# Flare

> Flare is a Montreal cybersecurity company whose SaaS platform collects intelligence from the dark and clear web, identifies organization-specific exposures, and connects leaked identity data to investigation, validation and remediation workflows. It serves security teams and service providers internationally.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Montreal, Canada
- **Founders:** Mathieu Lavoie (Co-founder; CTO in July 2025 press kit), Israël Hallé (Co-founder and Chief Architect), Yohan Trépanier Montpetit (Co-founder; COO in July 2025 press kit), David Hétu (Co-founder and Chief Research Officer in October 2019 investor announcement; current role unverified)
- **Products:** Flare threat intelligence platform, Identity Exposure Management, AI-powered threat actor profiling, Flare CTI expansion, Foretrace
- **Notable:** Acquired Foretrace in March 2024., Named a Deloitte 2025 Technology Fast 50 winner in its November 2025 funding release., Reported customers and partners in over 50 countries in November 2025.

## Products & services

- **Flare threat intelligence platform** — Subscription software for collecting, searching, monitoring and prioritizing external cybercrime intelligence and organization-specific exposures.
- **Identity Exposure Management** — Monitoring of exposed identities and stealer logs with validation and remediation through Microsoft Entra ID; Okta support announced in June 2026.
- **AI-powered threat actor profiling** — Summaries of threat-actor posting histories and investigation context.
- **Flare CTI expansion** — Intelligence Browser, audience-specific AI reporting, sandbox/file analysis and STIX/TAXII feeds announced in June 2026.
- **Foretrace** — Acquired data exposure technology in 2024; currently also offered as employee-focused identity and PII exposure monitoring.
- **Takedown services** — Paid assistance addressing qualifying malicious domains, impersonation, repository leaks and other external exposures; some packages include requests.
- **Flare Academy** — Practitioner training and a cybersecurity community.
- **Darkroom** — Free four-hour self-paced training in a simulated underground ecosystem, with interactive threat-actor personas.

## Achievements

- Acquired Foretrace in March 2024.
- Named a Deloitte 2025 Technology Fast 50 winner in its November 2025 funding release.
- Reported customers and partners in over 50 countries in November 2025.
- Reported over 25,000 automatic identity validations across hundreds of IEM deployments by June 2026.
- Launched the free Darkroom training lab in August 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced Ignite, a five-tier global partner program for MSSPs and resellers.
- **2026-08** — Launched Darkroom, a free interactive training lab through Flare Academy.
- **2026-06** — Announced expanded Flare CTI capabilities and Okta integration for IEM.
- **2025-11** — Announced USD 15 million Series B extension and USD 15 million BMO debt financing.

## Links

- Website: https://flare.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flare-io/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/FlareSystems
- GitHub: https://github.com/Flared
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flarecybersecurity

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Last updated: 2026-10-06