Labrys raises €17.5 million for its humanitarian teams workforce management platform

British startup Labrys, which is developing a trust infrastructure for managing globally distributed teams, has secured €17.5 million in new funding. The investment will be used to grow its engineering and operations teams, integrate advanced AI-driven features, and expand deployment models.

The round was led by Plural, with participation from AlbionVC and Superangel. Existing investors—Project A, MDOne, Expeditions Fund, and Marque Ventures—also joined the round, bringing Labrys’ total funding to €22.3 million.

“Being unable to verify if a person can be trusted, if a task has been completed or work out how to pay them has been preventing successful humanitarian, aid and military missions for too long. Yet solving the issues has historically been considered too complex and too difficult, leaving organisations stuck using disparate and insecure platforms.

“We created Labrys to solve these tough workforce and team coordination problems in logistics, risk and humanitarian crisis response and we’ve built a talented team to tackle the hardest technical problems in this space. We’re delighted to be backed by investors who understand this mission and want to build the future of trusted infrastructure right alongside us.” said August Lersten, Co-founder and CEO of Labrys.

Founded in 2020, Labrys is the company behind Axiom—a secure workforce management platform designed to help organizations verify, support, and pay their globally distributed teams. By streamlining these processes, Axiom enables clients to save time, cut costs, and reduce risk, particularly when operating at scale or in regions with limited infrastructure.

Sten Tamkivi, partner at Plural, added: “A lot of defense and resilience innovation focuses on hardware assets. Yet, there’s been a gap around secure, reliable system for human coordination when it matters most – until now. August and Luke’s experience on the literal front lines means they know exactly the challenges experienced on the ground and are building Labrys to solve these challenges once and for all. This is exactly the kind of mission we want to support at Plural and I look forward to working with them to grow Labrys.”

Since closing its Seed round in 2023, Labrys has achieved seven-figure annual revenues, securing contracts with government agencies and clients in logistics and humanitarian disaster response—including operations in Ukraine. With the latest funding, the company plans to strengthen its identity infrastructure, enhance multi-party access controls, and expand its audit tooling.

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