliance, and tools to demonstrate the benefits of security services to end users.
Since launching in 2022, Inforcer has been adopted by major MSPs across North America, EMEA and APAC, becoming a key tool in their software stack.