Wolverhampton cyber firm Goldilock scales up with expansion of premises

Nato-backed Goldilock, a network segmentation and isolation specialist, says the expansion of its West Midlands headquarters will support its rapid growth trajectory. 

The firm says its new manufacturing and testing facilities in the University of Wolverhampton Science Park will help deliver on increasing numbers of large orders coming in from its growing global customer base. Goldilock is a UK-based cyber security scaleup which has developed a unique network isolation and segmentation device that ringfences networks away from the internet to make them inaccessible to hackers, known as Firebreak. 

Goldilock expects to increase the team to 32 employees by the end of 2025 and forecasts that it will be able to create 44 new jobs in the area between now and the end of 2027, the majority of which will be engineers to help service customer orders for FireBreak.

“We are thrilled to expand our capability to meet the large-scale orders we have coming in and in doing so further strengthen our ties with the tech community in the West Midlands, said Stephen Kines, co-founder and COO of Goldilock.

“With sophisticated ransomware and AI-powered attacks on a continuous rise, paired with the increasing interconnectedness of systems, Goldilock's technology provides a critical, foundational layer of defence. The West Midlands offers us an invaluable hub for innovation, providing access to a diverse pool of talented tech professionals and a supportive business environment from which we can continue to grow the business and get our critical product to where it’s needed most, as quickly as possible."

Over the past year, FireBreak has won Goldilock a place on multiple accelerators including the prestigious NATO DIANA programme and the MoD's Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA). 

Now, as Goldilock scales up and moves from R&D and prototyping to large-scale manufacturing to meet the global demand for FireBreak, it has chosen to re-invest in the West Midlands by expanding its facilities and continuing to conduct all manufacturing in its new dedicated space in the University of Wolverhampton Science Park.

City of Wolverhampton Council Leader, Councillor Stephen Simkins, added: “Goldilock's expansion is a testament to the City of Wolverhampton’s growing appeal as a destination of choice for ambitious tech firms, with an extensive R&D network, deep pool of specialist talent and proximity to the region’s end-to-end manufacturing supply chain.

“We’re very proud that Goldilock chose to call the University of Wolverhampton Science Park home and look forward to supporting their continued growth, while encouraging many more tech firms to make the most of the valuable opportunity presented by our Green Innovation Corridor.”