Norwegian access-management startup Bsure has raised $2.1 million in new funding to accelerate product development and expand its team. The round was led by Scale Capital, alongside continued participation from the company’s existing U.S. investors.
Bsure was founded by Henrik Skalmerud and Øystein Riiser, two Norwegian entrepreneurs with deep experience in building secure, scalable enterprise software. Skalmerud brings a strong background in identity management and automation, while Riiser has spent much of his career developing cloud-based platforms designed to simplify complex IT environments. Together, they launched Bsure to address the growing challenge organizations face in tracking user access, eliminating inactive accounts, and improving security posture across increasingly fragmented systems.
Bsure addresses a widespread issue facing modern organizations: as users, devices, and applications multiply, companies increasingly lose visibility into who has access to what. This often results in inactive accounts lingering within corporate systems, forgotten software licenses, and quiet security risks that accumulate over time.
The company’s access-management platform provides real-time insights into user accounts and associated costs. According to Henrik Skalmerud, “We often see that up to 40 percent of user accounts associated with Microsoft systems are inactive.”
Bsure has surpassed 200 customers across nine countries, with adoption growing across both the private and public sectors. The company says this momentum reinforces the scale of the access-management problem and highlights the value its platform delivers in strengthening security and reducing unnecessary spending.
With the newly secured $2.1 million investment, Bsure plans to grow its team and further enhance its platform capabilities. The company says it is committed to helping more organizations identify and eliminate “digital ghosts” (inactive accounts that quietly increase risk and cost).
