# Jose Seara

> Jose Seara is the founder and CEO of DeNexus, a Boston-based company that quantifies cyber risk for operational technology and industrial control systems. A naval and marine engineer by training, he spent nearly two decades building critical infrastructure and renewable energy companies across Europe and North America before pivoting to cybersecurity. He started DeNexus after discovering, as an energy operator, that he could not measure his own company's cyber risk or insure against it. His DeRISK platform turns technical threat data into financial metrics that boards and insurers can act on.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at DeNexus
- **Organizations:** DeNexus, NaturEner USA (now BHE Montana), NaturEner Canada, DeWind Co, PROYDECO Ingenieria y Servicios SL, Proyectos de Cogeneracion SL, Deutz Spain, S.A.
- **From:** Spain
- **Nationality:** Spanish
- **Education:** M.S., Naval & Marine Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Executive Program, Exponential Technologies, Singularity University
- **Known for:** Founded DeNexus, described as the first end-to-end cyber risk management solution dedicated to the industrial sector, Built the DeRISK platform combining AI/ML, external threat intelligence and attack simulation to forecast cyber risk in financial terms, Raised $17.5M Series A funding (total funding of roughly $32.85M)

## Career timeline

- **1999-2003** — Partner and director at Proyectos de Cogeneracion SL
- **1999-2002** — Founding partner and board member at DeWind Co
- **2003-2006** — Founding partner and principal at PROYDECO Ingenieria y Servicios SL
- **2006** — Moved from Spain to San Francisco for an energy project
- **2006-2018** — President & CEO of NaturEner USA and NaturEner Canada, building a renewable energy company across the US and Canada
- **2018** — Founded DeNexus to quantify cyber risk for operational technology and industrial control systems
- **2022** — Closed seed equity round (December 2022)
- **2024** — Raised $17.5M Series A; DeNexus revenue and client base expand across power generation, manufacturing, data centers and airports

## Achievements

- Founded DeNexus, described as the first end-to-end cyber risk management solution dedicated to the industrial sector
- Built the DeRISK platform combining AI/ML, external threat intelligence and attack simulation to forecast cyber risk in financial terms
- Raised $17.5M Series A funding (total funding of roughly $32.85M)
- Established partnerships including Nozomi Networks for industrial cyber risk solutions
- Previously built and led a renewable energy company (NaturEner) with operations across the US and Canada over 12 years
- Assembled an international team of cybersecurity experts, mathematicians, statisticians, data scientists and AI/ML engineers across the US, Spain and Switzerland

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Raised $17.5M Series A round to scale DeNexus and its DeRISK platform
- **2024-11** — Featured by the Center for Data Innovation discussing cyber risk quantification and AI
- **2024-10** — CyberTech Top Voice interview on proactive threat detection and risk management during Cybersecurity Awareness Month

## Links

- Website: https://denexus.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmseara/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/DeNexusInc1

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Last updated: 2026-07-16