Email and collaboration security startup Perception Point Inc. has raised $28 million in new funding to expand to new markets, accelerate product development and hire more people. The Series B round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners and included NGP Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and State of Mind Ventures. Founded […]
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Rapid7 has purchased open-source technology Velociraptor to gain more expertise around endpoint monitoring, digital forensics, and incident response. The Boston-based cybersecurity company said its acquisition of Velociraptor will give digital forensics and incident response professionals a powerful and efficient way to hunt for and monitor malicious activities across endpoints. The […]
SaaS security management company AppOmni on Wednesday announced that it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, which brings its total funding to more than $53 million. The latest funding round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, ClearSky, Costanoa Ventures, […]
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Cape Privacy, which is developing a privacy-preserving platform for collaborative data science, today announced that it closed a $20 million series A led by Evolution Equity Partners. CEO Ché Wijesinghe says that the proceeds will be […]
Mastercard on Monday announced that it’s acquiring digital identity verification company Ekata for $850 million. The acquisition of Seattle-based Ekata is part of Mastercard’s plan to boost its identity verification capabilities. Ekata leverages data science and machine learning to help customers determine in real time whether an action — such […]
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Hypr, a cloud multifactor authentication platform, today announced it has raised $35 million in a series C round led by Advent International, doubling the company’s total funding to over $72 million. Hypr says it will leverage […]
Druva announced a $147 million investment as the company rapidly scales in response to accelerated demand for its platform. The fundraise was led by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, with a significant investment by Neuberger Berman, each of which manage more than $300 […]
OneTrust announced it has completed the acquisition of ethics and compliance leader Convercent. The Convercent technology, 150 employees, 750 customers, and global CONVERGE community will become core to the ethics and compliance offering. The acquisition brings the leading ethics and compliance technology into OneTrust’s technology platform of trust, bringing together […]
PlexTrac, a company that provides information security management solutions for security teams, last week announced closing a $10 million Series A funding round led by Noro-Moseley Partners and Madrona Venture Group, with participation from StageDotO Ventures. Founded in 2016, the Boise, Idaho-based company aims to bring red and blue teams […]
Zscaler has agreed to purchase startup Trustdome and its technology that’s used to get control over who and what has access to data, applications, and services in public cloud environments. The San Jose, Calif.-based cloud security vendor said Ramat Gan, Israel-based Trustdome’s Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) platform will help […]