Metabase Q, an IT cybersecurity management company, announced $11 million extension Series A round. SYN Ventures (a VC firm focused on investing in innovative security companies) led both A rounds and John Watters, former president and COO of Mandiant, an independent board director of Metabase Q, participated in both.
Robert Rodriguez, a venture partner at SYN Ventures and chairman and founder of SINET, a community of senior-level cybersecurity professionals, is joining Metabase Q’s board. The company will utilize the new funding to meet record customer demand and scale go-to-market.
has added a new layer of proactive security, ZeroAPT Mitigator, to Batuta to reduce risk further. Batuta monitors and manages remote endpoints and cybersecurity technologies, giving IT and cybersecurity teams a shared view of cyber risk, operational and technology efficiencies, and actionable insights.
Then, teams can proactively reduce the likelihood and impact of an attack, and if one occurs, they can increase response and recovery time tenfold. Since launching last year, Batuta has over 50 enterprise customers and is deployed across 45 countries.
The increasing complexity of cybersecurity management, combined with redundant tools, has led to significant inefficiencies, elevated costs and security gaps across organizations. And companies struggle to maintain consistency and effectiveness in their cybersecurity posture, particularly when managing multiple locations, subsidiaries and acquired entities. However, companies can mitigate over 70% of their cybersecurity risk through proactive endpoint security and fundamental practices.
Metabase Q’s Batuta is a cloud-native and multi-tenant endpoint management platform that combines IT and cybersecurity functionalities to strengthen companies’ security posture proactively. This platform:
1.) Improves patching speed and cybersecurity and IT technology command execution tenfold which dramatically increases the speed of response to incidents and remediation actions
2.) Identifies unused software licenses, enabling companies to consolidate technologies and cut costs while enhancing protection
3.) Verifies that current cybersecurity tools are working effectively, reducing the risk of a breach due to an endpoint with a disconnected or outdated EDR agent
4.) Centralizes cybersecurity management across locations, including subsidiaries and acquired companies, ensuring consistency and reducing operational overhead
Batuta features a lightweight websocket agent that runs on user-level permissions without installation dependencies. And the websocket connects to a central console via SSL tunnel and is capable of executing commands and scripts orchestrated from there. Unlike an EDR, it does not make behavior or signature-based decisions.
KEY QUOTES:
“Visibility into endpoint devices is crucial for understanding and enhancing an organization’s overall security posture, regardless of the protective measures in place. Effective collaboration between IT and security teams is key to operational rigor, and tools that provide shared insights, like Metabase Q’s Batuta, can significantly elevate a company’s ability to proactively manage cybersecurity risks.”
-Chirag Mehta, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research
“Metabase Q’s Batuta is a game-changer. It’s amazing what you can do with a single product. Batuta offers more than just cybersecurity; it helps you have a complete management console to control endpoints and have certainty that the cybersecurity technology you are running to stay protected is properly deployed. Nowadays, it is one of the most used technologies in our organization for both monitoring and execution, and that is where I think it really has a significant advantage. If we start measuring the speed at which you can actually deploy things, there is no comparison; Batuta is in a league of its own. Consolidating and updating over 30 countries, which used to be lengthy and painful, now takes minutes.”
-Juan Manuel Marquez, Global CIO at ECOM, a global multibillion-dollar commodity services group specializing in coffee, cocoa and cotton headquartered in Switzerland
“We developed Batuta utilizing the learnings from thousands of organizations across all industries and levels of complexity: while every company has a different business, they all face the same core problem of centralized management and control of multiple operating systems and cybersecurity tools. Companies seek diversity for reliability and defense-in-depth but, more often than not, end up with visibility and consolidation challenges. We recognized that the opportunity for the biggest gain in cybersecurity risk-reduction does not come from better detection engines but from ensuring that the fundamentals are in place through proactive security.”
-Louise Ireland, co-founder, president and COO of Metabase Q
“Metabase Q’s Batuta has transformed our cybersecurity approach. Batuta centralizes the management of our IT infrastructure and cybersecurity technologies, providing us with unparalleled visibility and control and greatly improved our incident response efficiency. The incorporation of dynamic hardening based on the latest attacker techniques helps us answer the executive question of ‘Are we protected against this threat?’. Metabase Q enables us to focus on our core business while ensuring our digital assets are protected.”
-Sergio Eddy, Chief Risk Officer at Grupo Financiero Multiva, one the largest financial holding companies headquartered in Mexico
“There’s more spent in security than ever before, but many fundamentals are still missing. Often, security tools are not deployed properly or aren’t working as expected, and many companies lack complete coverage across their organization. Metabase Q addresses these core challenges with Batuta, providing unparalleled visibility and control and end-to-end cybersecurity certainty. Their approach has been transformative to date which you can see by their incredible enterprise customer traction and is exactly the forward-thinking approach we believe will redefine industry standards.”
-Jay Leek, managing partner at SYN Ventures who was the CISO at Blackstone
“Cybersecurity is borderless, and we want to make the world safer. We’re focusing on taking care of enterprises’ security so that they can focus on what really matters – growing their businesses.”
-Mauricio Benavides, co-founder and CEO of Metabase Q
