Cisco and ABN Amro have signed up to a $17.5m round for the authentication technology technology that will fund its move to the US.

Sweden-based biometric authentication technology developer BehavioSec has attracted $17.5m in a series B round featuring subsidiaries of networking technology provider Cisco and banking group ABN Amro.

Venture capital fund Trident Capital Cybersecurity led the round, which included Octopus Ventures and Conor Venture Partners, as well as Cisco Investments and ABN Amro Digital Impact Fund.

BehavioSec has created authentication technology for mobile devices, traditional computers and web browsers that identifies a user by their behaviour on keyboards, analysing factors such as…