Cybersecurity

Pillar Security: $9 Million (Seed) Closed To Address Evolving Threat Landscape

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:53 PM

Pillar Security, an AI-based security startup that helps enterprises build and run secure AI software, announced it has raised $9 million in seed funding. Shield Capital led the round, which was joined by Golden Ventures, Ground Up Ventures, and other strategic angel investors. The funds will support expanding Pillar’s R&D and go-to-market efforts.

Terra Security: $8 Million (Seed) Secured For Agentic AI Pen Testing Solution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Terra Security, an Agentic AI-native penetration testing service-as-software platform, announced it has raised $7.5 million in a seed round led by SYN Ventures and FXP Ventures with participation from Underscore VC and notable angel investors, including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelback and Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, founders of Talon Security.

Kenzo: $4.5 Million Raised For Transforming Security Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Kenzo Security announced it emerged from stealth after 18 months with $4.5 million in funding from The General Partnership and Michael Coates (former CISO of Mozilla and Twitter). And its Agentic AI Security Operations Platform is purpose-built to help CISOs and security teams do more with less while reducing risk.

Cy4Data Labs: $10 Million Funding Raised For Data Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 18, 2025

Cy4Data Labs, a leader in next-generation data protection, announced the closing of its funding round, led by Pelion Venture Partners. This strategic deal will advance Cy4Data Labs' growth in sales and marketing, enabling more organizations to access its breakthrough solution. And with Cy4Data Labs, data remains encrypted and protected—not only at rest and in motion, but for the first time while in use.

BreachBits: Investment Raised From Lloyd’s For Enhancing Cyber Insurance Performance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 18, 2025

BreachBits announced it has received investment from Lloyd’s through its central fund. This is Lloyd’s third strategic innovation investment from among over 150 alumni of the Lloyd’s Lab. This funding follows BreachBits' successful co-development project in Lloyd's Lab cohort 13, which ran from September to December 2024.

GitGuardian: Interview With CEO Eric Fourrier About The Cybersecurity Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 15, 2025

Menlo Security: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Amir Ben-Efraim About The Secure Enterprise Browser Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 14, 2025

Menlo Security protects organizations from cyber threats that attack web browsers and beyond. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Menlo Security co-founder and CEO Amir Ben-Efraim to learn more about the company.

Akeyless: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Oded Hareven About The Identity Security Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 14, 2025

Akeyless is redefining identity security for the modern enterprise, delivering the world's first unified Secrets & Machine Identity platform designed to prevent the #1 cause of breaches - compromised identities and secrets. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Akeyless co-founder and CEO Oded Hareven to learn more about the company.

incident.io: $62 Million (Series B) Raised To Help Engineering Teams Fix Issues Faster

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

incident.io, an end-to-end incident management platform used by engineering teams at companies like Netflix, Linear, Ramp, and Etsy, announced it has raised $62 million in Series B funding. This funding round was led by Insight Partners and with continued support from Index Ventures and Point Nine Capital. And this round brings the total funding to over $96 million.

Spektion: $5 Million (Seed) Raised For Software Vulnerability Management Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 9, 2025

Software vulnerability management leader Spektion announced the general availability of its purpose-built solution, Spektion, which enables vulnerability management teams to address software risks based on their runtime behavior proactively. The company also revealed that it is backed by $5 million in seed funding led by LiveOak Ventures. The funding round also included participation from Tau Ventures and Dauntless Ventures.

Aurascape: $50 Million Raised For AI-Native Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 9, 2025

Aurascape, a provider of AI-native security, announced its launch after one year of stealth operations with $50 million in funding. The lead investors include Mayfield Fund and Menlo Ventures, along with a strategic set of investors such as Celesta Capital and security industry leaders, including former Palo Alto Networks CEO Mark McLaughlin, former Symantec CEO Greg Clark, the Chairman of Walden International Lip-Bu Tan, and former Zscaler Chief Strategy Officer Manoj Apte.

Portnox: $37.5 Million (Series B) Closed To Transform Zero Trust Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 8, 2025

Portnox, a provider of cloud-native, zero-trust access control solutions, today announced it has closed a $37.5 million Series B funding round, led by Updata Partners. This brings the total investment in the company to $59.5 million.

Cyberhaven: $100 Million (Series D) Raised At $1 Billion Valuation For AI-Based Data Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Cyberhaven, a leader in AI-based data security, announced $100 million in Series D funding, led by StepStone Group and new investors Schroders and Industry Ventures, to advance its growth and cement its position as the leader in AI-based data protection.

Runtime Ventures: $32 Million Debut Fund Launches For Seed Stage Cybersecurity Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 6, 2025

Runtime Ventures, a VC fund focused exclusively on seed-stage cybersecurity investments, announced the launch of its debut fund, with a capital commitment of $32 million. Runtime Ventures is dedicated to supporting and nurturing innovative pre-seed and seed-stage cybersecurity startups.

GetReal Security: $17.5 Million (Series A) Closed For Mitigation Of Malicious GenAI Threats

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 1, 2025

GetReal Security, a cybersecurity leader specializing in the detection and mitigation of malicious generative AI threats including deepfakes and impersonation attacks, announced it closed $17.5 million in Series A funding led by global early-stage cybersecurity and AI investment firm Forgepoint Capital with participation from Ballistic Ventures, Evolution Equity, and K2 Access Fund as well as strategic investors In-Q-Tel (IQT), Cisco Investments and Capital One Ventures.

Island: $250 Million (Series E) Raised At Nearly $5 Billion Valuation For Enterprise Browser

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 30, 2025

Enterprise browser company Island announced a $250 million Series E funding round. This brings Island’s valuation to $4.8 billion in under five years since its 2020 founding. Coatue Management led the new funding, with several existing investors participating. And Island has secured about $730 million in outside investment to date.

Charm Security: $8 Million (Seed) Closed For AI-Based Customer Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 26, 2025

Charm Security - an AI-based customer security platform - announced its launch from stealth. And the company secured $8 million in seed funding led by Team8.

VulnCheck: $12 Million (Series A) Closed For Exploit Intelligence Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

VulnCheck, the exploit intelligence company, announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Sorenson Capital and In-Q-Tel (IQT). The latest funding brings the total funding raised to nearly $20 million.

Dashlane: Interview With Co-Founder & VP Of Architecture Guillaume Maron About The Credential Management Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Dashlane is a web and mobile app that simplifies password management for people and businesses. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Dashlane co-founder and VP of Engineering Guillaume Maron to learn more about the company.

Orion Security: $6 Million (Seed) Raised For AI-Based Data Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Orion Security, an AI-based data protection platform, announced a $6 million seed funding round led by Pico Partners and FXP with participation from Underscore VC and cybersecurity leaders like the founders of Perimeter 81 and the CISO of Elastic. Launched by CEO Nitay Milner, former product leader at Cisco-acquired Epsagon, and CTO Yonatan Kreiner, former application security lead at WalkMqe, Orion is already used by leading technology companies.

HITRUST: Cybersecurity Assurance Company Raises Growth Investment From Brighton Park

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Brighton Park Capital announced a growth investment in HITRUST, a leader in information security assurance for risk management and compliance.

Aryon Security: $9 Million (Seed) Secured For Transforming Cloud Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Aryon Security announced it exited stealth with its Cloud Security Enforcement Platform, which is creating a transformative approach to enterprise cloud security that prevents cloud risks before they are deployed in production systems, which is an industry first. Created by alumni of the elite Matzov unit in the Israel Defense Forces, Aryon has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Viola Ventures and Blumberg Capital.

Pentera: $60 Million (Series D) Secured For Leading Security Validation Market Consolidation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Pentera, a leader in automated security validation, today announced a $60 million Series D funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Farallon Capital Management, bringing the company's total funding to $250 million.

Blackwall: €45 Million (Series B) Raised For AI-Enabled Security And Web Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Blackwall (formerly Botguard), a global AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company founded in 2019 by Nikita Rozenberg (CEO) and Denis Prochko (CTO), announced that it has raised a €45 million Series B round led by Dawn Capital with participation from existing investors MMC.

Sola Security: $30 Million (Seed) Raised For Democratizing Cybersecurity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Sola Security, a self-serve platform built to democratize cybersecurity, announced its launch from stealth with a $30 million seed round led by S Capital and veteran venture capitalist Mike Moritz. And investors also include S32, Glilot Capital Partners, and several angel investors.

University Of South Florida: $40 Million Gift Received To Establish Bellini College Of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity And Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

To position Tampa as a global leader in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, the University of South Florida (USF) announced a record-setting $40 million gift to establish the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing. This investment—which is the largest in USF’s nearly 70-year history—marks the first named college in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to the convergence of AI and cybersecurity.

Hawcx: $3 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised To Transform Passwordless Authentication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Hawcx, an innovator in passwordless authentication, announced it has secured $3 million in pre-seed funding. The funding round was led by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Engineering Capital, with participation from seed-stage fund Boldcap. This funding round will advance Hawcx’s efforts to accelerate product development, grow its team, and scale sales and marketing initiatives.

Cybereason: $120 Million Raised For Advancing EDR Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Cybereason, a leading global cybersecurity company, announced a $120 million investment led by SoftBank Corp., SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Liberty Strategic Capital to advance the company's global growth fueled by its endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and its consulting services, enhanced by a strategic partnership with Trustwave. Manish Narula will serve as the company's new CEO.

RAD Security: $14 Million (Series A) Raised For AI-Based Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 7, 2025

RAD Security, a leader in securing cloud-focused infrastructure, announced a $14 million Series A funding round, led by Cheyenne Ventures with participation from new investors Forgepoint Capital, Lytical Ventures, and Akamai and existing investors .406 Ventures, Vertex Ventures, and Gula Tech Adventures.

SpecterOps: $75 Million (Series B) Raised For Advancing Identity Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

SpecterOps, a provider of adversary-focused cybersecurity solutions with targeted insights of advanced threat actor tradecraft, announced it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from additional investors including Ansa Capital, M12, Ballistic Ventures, Decibel and Cisco Investments. This funding round will support SpecterOps’ scaling of BloodHound Enterprise (BHE), the industry’s first platform for comprehensively removing Identity-based Attack Paths.