Odix Took EIC Accelerator Money to Clean Files, Then Made FileWall

Most security products try to spot malware in a file. Odix, a company from Rosh HaAyin in central Israel, takes the opposite approach: it assumes every incoming file may be hostile, strips out anything that could run as code, and hands the user a rebuilt copy. The technique is called content disarm and reconstruction, or CDR. In 2019 the European Union paid €1,948,712.50 towards a two-year project, ODIX 2.0, to turn the company's enterprise engine into a cheap cloud service for small and medium-sized businesses, according to CORDIS.

The project produced what it promised. FileWall, an add-on that cleans attachments in Microsoft 365, went on general release in September 2020 at $1 per user per month, reported Calcalist and Help Net Security, both noting that it was built with Horizon 2020 sponsorship. Six years later the product is still sold and still updated. What is missing is any sign of how far it got: the last funding round on record closed in March 2020, and no revenue, customer count or headcount has been published since.

Where Odix Stands in 2026

The company is a live, registered business. The Israeli Companies Registrar lists Operations & Data Integrity (O.D.I) Ltd, company number 514354604, as active, with no violator flag and an annual report filed for 2026, according to the registrar's open company database; the English name is spelled "INTEGRITI" in that record. Israeli private companies do not file their accounts publicly, so the register shows nothing on revenue, losses or staff.

The company's own publishing continues, if slowly. Its August 2025 product note announced that FileWall now feeds alerts into Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle and Splunk; a September 2025 post said a malicious SVG attachment sent to its own chief executive and chief technology officer passed Microsoft Defender and was caught by FileWall; and in August 2026 it put up a new executive guide. Its team page still names Oren Eytan as chief executive and Omri Eytan as chief technology officer.

The founding date varies by source. The register gives incorporation on 26 November 2009; Calcalist's English edition and Wikipedia say 2009, while the Hebrew Calcalist report of the same funding round says 2010. Both Calcalist pieces and Wikipedia agree that the business began as a services firm and split in 2018 into ODI, for defence services, and odix, for products.

The Technology: Rebuild the File, Do Not Judge It

Antivirus software and sandboxes look for known signatures or suspicious behaviour, so a new, unseen piece of malware can slip through. CDR skips the verdict. The engine takes a document, spreadsheet, PDF or image apart, removes macros, scripts and other active elements that are not needed for the file to be read, and reassembles a clean copy. Odix calls its version TrueCDR and says on its about page that it handles files "in the binary level"; its April 2024 SecureNet announcement cites 12 registered patents. These patents were not checked one by one for this article.

Until FileWall, Odix sold CDR only to enterprises, Calcalist reported at the launch. Its bet with the EU money was distribution: make the same idea installable in a few clicks inside Microsoft 365, where small firms already keep their mail, at a price a ten-person company would pay. The CORDIS objective put the target market plainly: SMEs, "accounting for over 95% of firms", that cannot afford the tools large companies use.

What the EU Grant Promised, and What CORDIS Shows

ODIX 2.0 was selected at the 9 January 2019 cut-off of the EIC SME Instrument Phase 2, the Horizon 2020 forerunner of today's EIC Accelerator. The company appears under Israel as "Operations & Data Integrity ltd. (ODI ltd.)" in the European Commission's list of selected companies, with no partner company named; CORDIS lists ODI as the only participant. The grant agreement was signed on 25 July 2019, with the project running from 16 June 2019 to 15 June 2021. Total cost was €2,783,875, of which the EU paid €1,948,712.50 and the company €835,162.50. Odix and the press rounded the grant to "€2 million".

The project had three stated goals: take the product from technology readiness level 6 to 9, meaning from a tested prototype to a system in commercial use; prepare international market exploitation; and build an operating strategy around the SME market, with new customers in "Europe, US and Asia". The company's final periodic report, covering June 2020 to June 2021, says it chose two services: FileWall for Microsoft 365 mail and a managed kiosk that cleans files from USB sticks and discs before they enter a network. It reports that FileWall went from beta, tested by "hundreds of users", to sale on Microsoft AppSource and Azure, that "over 50,000 users (seats)" were registered for FileWall by the end of June 2021, and that the kiosk was deployed at 25 customers. No report for the first period is published, and the results page lists only two deliverables, a presentation and a website update.

1. Product to TRL 9, commercial SaaSDeliveredFileWall launched September 2020, per Calcalist and Help Net Security.
2. Removable-media kiosk serviceDelivered25 customer deployments, per the company's CORDIS report only.
3. International market rolloutPartlyMicrosoft marketplaces, EMEA and Benelux distributors and a US GSA listing, all announced by the company.
4. Growth on the SME marketUnverified50,000 registered seats is not paying users; no revenue figure is public.

The 50,000 figure deserves care. It counts registrations through Microsoft for a product with a 30-day free trial, as Calcalist described it, not paid subscriptions. The report gives no number of paying customers, and no later figure for FileWall users has been published. The company's homepage today claims "over 1,000,000,000 files odixed", a number with no stated method or period.

What Came After the Grant

The last funding round on record came during the project. In March 2020 Odix raised $2.1 million from private investors led by entrepreneur Efraim Landa, bringing the total raised to $6 million, Calcalist reported in English and Hebrew. The Hebrew report put the staff at about 20 and named customers including Harel and Migdal insurance, Israel's Ministry of Health, the European Investment Bank and the German armed forces. No later round, investor or valuation has been reported in the sources searched for this article, and the company is not shown as an EIC Fund investee; the 2019 award was a grant without equity.

Microsoft became the main channel. On 30 September 2020 Odix joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, after integrating FileWall with Azure Sentinel, according to Help Net Security and the company's 2020 review. In December 2022 it extended FileWall from mail to SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams, the company announced.

The deals since then are all known from Odix's own announcements, with sizes rarely given:

1. June 2023: a merger with AKITA, a network security firm described as "an EdgeDefence company", whose team was folded into Odix. No terms were disclosed.
2. August 2023: a distribution agreement with Nanjgel Solutions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
3. December 2023: a Benelux distribution deal with SLR Group of Utrecht.
4. April 2024: SecureNet, part of Israel's Aman Group, agreed to represent Odix's on-premises products exclusively, in a deal the announcement says is "estimated to be worth millions of shekels".
5. September 2024: a listing on the US GSA Schedule for federal buyers.
6. June 2025: Odix says it was named in Gartner's 2025 Market Guide for Content Disarm and Reconstruction; the report itself is not public and could not be checked.

Why It Matters to Europe

File-borne attacks on small firms are squarely within EU policy. The EU Cybersecurity Strategy and the NIS2 Directive push security duties down supply chains, which reach many smaller suppliers that have no security team. A low-cost add-on that cleans attachments before staff open them fits that gap. The strategic-autonomy angle is weaker: Odix is an Israeli company, and its main product is an add-on built for and sold through a US cloud platform.

The Verdict

Odix and the EIC were not asked for comment for this article. It is based on public records and published statements, linked throughout.