TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

George Gerchow is the chief security officer at Sumo Logic. He spent 16 years in the Marine Corps in various military and civilian roles, but none directly involved cybersecurity. In 2020, Roland was promoted to senior SOC manager. Cybersecurity is too important to risk having team members who can’t (no pun intended) hack it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses — and VCs. While a decline from the previous year, venture capital funding in the cybersecurity sector totaled $18.5 PitchBook data shows a decline in cybersecurity valuations at the seed and Series A stages in particular.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 Put simply, Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I edited hundreds of stories in 2020, so choosing my favorites would be an exercise in futility. “Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. Cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed. While most African pre-seed investments in 2020 went to fintech, there were exceptions, including Egyptian edtech startup Zedny, which raised $1.2 Egypt’s Shahry and Nigeria’s Evolve Credit are fintech startups building credit infrastructure for their markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cloud security startup Monad, which offers a platform for extracting and connecting data from various security tools, has launched from stealth with $17 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures. . “Security is fundamentally a big data problem,” said Christian Almenar, CEO and co-founder of Monad.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

CIOs are responsible for much more than IT infrastructure; they must drive the adoption of innovative technology and partner closely with their data scientists and engineers to make AI a reality–all while keeping costs down and being cyber-resilient. That mandates an end-to-end, multi-layered, dynamic cybersecurity approach.

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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. Infrastructure and data provisioning to manage and operate AI grew. Of those AI dollars, almost a third of all AI funding went to foundation model companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Veriti, a platform for unifying cybersecurity infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 Veriti’s launch comes as VCs continue to show enthusiasm for cybersecurity startups despite the generally unfavorable funding climate. billion in 2020. “Enterprise security posture is usually sub-optimal. .

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

1 - New cyber guides unpack how to secure network edge wares Looking for insights and best practices for preventing and mitigating cyberattacks against network edge hardware and software devices, such as routers, VPN gateways, IoT devices, web servers and internet-facing operational technology (OT) systems? And a new U.K. And much more!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Security has a data problem. Tishbi — who spent time at CitiBank and digital entertainment startup Playtika before joining Datorama — says he often worked with security teams that had to juggle dozens of different tools, each with their own taxonomies and outputs, in order to get projects finished on time.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Innovate Shane McDaniel, CIO for the City of Seguin, Texas, says his city has grown by about 35% since the 2020 census. I am excited about the potential of generative AI, particularly in the security space, she says. So, in keeping with the New Years spirit, we asked multiple CIOs about their professional resolutions for 2025.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Oi Yee Choo, chief commercial officer of digital securities platform iSTOX. iSTOX , a digital securities platform that wants to make private equity investment more accessible, has added new investors from Japan to its Series A round, bringing its total to $50 million. million in funding.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2024

ADIB-Egypt has announced plans to invest 1 billion EGP in technological infrastructure and digital transformation by 2025. From the launch of its mobile banking app in 2020 to the enhancement of its internet banking services, ADIB-Egypt has consistently focused on providing convenient, secure, and user-friendly digital banking solutions.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Orsini notes that it has never been more important for enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To combat this, railway companies demand more robust cyber solutions and lawmakers across the globe call for more effective cybersecurity regulations. Cylus , a Tel Aviv-based rail cybersecurity startup, built a cybersecurity solution, CylusOne, to protect the global mainline and urban railway companies from an array of threats and risks.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

million packages in 2020, and hit the 2.5 While the company would not disclose hard revenue figures, Patton says it tripled its year-over-year ARR (annual recurring revenue) in 2020 and GAAP revenue grew 6x year-over-year. The money will also go toward investing in its tech stack and operational infrastructure, Patton said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As the enterprise device supply chain grows increasingly global and fragmented, it’s becoming more challenging for organizations to secure their hardware and software from suppliers. Eclypsium’s cloud management dashboard Image Credits: Eclypsium.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I give credit to all the team members within my group, from help desk to infrastructure to the application and software engineers to all of Novanta team members, because you can’t do cybersecurity alone, it’s a team event. And as life happened between 2020 and now, here we are in 2024, kicking it off. So, always be honest.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Aqua Security , a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based security startup that focuses squarely on securing cloud-native services, today announced that it has raised a $135 million Series E funding round at a $1 billion valuation. In total, Aqua Security has now raised $265 million since it was founded in 2015.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

How did fashion marketplace Poshmark go from posting regular losses in 2019 to generating net income in 2020? The breach of FireEye and SolarWinds by hackers working on behalf of Russian intelligence is “the nightmare scenario that has worried cybersecurity experts for years,” reports Zack Whittaker. Stage Light on Black.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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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

MARCH 28, 2025

That includes two cybersecurity firms and two companies in the transportation space. Island , $250M, cybersecurity: Dallas-based enterprise browser developer Island raised a $250 million Series E at a $4.8 Founded in 2020, the company has raised $810 million, per Crunchbase. A big week for big-money rounds. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Back in 2015, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely hacked into a Jeep Cherokee driven by a Wired reporter , Andy Greenberg, in an attempt to warn the auto industry of potential pitfalls in their software and inspire legislation around automotive cybersecurity. Upstream Security reels in $9M Series A to protect connected cars.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The extra money followed big traction in 2020 for the Armenian company, which grew its customers and revenue by more than an order of magnitude. To be specific, Baghdasaryan told me that 2020 brought the company a 20x increase in active users, a 23x increase in enterprise accounts and 13x improvement of annual recurring revenue.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Brick was founded in 2020 by chief executive officer Gavin Tan, an early employee at Aspire, a neobank for small- to mid-sized businesses, and chief technology Deepak Malhotra, previously co-founder of Indian neobank Slice and a former PayPal engineer. For example, Bank Indonesia published open banking API standards in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The startup added 70 integrations with identity providers, security tools, collaboration software, ticketing and cloud infrastructures platforms in 2021 alone. . The startup had commercial agreements with Similarweb, Riskified, Fiverr, Unity and more. . There is an insatiable appetite for data protection and privacy today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

What makes ZenGo different from other wallet apps is that the company is trying to build something that is more secure than your average crypto wallet while remaining simple to use and understand. Other crypto companies focused on infrastructure and enterprise clients have also opted for MPC as their security model.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Axio , a platform for cybersecurity risk evaluation, today announced the closure of a $23 million Series B round led by Temasek’s ISTARI, with participation from investors NFP Ventures, IA Capital Group and former BP CEO Bob Dudley. Image Credits: Axio.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The company announced today that it is now the highest-valued digital asset infrastructure provider in the world after receiving an $8 billion valuation, nearly four times higher than the sum it commanded during its Series D six months ago. “They can customize [our product] exactly according to their policies and requirements.”.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

VPN technologies have long been the backbone of remote access, but according to new ThreatLabz research, the security risks and performance challenges of VPNs may be rapidly changing the status quo for enterprises. One key striking trend: enterprises are beginning to transition en masse to adopt zero trust solutions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The instant payment platform lets merchants make, manage and receive secure payments by connecting directly from the payer’s bank to a merchant’s bank. . According to FIS’s global payment report 2020, A2A payments will take up 20% of all e-commerce payments, surpassing credit and debit cards by 2023. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Quantum computing promises to unlock a new wave of processing power for the most complex calculations, but that could prove to be just as harmful as it is helpful: security specialists warn that malicious hackers will be able to use quantum machines to break through today’s standards in cryptography and encryption.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You will be excused if you haven’t heard of Wiz , an 18-month-old Israeli security startup from Microsoft Azure vets, but it has already been turning heads by raising $550 million on a $6 billion valuation. (No, The way it works is that admins can define the security policy they want to apply to the code in the pipeline.

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