Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It has been sluggish on the M&A front in most sectors all year — and cybersecurity is no different. However, on Thursday New York-based data security startup Cyera bought data loss prevention firm Trail Security for $162 million. In April, Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The same can be said about tech sectors in 2022 more generally. For example, the basket of cloud stocks that we track was off 45% year to date before the open today, while cybersecurity index funds ($IHAK, $CIBR, etc.) Cybersecurity stocks have given back some gains this year; they are not immune from market repricing.

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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 billion in 2022, according to Momentum Cyber. The popularity comes in part from the rise in cyberattacks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

RPA is a growing megatrend — by 2022, Gartner predicts that 90% of organizations globally will have adopted RPA and its received over $1.8 Throughout 2021, security teams will begin to realize the unconsidered security challenges of robotic process automation. billion in investments in the past two years alone.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Cybersecurity and systemic risk are two sides of the same coin. Although it was not a security event, the symptoms and responses all fall into the various categories of the cybersecurity program for any company. Systemic risk and overall cybersecurity posture require board involvement and oversight.

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2025

The growing threat posed by Agentic AI and disinformation has become one of the most critical challenges in the cybersecurity landscape. The event, hosted at the Dubai World Trade Centre, highlighted the urgent need for organizations to adapt their cybersecurity measures to address the evolving digital threats.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But even with that in mind, 2022 just hit different. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had officially charged Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors. Proving that home automation can be a tough nut to crack, Insteon abruptly shut down in mid-April 2022, turning off its cloud servers without giving customers any warning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Israeli cybersecurity industry, much like the global one, has been undergoing an evolution that seemed to peak in 2021 with soaring funding rounds, overwhelming valuations, and multiple newly minted unicorns, only to cool down dramatically amidst the market slowdown of 2022 with steep declines and frozen growth rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Meet Bastion , a French startup that was created in October 2022 to help small companies tackle cybersecurity risks without too many complexities. What makes Bastion different from other cybersecurity startups is that it wants to be your first and last cybersecurity subscription. And this is Bastion.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Plus, OWASP is offering guidance about deepfakes and AI security. Those are three security measures cyber teams should proactively take in response to an ongoing and “large scale” email spear-phishing campaign targeting victims with malicious RDP files , according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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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. Founded in 2022, the company has raised $845 million, per Crunchbase. Securing endpoints has been a main pillar of cybersecurity since the industry started. Check out Januarys biggest rounds here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While the index is focused on quarterly growth, Runa just published its first annual report looking at COSS startup trends throughout the whole of 2022, as well as some broader trends dating back to the index’s inception nearly three years ago. The top 50 fastest-growing open source startups in 2022.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2024, cybersecurity has become a top priority for businesses across the globe. And with good reason – the cost of cybercrime globally now stands at over $8 trillion, with our proprietary research finding that an overwhelming 96% of companies experienced a cybersecurity incident in 2022.

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CIO

MAY 28, 2024

Today’s organizations face challenges from multiple directions, including threats to the business from state-sponsored cyberattacks, geopolitical turmoil, inflation, and a shortage of security skills. One of the recurring themes among security leaders is the importance of adaptability in the face of evolving cyber threats.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

For 2022, our experts have outlined some healthcare digital transformation trends that they feel will assist healthcare professionals continue to provide high-quality treatment for all of us. Everyone allowed access to patient records would be able to access them quickly and securely. The Future of Healthcare Innovation .

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CIO

JULY 10, 2024

Businesses are investing great sums of money in generative AI – to the point that GenAI spending in 2025 will be nearly seven times greater than it was in 2022, according to IDC historical data and forecasts. In many cases, it’s cybersecurity, which ranks at the top of the list of factors driving increased IT spending in 2024.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Investors believe the market correction, which caught up with the continent in the second half of 2022, will spiral into this year. Despite the challenges that emerged in the second half of the year, 2022 was another year of growth for Africa in terms of total funding raised, number of deals and number of investors involved.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Since 2022, the tech industry has experienced massive layoffs, as large tech companies have reduced their workforce numbers in response to rising interest rates and emerging generative AI technology. Then, in 2022, as pandemic restrictions began to lift, the US Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in response to historic levels of inflation.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The company which secured around $30 million in total with its last priced round (Series E) in January 2016, plans to raise less or a similar amount when going public in 2022. Most companies when going public, tend to raise more money than their private equity days. But it’s quite different with IROKO.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Steve Zalewski Contributor Share on Twitter Steve Zalewski is the former CISO of Levi Strauss and the founder of S3 Consulting, an executive advisory practice to security companies and VC firms on product-market-fit and go-to-market strategy for security startups. billion in 2022 to $267.3

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

The startup’s success can be partially attributed to strong investor interest in the cybersecurity sector — interest that has proven robust to macroeconomic headwinds (so far). Cybersecurity VC funding surged to a record $11.5 And in the first half of 2022, it hit $12.5 billion in 2021. That’s not surprising.

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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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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Other leading sectors included autonomous driving, healthcare, robotics, professional services, security and military, Crunchbase data shows. Q4 push The higher total in 2024 was due to a big push in Q4 which saw the highest funding total since the downturn in Q3 2022. Early stage flat Early-stage funding was flat in Q4.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hypernative , a crypto security-focused startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth, co-founder and CEO Gal Sagie exclusively told TechCrunch. In 2022, the majority of losses, or $3.77 billion, were from hacks across 134 specific incidents, according to Immunefi’s Crypto Losses 2022 report.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

billion in 2023, a significant decrease from 2022. While you might think the general fervor around all things artificial intelligence means 2024 is a new high for the intersection of AI and biotech/healthcare, both 2021 and 2022 were strong funding years for the space. billion through early December, per Crunchbase data.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Per a recent report from Carta , funds raised in the 2022 vintage year had deployed 43% of committed capital at the 24-month mark, the lowest share of any analyzed vintage. Not just fewer funds; less capital too Not only are investors raising fewer new funds; they’re securing less capital too. This year, a total of $13.7

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Melissa Vito, vice provost for academic innovation at UTSA, admits she first heard about ChatGPT while getting her hair cut in 2022, and immediately thought the university needed to get ahead of it. Academic technology has become an industry in itself over the past 20 years, and has totally reframed what’s possible on campus.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Meanwhile, an informal Tenable poll looks at cloud security challenges. government is urging software makers to adopt secure application-development practices that help prevent buffer overflow attacks. For more information about the threat from quantum computing: Is Quantum Computing a Cybersecurity Threat?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Oligo Security , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth today and announcing that it has raised a total of $28 million in seed and Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, Kyle Wiggers reported that investment into the sector fell in the fourth quarter of 2022 to its “lowest level since Q1 2020,” Anna Heim spoke with investors who are still hanging in there and Mary Ann Azevedo wrote about M&A exits , which insurtech led in 2021. Akilia Partners and Samsung Next.

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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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