Cybersecurity

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

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:07 AM

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.

Cato Networks: $250 Million In ARR Surpassed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

SASE leader Cato Networks announced that its 2024 annual recurring revenue (ARR) surpassed $250 million, an increase of 46% compared to 2023. Now, over 3,000 businesses have adopted the Cato SASE Cloud Platform to transform the way their organizations connect and secure their global operations.

Nokod Security: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Yair Finzi About The Application Security Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 27, 2025

Nokod Security delivers a security platform for no-code, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and AI application development platforms. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Nokod Security co-founder and CEO Yair Finzi to learn more about the company.

NinjaOne: $500 Million (Series C Extension) Raised At $5 Billion Valuation To Transform Automated Endpoint Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 24, 2025

NinjaOne, an automated endpoint management platform, today announced $500 million in Series C extensions at a $5 billion valuation. This funding came in separate tranches that were led by ICONIQ Growth and CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent investment fund, with participation from other prominent private investors.

Edera: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Emily Long About Container Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 24, 2025

Edera is a company that is changing the way containers are run and secured, making isolation a reality and fundamentally transforming computing in the process. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Edera CEO and co-founder Emily Long to learn more about the company.

CyberArk Buying Zilla Security In $165 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 22, 2025

CyberArk, a leader in identity security, announced it acquired Zilla Security, a leader in modern Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions. And Zilla’s AI-based IGA capabilities will expand CyberArk’s industry-leading Identity Security Platform with scalable automation that enables accelerated identity compliance and provisioning across digital environments while maximizing security and operational efficiency.

Dream: $100 Million (Series B) Raised At $1.1 Billion Valuation For Cyber Resilience

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 22, 2025

Dream, an AI-based company providing cyber resilience for nations and critical infrastructure, announced a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures at a $1.1 billion valuation. And additional investors include Group 11, Tru Arrow, Tau Capital and Aleph. Dream will further enhance its product capabilities and global market reach with this funding round.

SGNL: $30 Million (Series A) Raised For Privileged Identity Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 19, 2025

SGNL, a rapidly growing identity-first security startup, announced it secured $30 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate its mission of redefining how businesses protect their most critical assets. This funding round was led by Brightmind Partners, a security-focused firm co-founded by Stephen Ward, former Partner at Insight Partners, Home Depot CISO, and former Secret Service cybersecurity leader. And additional participation from Costanoa Ventures, Microsoft’s M12, and Cisco Investments validates growing confidence in SGNL’s approach.

QuSecure: $28 Million (Series A) Raised For Post-Quantum Cryptography Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 19, 2025

QuSecure, a leader in post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and next-generation cryptographic agility, announced the closing of additional funding, bringing the Series A round to $28 million. The funding will be used to advance QuSecure's delivery of crypto-agile and quantum-resistant cybersecurity enterprise software solutions. Two Bear Capital led the funding round, with participation from Accenture Ventures.

Invary: $3.5 Million Raised For Runtime Integrity Solutions Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 19, 2025

Invary, a Runtime Integrity solutions platform, announced it raised a $3.5 million Seed funding round from SineWave Ventures, Flyover Capital, Hyperlink Ventures, and KCRise Fund. This funding enables Invary to advance its goal of verifying the Runtime Integrity of entire systems, ensuring comprehensive confidentiality and security.

Pantomath: Interview With Founder & CEO Somesh Saxena About The Data Pipeline Observability Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2025

Pantomath is a data pipeline observability and traceability platform for automating data operations. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pantomath CEO and founder Somesh Saxena to learn more about the company.

Salt Security: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Roey Eliyahu About The End-To-End API Security Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2025

Salt Security is a company that protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Salt Security co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu to learn more about the company.

Astra Security: Funding Raised To Simplify Cybersecurity With Pentesting

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Astra Security, a security platform with continuous vulnerability scanning and pentests, announced the closing of a growth capital round—led by Emergent Ventures, with participation from the Neon Fund, Better Capital, Blume Ventures, and PointOne Capital.

H.I.G. Capital Buying Converge Technology Solutions For About C$1.3 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 12, 2025

Converge Technology Solutions announced it has entered into an arrangement agreement with an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, under which H.I.G. has agreed to acquire all of the company's issued and outstanding common shares.

Seraphic: $29 Million (Series A) Raised For Enterprise Browser Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2025

Seraphic Security, a leader in enterprise browser security, announced that it has secured a $29 million Series A funding round led by GreatPoint Ventures (GPV), with participation from the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and existing investors Planven, Cota Capital, Storm Ventures, Eastlink and Secure Octane.

Freeze: $2.6 Million (Seed) Raised For Enhancing Cybersecurity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2025

Freeze - a leading provider of proactive offensive security and attack surface protection solutions designed to prevent hackers from gaining the necessary information and resources to attack organizations and their teams - announced its $2.6 million seed funding round closing. This funding was led by angel investors, cybersecurity experts, and technology experts who recognize the growing need for innovative approaches to proactive offensive security, attack surface protection, and cybersecurity.

Semperis: Cyber Resilience Company Surpasses $100 Million In ARR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2025

According to venture capital firm Greylock Partners, cyber resilience company Semperis announced it surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), a milestone that fewer than one in every 1,000 venture-backed enterprise software companies achieve. Driving Semperis' rapid customer growth and ascension to centaur status is the company's comprehensive solution for enterprises combatting the ever-growing threat of identity-based attacks in Active Directory and Entra ID environments.