TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Security has a data problem. That’s according to Kfir Tishbi, who led the engineering team at Datorama, a marketing analytics company that was acquired by Salesforce in 2018. A more direct competitor is Dig Security, which builds tools to address outstanding observability issues in security.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek shook the automotive industry in 2015 by remotely hacking a Jeep Cherokee driven by Wired reporter , and willing participant, Andy Greenberg. Perhaps it’s not surprising then that automotive cyberattacks have grown in frequency — up more than 225% in 2021 , compared to 2018.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 million contract with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). From 2012 through 2018, the SEC paid Company A approximately $10.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. Prior to founding the startup in 2018, Simkin’s worked for the Department of Justice as part of its national security division. Corsha, a Washington, D.C.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

” As a bootstrapped startup, Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which was founded in 2018, has already amassed 1 million users for the extension, which is one reason why it was able to raise so much so early on. “We want to give advice and help to our users. We believe in positive friction.” So much was getting through.”

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 6, 2024

Abnormal Security closed a $250 million Series D that now values the San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup at $5.1 Founded in 2018, Abnormal looks to stop attacks and find compromised accounts across email and connected applications through leveraging machine learning and AI to understand human behavior.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik is also a renowned hacker and security researcher and, as of recently, a founder. Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that they have contended with a cloud-related security breach in the last 18 months. Shaked worked for some time at Magic Leap.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Vista bought LogicMonitor in May 2018 for about $415 million. Cyera , $300M, cybersecurity: After raising a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 billion valuation in April, data security startup Cyera last month closed another $300 million windfall at more than twice its previous valuation. and AI product development.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 16, 2024

Venture funding overall was still sluggish , but cybersecurity startups saw some love from investors in the first quarter of 2024. To be sure, this is not the salad days of 2021 — cybersecurity funding was still down year to year — but the sector saw its best funding quarter in three quarters. billion valuation.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Global venture investment in 2024 was above the pre-pandemic year of 2019, but below 2018 and 2020 amounts at $346 billion and $350 billion, respectively. Other leading sectors included autonomous driving, healthcare, robotics, professional services, security and military, Crunchbase data shows.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

406 Ventures, and Matt Caulfield, founder and CEO of Oort, with a conversation around cybersecurity companies in Boston. Caulfield started Oort in 2018, and to date, has raised $18.05 To them, the area’s rich history in deep tech explains why high-tech startups, from biotech to cybersecurity companies, find success in the region.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. AI companies and machine learning models can help detect data patterns and protect data sets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Few organizations use a single cloud infrastructure vendor, and figuring out how to configure security across multiple clouds can be a challenge for companies. Cisco announced over the weekend that it intends to acquire Valtix , a startup that helps companies secure their environments across multiple clouds. Valtix launched in 2020.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Vista bought LogicMonitor in May 2018 for about $415 million. Cyera , $300M, cybersecurity: After raising a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 billion valuation in April, data security startup Cyera closed another $300 million windfall at more than twice its previous valuation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The news of Shih’s departure was broken by investment analyst Patrick Walravens of JMP Securities. SalesforceIQ, a software development company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Salesforce in 2018, while his next venture, low-code platform vendor Airkit, was swallowed up by Salesforce in October 2023.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. GitGuardian estimates that app security engineers on average have to handle over 3,400 secrets occurrences.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

NeuraLegion , a startup that focuses on dynamic application security testing and identifying business logic issues, today announced that it has changed its name to Bright Security. “The people who love it really love it,” Gadi Bashvitz , who became Bright Security’s CEO this January, explained.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Proving that there’s still plenty of venture money in cybersecurity, cloud identity security platform Britive today announced that it raised $20.5 But there are drawbacks, too — one being security (potentially). Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M million in a Series B funding round.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 3, 2025

and international quantum technology infrastructure has been built out in the last seven years since the initial Quantum Initiative Act in 2018 - with commitments to cryptography, quantum agility, networking, and computing that will reshape national security and federal operations. Domestic U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It works by giving the security team a view of how the company’s security profile could look to an attacker trying to gain access. Today’s acquisition is Palo Alto’s third in 2020 and the 10th since 2018. Its most recent raise was a $70 million Series C last year, which was led by TPG.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

And, predominantly for CIOs and CISOs, you always have to consider the evolving cybersecurity landscape and the threats that are associated with that. Security and availability. It’s been around for a long time, let’s call it 2018, when OpenAI developed GPT. It’s a bit of a balancing act. I find that really interesting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

All said, Assured Allies joins with insurtech companies around the world that did manage to secure some decent funding recently, including Equisoft , Naked Insurance , Turaco and Acko. Nahir and Afik Gal, a medical doctor, started Assured Allies in 2018 after their own experiences as caregivers to aging family members.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Costanoa is also doubling down on cybersecurity — as the threat instance has increased with AI as well as the potential to improve security operations — and national security. In a 2018 blog post “ What the $%&* is Applied AI? With generative AI, “we can solve problems that were unsolvable two years ago,” said Sands.

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

Read on to learn more about the challenges of data security and privacy amid the pursuit of innovation, and how the right customer experience platform empowers this innovation without risking business disruption. A fraudster beats out Knowledge-based Authentication (KBA) to illegally obtain access to a customer’s account.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Founded in 2018, the company has raised $172 million, per Crunchbase. ” Marketing AI AI has had a profound effect on many sectors like biotech and cybersecurity, as many startups have added the technology to their platforms. billion valuation. artificial intelligence. It’s a reimagining of the job of being a marketer.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

IDC recently estimated that, as of 2018, Concur held onto over half of the overall T&E market.) The T&E space — which could be worth $17.4 billion by 2027, according to Grand View Research — is rife with competitors, including Concur, TripActions and Expensify. and India.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Sumutasu , a Tokyo-based proptech startup that offers a direct online real estate purchase service, has secured $8.2 The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. . million in equity and $1.6 million in debt.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

SkillsBuild courses are offered in more than 20 languages, including Spanish, covering topics such as communication, leadership skills, AI, analytics, cybersecurity, cloud, and more. Additionally, by 2022, 10% of these technical roles were held by Latino workers.

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Tenable

JANUARY 3, 2025

1 - CISA: How VIPs and everyone else can secure their mobile phone use In light of the hacking of major telecom companies by China-affiliated cyber spies, highly targeted people should adopt security best practices to protect their cell phone communications. Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending Jan.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Systemiq Capital , a backer of early-stage climate tech startups, says it has secured $70 million to kick off its second fund. The London-based VC aims to raise as much as $130 million more; that would mark quite a step up for the firm, which says it has funneled $30 million into 19 startups since 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

billion set during its 2018 Series G, per PitchBook data. From a fundraising viewpoint, the company raised more than it may have initially expected to, comparing its final price point against its initial range. From a valuation perspective, the company is now worth a multiple of its last-known private valuation, some $3.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Seeking to bring greater security to AI systems, Protect AI today raised $13.5 Protect AI claims to be one of the few security companies focused entirely on developing tools to defend AI systems and machine learning models from exploits. A 2018 GitHub analysis found that there were more than 2.5

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CIO

JUNE 18, 2024

OpenAI has appointed a former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) to its board to help oversee safety and security. Avivah Litan, distinguished VP analyst whose primary coverage areas include AI security and blockchain, had nothing but praise for his experience, but predicted his stay with the company will not last long.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The company was founded in 2018 by a quad of founders: CEO Ian Coe worked with COO Karl Hanson (they first met in middle school as well) and CTO Andrew Colombi while they were all working at Palantir, and Coe also formerly worked with the company’s head of engineering Adam Kamor while at Tableau.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Women also often encounter a lack of community due to the low numbers of women in the profession, making it harder for them to find mentors and sponsors who share their workplace experiences and challenges, says Stephanie Benoit-Kurtz, a longtime IT and cybersecurity professional. There are unconscious biases, too, says Leier-Murray.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

The company has also secured $235 million in debt. CEO Tim Heyl founded the real estate startup in late 2018 on the premise that in most cases, sellers prefer to receive all cash offers because they are more likely to close. Divvy Homes secures $110M Series C to help renters become homeowners.

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