CyberSpark

Name

CyberSpark

Legal name

Cyberspark Group Ltd

Website

https://cyberspark.org.il

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

CyberSpark is a non-profit cyber ecosystem headquartered in Beer-Sheva, Israel, with a UK operating entity (Cyberspark Group Ltd) that runs the Hack the Isles cybersecurity competition across five UK and Ireland regions, convening 300+ emerging cyber talent participants for industry and government stakeholders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cybersecurity Ecosystem & Talent Development

NAICS

Computer Training (61142)

akta.pro primary industry

Cybersecurity (General) (EDAOAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cybersecurity Training & Awareness Programs (BPAEANAF), Penetration Testing, Red Team & Ethical Hacking (EDAOAIAH), Cybersecurity (EDAAAPAC)

Keywords

• Cybersecurity ecosystem
• Cyber talent development
• Cybersecurity competitions
• Cyber training events
• Cybersecurity community

Headquarters

HQ city

Be'er Sheva

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Competition and Event Management: CyberSpark organizes and hosts cybersecurity competitions such as Hack the Isles, bringing together talent from across the UK and Ireland. Revenue appears to be generated through event sponsorship, partnerships with technical providers, and government/industry collaboration arrangements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

CyberSpark operates cybersecurity competitions and ecosystem programs that identify and develop emerging cyber talent. Its flagship offering, the Hack the Isles competition, runs regional bootcamps, online qualifiers, and a live final event engaging more than 300 participants across the UK and Ireland. The competitions use a professional-grade cyber range platform (provided by CybExer) to deliver immersive, scenario-based challenges that mirror real-world security threats faced by industry and government.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hack the Isles Competition

Quantifiable outcome

• 300+ participants engaged across regional and online qualification stages

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• CybExercoreTechnology or Integration · 13 February 2026CybExer serves as the technical partner for the Hack the Isles Live Final competition, providing an immersive cyber range platform designed to replicate contemporary security challenges faced by industry and government. The partnership enables realistic, scenario-based competition environments for participants.

Scale indicators2 records

Direct peers

• Cyber Security Challenge UK: UK-based non-profit that runs national cybersecurity competitions to identify and develop emerging cyber talent for industry and government. The closest direct analogue to CyberSpark's Hack the Isles model, sharing the same talent-pipeline GTM and government/employer sponsorship base.
• TryHackMe: Gamified, hands-on cybersecurity learning platform with large UK user base and a community of beginner-to-intermediate practitioners. Directly comparable on the participant-facing learning/competition experience side and overlaps in target audience of emerging cyber talent.
• Hack The Box: Global cybersecurity upskilling and competition platform with CTF-style challenges, talent rankings, and enterprise hiring products. Overlaps with CyberSpark on red-team/pen-test competition format and on monetising participant skill data for employers.
• Immersive Labs: Enterprise cyber skills-readiness platform offering exercises, simulations, and competitions to develop and benchmark security teams. Compares on the cyber-range/cyber-exercise delivery model and on selling employer-relevant talent signal, though skews more to enterprise upskilling than individual talent discovery.
• National Cyber League (US): US-based cybersecurity competition season comprising individual and team rounds for students and emerging professionals. Mirrors CyberSpark's competition-as-talent-pipeline model and serves as a useful comparator for how a national competition format can be structured and scaled.
• RangeForce: Cyber range and skills assessment platform used by enterprises and governments to train and benchmark security teams. Compares to CyberSpark on the cyber-range experience side and on producing employer-ready skill signal from participants.

Broad incumbents

• SANS Institute: Global incumbent in cybersecurity training and certifications, including the Cyber Defense and NetWars competition programmes. Overlaps with CyberSpark in addressing cyber skills development and in being a credible destination for emerging talent, but operates at significantly larger scale and a different GTM.
• EC-Council: Global cybersecurity certification and training body (e.g., CEH) with a portfolio of programmes and competitions aimed at building the cyber workforce. Adjacent incumbent whose training-and-certification funnel overlaps with CyberSpark's emerging-talent development thesis.

Others

• CybExer: Estonian cyber range provider whose platform underpins the Hack the Isles Live Final. Provides the technical foundation comparable to what CyberSpark delivers to participants and is the closest infrastructure counterpart, though positioned as a vendor rather than a sponsor/competitor.

Emerging players

• CyberTalents: Africa-based cybersecurity competition and talent-discovery platform with a similar mission of identifying and ranking emerging cyber talent via CTF-style events. Comparable in operating model and target persona (emerging cyber talent, employer sponsorship), though geographically distinct.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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