TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

RedHat today announced that it’s acquiring container security startup StackRox. StackRox’s acquisition is part of some consolidation we have been seeing in the Kubernetes space in general and the security space more specifically. That includes Palo Alto Networks acquiring competitor TwistLock for $410 million in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Dropbox announced today that it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million The company helps customers share and track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment. It’s worth noting that Box offers a similar secure document sharing capability enabling users to share a link instead of using an attachment.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and another eight raised $100 million or more, with industries from cybersecurity to biotech to AI represented. Armis Security , $200M, cybersecurity: Cybersecurity startup Armis Security closed a $200 million Series D led by Alkeon Capital and General Catalyst.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

The accelerated cloud adoption led to a rise in security issues. executives by PwC, cloud-related risks were top of the cybersecurity agenda, with 39% respondents expecting such security risks to “significantly affect” their organization in the coming months. In a recent poll of U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Cloud monitoring platform Datadog has announced that it plans to acquire Sqreen , a software-as-a-service security platform. Sqreen is a cloud-based security product to protect your application directly. Sqreen’s security shield automagically blocks attacks on your web app. Sqreen raised a $2.3

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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. While a cybersecurity company, Cyera is certainly riding the AI wave.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Enter Securiti , a startup launched in 2019, originally with the idea of focusing on one aspect of data control, data privacy. But the company had the vision of building a broad platform of services to deal with not just privacy, but also data security, governance and compliance. It seems to be working.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

In fact, it took $200 million or more to make the list last month, as defense tech and cybersecurity led the way. NinjaOne , $500M, cybersecurity: NinjaOne, which provides endpoint management, security and monitoring, raised $500 million in Series C extensions at a $5 billion valuation more than doubling its value from just 12 months ago.

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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

MAY 2, 2022

According to Salt Labs, the research division of Salt Security (which sells API cybersecurity products, granted), API attacks from March 2021 to March 2022 increased nearly 681%. You can no longer easily buy or hire security people, so you need to solve these vulnerabilities via technology.” ”

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals remain in high demand. An example of the new reality comes from Salesforce.

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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 28, 2023

The plans also include launching a new security robot alongside its models dedicated to delivery. CEO of Neubility Sangmin Lee told TechCrunch that it’s been focused on developing hardware and software for its latest effort, delivery robots, since late 2019. Delivery robots will be a $1.8 billion in 2021, per a recent report.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

June 4, 2019 should have been one of the happiest days of my life. a press release hit the wire announcing that the cybersecurity company I had spent more than eight years building was being acquired by a larger cybersecurity player. More posts by this contributor. Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation. At 11:30 a.m.,

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Tenable

JANUARY 23, 2025

A zero-day vulnerability in SonicWalls Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 was reportedly exploited in the wild according to researchers. Background On January 22, SonicWall published a security advisory (SNWLID-2025-0002) for a newly disclosed vulnerability in its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 product, a remote access solution.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engineers and analysts build, visualize and operate AI projects, network security and other complicated architectures that might have a number of components working (or malfunctioning as the case may be) in tandem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

PayEm , as it came to be known, launched in 2019 — Jobani partnered with fellow developer Omer Rimoch to get the idea off of the ground. billion in 2019 and could reach $3.97 Tipalti , which automates accounts payables for small- and medium-sized businesses, recently secured $270 million. billion by 2027. billion ). .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Prior to this round, the company received $550,000 in pre-seed funding from Kamet in March 2019. NSure AI, which currently monitors and manages millions of transactions every month, has approved close to $1 billion in volume since going live in 2019. 12 top cybersecurity VCs discuss investing, valuations and no-go zones.

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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. The firm incubated Vannevar Labs in 2019, before defense tech and AI were as popular as they are today.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

There have also been security issues when it comes to platforms holding control of a user’s private keys. Users use keys as accounts to trade, hold assets, or just interact with blockchains, so control and security of those keys are important,” chief executive officer and co-founder Zhen Yu Young told TechCrunch.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Twenty five years after the launch of CVE, the Tenable Security Response Team has handpicked 25 vulnerabilities that stand out for their significance. The Tenable Security Response Team has chosen to highlight the following 25 significant vulnerabilities, followed by links to product coverage for Tenable customers to utilize.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Building off of a 2019 study by TransAmerica Center that found only one in five workers has a written retirement strategy, the company provides similar offerings to other retirement planning companies: a dedicated advisor and products and services for investing, planning and spending. “You It’s a first-of-its-kind of product.”.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Not surprisingly, those two rounds came from the cybersecurity and biotech industries. NinjaOne , $500M, cybersecurity: NinjaOne, which provides endpoint management, security and monitoring, raised $500 million in Series C extensions at a $5 billion valuation more than doubling its value from just 12 months ago.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Specifically, HYCU sells products — most of them self-serve — for cloud migration, security credential management, disaster recovery, and backup and recovery. As of early 2019, Rubrik was valued at a whopping $3.3 In 2019, IDC estimated that the market for data replication and protection software was worth $9.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The company’s last funding announcement was in February 2019, when it hit unicorn status with a Series D of $300 million. Part of its Series D had been earmarked to expand into India, but Lalamove was among 43 apps that were banned by the government, citing cybersecurity concerns. All three are returning investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

While Generally Intelligent’s co-founders might not have traditional AI research backgrounds — Qiu was an algorithmic trader for two years — they’ve managed to secure support from several luminaries in the field. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Looking back in time, Wish saw its revenue growth slow in 2019, before expanding much more quickly in 2020. But from 2018 to 2019, its revenue only grew to $1.90 In the first nine months of 2019, Wish racked up revenues of $1.33 That’s far better than the 10% growth pace that Wish showed in 2019. billion and $1.73

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Descope was founded last April by the members of the core team that built the security operations platform Demisto, which Palo Alto Networks acquired in March 2019. Security teams get app security flows that they can review and audit for compliance. In 2021, VC investment in identity management startups reached $3.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Belong , a startup that aims to address both these issues while giving renters a way to save toward home ownership, has just raised $50 million in equity and secured $30 million in debt to expand its offerings and markets it serves. The round was preempted by Fifth Wall, noted Belong co-founder and president Owen Savir.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The automaker said on Tuesday that it will now let other companies buy its commercial electric vans, ending an exclusivity deal that Amazon secured when it pumped more than a billion dollars into Rivian in 2019. Rivian vans are no longer an Amazon exclusive. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Founded by Yuri Frayman, Leon Kuperman and Laurent Gil in 2019, Cast AI — powered by AI, as the name implies — analyzes a company’s cloud usage to attempt to find the optimal cost-performance ratio. “We will add automated security capabilities into the Cast AI platform. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After a breakthrough on a system called Dex-Net , Goldberg and Jeff Mahler, a former doctoral student, launched the company in 2019, along with other scientists and engineers from UC Berkeley. As of 2019, the global warehouse automation market was worth about $15 billion, according to Statista.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Over time the Boston area watched the development of a robust technology startup ecosystem across industries like cybersecurity, robotics and biotech with companies like Hubspot, Wayfair, Rapid7, Boston Dynamics and Moderna, to name but a few. billion in 2019. “I billion in 1995, VMware bought cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The round was led by Hanhwa Investment & Securities, with participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia (the early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group), SK Networks, Aarden Partners and other strategic partners. CHAI wants to fix this with an API that enables companies to accept over 20 payment systems.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

That has now changed: the global influencer marketing market has more than doubled since 2019 and is poised to be valued at $13.8 Goldberg noted that Carro got started when influencer marketing was a relatively new term and people had large followings, but not an easy way to get connected to brands. billion in 2021.

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