Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence

A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most.

In the first week of February 2026, anarchists severed electrical cables near Bologna on the opening day of the Milan–Cortina Winter Olympics, stranding thousands of travellers across northern Italy.

That same month, the Vulkangruppe,  a far-left German extremist group with a fifteen-year record of infrastructure attacks, brought down the Lichterfelde power station in Berlin, cutting electricity to around 45,000 homes in temperatures well below freezing. One elderly resident died.

The previous September, a ransomware attack on aviation IT provider Collins Aerospace caused widespread disruption at Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin airports, forcing airlines to revert to manual check-in processes across the continent.

Three incidents, three different threat actors, three different attack vectors. What ...