Censys Banks $75M for Attack Surface Management Technology

Michigan startup raises $75 million in new funding as venture capital investors bet big on attack surface management technologies.
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Cyware Snags $30M for Threat Intel Infrastructure Tech

New York startup $30 million in new financing to fuel plans to take advantage of the demand for AI-powered threat-intel security tools.
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Pure Storage acquires data service platform Portworx for $370M

Pure Storage, the public enterprise data storage company, today announced that it has acquired Portworx, a well-funded startup that provides a cloud-native storage and data-management platform based on Kubernetes, for $370 million in cash. This marks Pure Storage’s largest acquisition to date and shows how important this market for multi-cloud data services has become. Current […] Continue reading Pure Storage acquires data service platform Portworx for $370M

Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. Thrive Capital led the round, with additional funding by existing investors Benchmark, Coatue, Caffeinated Capital and CRV, as well as new investor D1 Capital. With this, […] Continue reading Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform

Contentful, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based startup that provides content management infrastructure for companies like Spotify, Nike, Lyft and others, today announced that it has raised a $33.5 million Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from OMERS Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Hercules. In […] Continue reading Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform

CyberGRX raises $30 million for collaborative risk auditing service

CyberGRX, a firm that helps companies assess the risk stemming from their third-party vendors, announced that it raised $30 million in a Series C funding round on Wednesday. The Denver-based company runs an “exchange” whereby its customers — larger enterprises and the smaller firms they do business with — share data meant to help in assessing and managing cyber risk. A number of recent data breaches occurred because of security shortfalls in products like web applications or point-of-sale systems, only to spread to corporate partners’ networks. The service is akin to a credit rating agency that assesses the risk of lending money to a particular entity. The company says it “unites third parties and their customers in the fight against cyber threats,” and that their ability to mitigate supply chain risks improves as more entities join CyberGRX’s exchange. “Rather than reacting to breaches after they occur, companies need to take […]

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Arctic Wolf Networks raises $45 million for cloud SOC platform

Arctic Wolf Networks, a company that sells a “SOC-as-a-service” platform, announced on Thursday that it raised $45 million Series C funding. The company provides a cloud-based security operations center (SOC), which gives customers access to Arctic Wolf’s AI-dirven threat detection platform as well as its “Concierge Security Engineers.” The offering is meant to give customers threat detection capabilities without having to built their own on-premise SOC. Arctic Wolf argues that this approach is more economical given the shortage of cybersecurity skills and “cost-prohibitive nature” for building a SOC from scratch. CEO and co-founder Brian NeSmith said in a press release that the new funding will go toward further developing Arctic Wolf’s vulnerability assessment and endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. “Our growing team of security engineers is redefining the economics of security to protect companies of all sizes,” NeSmith said in a press release. “In addition to supporting continued company […]

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WhiteSource raises $35 million for open source flaw detection platform

WhiteSource, a company that provides cybersecurity services to users of open source software, announced Wednesday that it raised $35 million in Series C funding. The company’s platform draws from a database of open source repositories and alerts customers if they are using components that have unpatched bugs. “We are now at a stage where the question is not whether or not to use open source components, but how to put in place the solutions and policies to manage them well,” said WhiteSource CEO and co-founder Rami Sass, in a press release. Sass pointed to Equifax’s massive data breach last year as evidence for the need for automated open source bug monitoring services like WhiteSource’s. Equifax’s breach of about 148 million people’s personal data was reportedly caused by an unpatched version of Apache Struts, an open source web application framework. “[A]s the open source community grows, and the number of reported vulnerabilities […]

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