Benjamin Netter

Benjamin Netter is the Founder and CEO of Riot, a cybersecurity training platform based in Paris, France. Leveraging 15 years of product development experience, he began his career by creating a Facebook application that acquired 500,000 users in one week, and later won the Foursquare Global Hackathon with an automated trip planner. Prior to his current venture, Netter co-founded October, an online financing platform for European small and medium businesses. During his tenure, he helped scale the financial technology startup to 110 employees across five international offices while securing $60 million in venture funding. He subsequently launched Riot through Y Combinator in 2020, growing the SaaS business to protect over 200,000 employees across 500 corporate clients. Netter's current focus remains on developing scalable software solutions that address critical vulnerabilities within the global cybersecurity sector.