Tel Aviv-founded Guardicore, an internal data centre and cloud security startup, has landed $60 million in a funding round led by Qumra Capital, with participation from DTCP, Partech, ClalTech, Battery Ventures, 83North, TPG Growth, and Greenfield Partners. This capital injection brings the total amount raised by the company to $110 million. Guardicore will use the […]
London-based AI-powered theft detection startup ThirdEye has secured £2 million in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures and True, with participation from an existing investor, Episode 1 Ventures. The startup will use the capital injection to hire more people and prepare to expand across Europe. ThirdEye’s platform applies machine learning algorithms to footage from […]
Leuven-headquartered mobile app security startup Guardsquare has secured $29 million in a funding round from Battery Ventures, which purchased a majority stake in the company, De Tijd reports. This is Guardsquare’s first round of institutional financing since the startup’s launch in 2014. Guardsquare’s security products — DexGuard for Android apps and iXGuard for iOS — are […]
London-headquartered startup Snyk has raised a $22 million Series B round of funding led by Accel, with participation from GV and existing investors Boldstart Ventures, Heavybit, and others. The startup claims to have reached a fivefold revenue growth over the past nine months with over 200 paying customers, including ASOS, Digital Ocean, and Skyscanner. The […]
Irish startup CloudRanger, which provides backup and disaster recovery solutions for AWS, has been acquired by American cloud data protection and management company Druva. CloudRanger produces cloud server management software for businesses, with an easy-to-use interface that offers users scheduling and backup policies to save time and money. The company has more than 300 customers […]
Snyk, a security solution for open source software, has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Boldstart Ventures and Canaan Partners with participation from Heavybit, FundFire, and Peter McKay, CEO of Swiss IT firm Veeam. UK-based Snyk builds security solutions that secure open source libraries used by developers. It currently supports 20 languages […]
Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup Perception Point has announced a Series A round of $8 million led by Pitango Venture Capital with participation from State of Mind Ventures and Korea Investment Partners. The company has developed a cloud-based cyber intelligence solution that detects threats at the CPU level before they are exploited. “As more and more […]