💰 Security, Funded #40

Good  morning,

I hope you had a great weekend!

We've got a lot of variation on product categories this week in the newsletter and more than a few of them made me go 🤔

You'll also start to notice more events on fraud and financial crimes as well as Web3 technologies, as there is a great convergence happening in these spaces with cybersecurity.

Let's dive in.

💰 Summary

• 15 companies raised $429.1M across 13 unique product categories
• 5 companies were acquired or had a merger event for $6.8M

🧩 By Product Category

• $125.0M for Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM)
• $103.0M for Fraud & Financial Crime Protection
• $100.0M for Endpoint Protection
• $60.0M for Blockchain Security
• $25.3M for Data Protection
• $5.4M for Penetration Testing
• $5.0M for Security Data Lake (SDL)
• $2.7M for Threat Intelligence
• $2.4M for Secure Messaging
• $255.0K for Personal Cybersecurity
• An undisclosed amount for Secure Networking
• An undisclosed amount for Professional Services
• An undisclosed amount for Passwordless Authentication

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🏢 By Company

• Fortress Information Security, a threat and vulnerability management (TVM) platform, raised a $125.0M Series C from Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
• ThreatLocker, a platform that adds zero trust policy enforcement to the endpoint, raised a $100.0M Series C from General Atlantic.
• SEON, a fraud prevention platform, raised a $94.0M Series B from Institutional Venture Partners.
• CertiK, a blockchain security company, raised a $60.0M Series B from Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Vision Fund.
• Basis Theory, a data tokenization company, raised a $17.0M Series A from Bessemer Venture Partners and Conversion Capital.
• Themis, a governance and compliance platform for financial crimes, raised a $9.0M Venture Round from.
• Privy, an API platform for encrypting Web3 user data, raised a $3.8M Seed from Sequoia Capital.
• Strike, an automated and continuous pen testing platform, raised a $5.4M Seed from Greyhound Capital.
• Dassana, a cloud security data lake platform, raised a $5.0M Seed from Dell Technologies Capital.
• alphaMountain, a cyber threat intelligence platform, raised a $2.7M Seed from Prelude Fund.
• SpiderOak, a secure messaging and collaboration platform, raised a $2.4M Venture Round.
• Arbor Steel, a platform that lets individuals share their identity verification and Know Your Customer (KYC) information in a secure and auditable fashion, raised a $255.0K Pre-Seed.
• Authtech, a platform that uses your cell phone camera flash to authenticate mobile transactions, raised an undisclosed Seed.
• Synergy Quantum, a post-quantum encryption networking company, raised an undisclosed Seed.
• Xahive, a professional services firm focused on secure communications, raised an undisclosed Seed.

🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions

• Netbull, a professional services firm focused on incident response and operations, was acquired by ADACOM for $6.8M.
• Cyberian Technologies, a professional services firm focused on cybersecurity, was acquired by Meriplex for an undisclosed amount.
• Elevative Networks, a managed services provider (MSP), was acquired by Rimstorm for an undisclosed amount.
• Kognos, a cloud security operations platform, was acquired by Devo Technology for an undisclosed amount.
• SOC.OS, a security operations center as a service (SOCaaS) platform, was acquired by Sophos for an undisclosed amount.

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📚 Great Reads & Finds

• MegaBlock - Don't like someone's tweet? Block the tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it - in one click.
• 6 Principles for Startup Security - A guide from Vanta on creating a pragmatic security program for startups. This guide will be helpful for cloud-native startups and those migrating workloads to the cloud.
• Maturing Your Toolkit with Mental Models - From Fernando Montenegro, maturing your cybersecurity program's toolkit with better mental models.

🧪 Labs

Some OpSec fails are totally worth it for the lulz

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Cheers,

Mike P