Become a 2026 founding partner
Annual commitments. Every tier is built on something we can actually deliver: real hardware, real labs, real visibility in front of embedded security people.
The first slot is still open
Espilon has no financial partner today, and we are not going to fill this page with logos we do not have. The upside is straightforward: whoever comes in first takes the 2026 founding partner status, the first CTF box carrying a brand name, and a partners page where that name stands on its own instead of sitting in a wall of thirty.
What a partner gets
Annual commitments, several formats. Here is what we deliver, grouped by nature. Which formats include what, and at what price, is in the prospectus below.
- Your logo on espilon.net and on the partners page
- Mentions on LinkedIn and in the newsletter
- Headline presence at the on-site CTF
- An official certificate and public thanks
- Your job offers relayed to the community
- A presentation session in front of our members
- A dedicated recruitment event
- A CTF box carrying your name, played in our CTFs
- Naming rights on the box for the length of the commitment
- Real hardware, built and maintained by us
- A full lab funded and open to everyone
- Your name attached to what it teaches
- Free access for the people who train on it
- Security audit of your embedded products
- Custom Espilon modules and tools for your specific needs
- Direct access to the research team
- Deliverable and licence defined by contract
- Your retired hardware and IT reused for research and labs
- Data-wipe certificate
- Hardware Partner status
- Public thanks
Download the full prospectus
Six pages: what we do, who we reach, the available formats, what each one includes and the pricing. Same document in both languages, pick yours.
Rather talk it through first? We will take 20 minutes to build a partnership that fits your goals. Email us →
What actually happens once you sign
No waiting for an annual report to see something move.
Kick-off: scoping and a dedicated contact.
Your logo live and first mentions.
CTF box in your name launched, job posts relayed.
First visibility report.
Where the money goes
Non-profit association: every euro goes into the projects.
The events we back
This section runs the other way round: here Espilon is the sponsor. Three events so far.
Two kinds of relationship, never mixed up: an event backed by Espilon, or an event Espilon simply took part in. Each card says which one it is.
Egypt's national cybersecurity competition for high-school students aged 13 to 18. Online, free, open to beginners, solo or in teams of up to four. Six categories: Web, Crypto, Forensics, Reverse, OSINT and Misc.
Figures announced by the organisers.
Espilon designs and provides the hardware challenges. The six categories announced by the organisers do not include hardware, so this is a track the event would not have otherwise.
nilectf.com → Discord NileCTF
An overnight on-site CTF in Paris, jeopardy format, in teams of one to four. It ran from 21:00 to 06:00 UTC on the night of 3 to 4 July 2026, at 242 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
Figures from the CTFtime event page.
Espilon backed the event, was there on site, and supplied a series of three RF lockpicking challenges, where ESP32 boards played the part of the BLE padlocks.
Discord MindBreak
An on-site jeopardy CTF in Paris, in teams of four, run over a single day on 16 May 2026 at the Pole Leonard de Vinci in La Defense.
Figures from the CTFtime event page.
Espilon backed the event and built its hardware track: physical ESP32 boards planted in the room and on our stand, attacked over BLE and Wi-Fi, from a flash dump to rebuilding an MQTT node's identity.
dvc.tf Discord DaVinciCTFFour other ways to collaborate
No budget involved. Pick the one that fits, or mix them.
Technical collaboration
Joint vulnerability research on embedded targets. Security analysis of IoT and OT products, code review, shared write-ups.
Academic partnership
End-of-study project and thesis topics in embedded security: firmware analysis, RFID, BLE, protocol reversing. Talks at engineering schools.
Internship
3 to 6 month research internship in embedded and IoT security. Real targets, no toy projects. You get your name on what you find.
CTF & events
Challenge co-creation, co-organized IoT and OT CTF events, guest tracks.
Would you like to support Espilon?
No forms. Send an email with what you have in mind and we will take 20 minutes to build a partnership that fits your goals. Company, school or individual, it does not matter.
Non-profit association, loi 1901 · Declared April 2026 · France