Inforcer Accelerates Microsoft AI Enablement With $35M Funding Round: ‘The Opportunity Was Now’
Just months after closing a $19 million Series A, Inforcer has secured a $35 million Series B round to double down on AI innovation, Microsoft 365 security automation and global expansion for MSPs.
Fueled by rapid growth, Inforcer’s latest $35 million funding round will go towards supercharging product development, driving AI innovation and helping MSPs unlock Microsoft’s AI capabilities for SMBs.
“There’s been overwhelming interest in this space, especially around Microsoft’s role in solving both security and AI challenges,” Jamie Daum, co-founder and CEO of London-based vendor Inforcer, told CRN. “With the world turning to Microsoft for answers…it was clear the opportunity was now. We knew we had to move fast.”
Inforcer, which specializes in developing software for managing and automating Microsoft 365 policies across multiple tenants, secured the funding round led by Dawn Capital with participation of existing investors, Meritech Capital. The funding comes less than a year after closing $19 million in Series A funding to support its rapid growth, product development and expansion into the U.S. market.
The Series B funding will supercharge Inforcer’s AI roadmap, particularly in areas like AI readiness assessments and Copilot service enablement, helping MSPs not only adopt but also sell AI effectively.
“We’re building out tools that allow MSPs to sell AI-as-a-service,” Daum said. “This means helping them assess environments, configure Microsoft’s stack securely and educate end clients on what these AI tools can do and how to use them safely.”
William Connor, co-founder of Inforcer, said the raise was a natural next step in the company’s journey.
“What we’ve always done, multi-tenant security management for Microsoft, is the mandatory precursor to delivering AI,” he told CRN. “You can’t just turn on Copilot unless everything’s locked down so users can’t ask it whatever they want. We’ve been helping MSPs with the start of the journey, and now we’re moving with them into AI enablement and lifecycle management. We want to be the only tool an MSP needs to manage Microsoft 365 when it comes to security, AI and compliance. Everything: users, groups, policies, permissions, AI services, all multi-tenant, all manageable from Inforcer.”
The company’s recently released AI-powered policy analysis and impact assessments are already helping engineers understand and communicate the effects of Microsoft policies with clear summaries, warnings, examples and comparisons that are all automatically generated.
Inforcer is also rolling out its AI Readiness Assessment Tool that allows MSPs to assess customer environments across licensing, compliance and policy readiness, then act directly on those insights via Inforcer’s automation engine.
“It’s something MSPs can run on their customers, or prospects, to audit the tenant,” said Connor. “It gives them a concrete way to say, ‘Here’s what needs to happen before you’re ready for AI.’ And then they can deliver that work directly through Inforcer.”
“Ultimately, we’re trying to answer the real question MSPs have, ‘What are their customers going to be buying from them in the next 12 to 24 months ?’ And the answer is productivity driven by AI,” Daum added.
And since the last raise, Inforcer has been on an upwards trajectory. The team has grown to 120 employees from 50 last fall, has about 800 MSP partners from about 300 partners last fall and has offices in Tampa, Fla., Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Melbourne, London and New York. They’re also looking to double its U.S. employee headcount from 20 to 40.
Arno Rommens, technical director of public cloud of Netherlands-based MSP TechoneNL, said he feels Inforcer’s “passion” in every interaction with them.
“Inforcer gets it: the tenant is the new server,” he told CRN in a message. “They’re early stage, ambitious and equipped with the right knowledge and drive for M365 tenant management . This partnership is more than a collaboration, it’s a fusion of vision, drive and knowledge which comes together.”
Inforcer’s relationship with Microsoft feeds directly into the vendor’s product roadmap as well. Its AI tools help MSPs prepare their customers’ data environments for Microsoft Copilot, ensuring the right structures and security are in place before AI is rolled out.
“One of the big takeaways was Microsoft’s recognition that many MSPs feel misunderstood by them,” Daum said. “That’s where we come in, we act as a conduit between Microsoft and the MSP community.”
And with a Series C round already on the horizon, Inforcer is aiming to become the default AI security and automation platform for the MSP space.
“Our goal is to be the platform MSPs trust to manage every part of the Microsoft stack,” Connor said. “And to bring AI to their clients in a secure, scalable and profitable way.”
Pictured in the photo above: Will Conner, Inforcer co-founder (right), and Jamie Daum, co-founder and CEO.