Top stories.
- CrowdStrike and Check Point intend to acquire AI security companies.
- SEON closes $80 million funding round.
- Israeli startups Irregular and Vega emerge from stealth with significant funding.
Mergers and acquisitions.
CrowdStrike has announced its intent to acquire Palo Alto, California-based enterprise AI security firm Pangea. CrowdStrike stated, "The Falcon platform already delivers the foundation to secure AI, protecting the environments and models where AI runs, preventing sensitive data from leaving endpoints and cloud workloads, and securing AI agents across the SaaS stack. Pangea will extend this protection to the critical interaction layer – where AI is built and used across the enterprise – delivering complete protection across the AI lifecycle, providing the visibility and control organizations need to keep prompts and AI systems operating securely at scale."
Israeli cybersecurity provider Check Point has agreed to acquire San Francisco- and Zurich-based AI application security company Lakera. Check Point stated, "By combining Lakera’s runtime protection with the AI-powered Check Point Infinity architecture, enterprises can secure the full lifecycle of AI – models, agents and data – enabling them to innovate with confidence, at scale, and without compromise." The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025.
New York-based supply chain risk management company SecurityScorecard has acquired security questionnaire automation provider HyperComply (also based in New York). The company stated, "The acquisition closed earlier this month and will combine SecurityScorecard’s global scale and ecosystem with HyperComply’s AI innovation. Customers can expect to see integrated offerings beginning in late 2025, with the ultimate goal of establishing continuous, automated trust operations across the entire enterprise supply chain. For European and international enterprises, the merger embeds automated questionnaire response and evidence sharing into SecurityScorecard’s continuous ratings, helping them meet strict mandates like GDPR, DORA, and NIS2 while supporting data sovereignty and accelerating cross-border vendor onboarding."
Accenture has acquired Toronto-based identity and access management firm IAMConcepts. Accenture says "[t]he acquisition will bolster Accenture’s ability to deliver advanced IAM solutions in Canada across key critical infrastructure industries such as financial services, power utilities, mining, and transportation."
New York-based gamified cybersecurity training company Hack the Box has acquired Virginia-based blue team upskilling platform LetsDefend. Haris Pylarinos, Founder & CEO at Hack The Box, stated, "Together with LetsDefend, we will provide a one-stop platform where aspiring penetration testers and SOC analysts can learn side by side, effectively gamifying the entire cyber kill chain."
Manhattan-headquartered IT consulting firm Fairdinkum has acquired Long Island-based MSSP Tech 2020 Solutions. The company stated, "This acquisition marks another milestone in Fairdinkum’s ongoing expansion strategy, enhancing its ability to deliver comprehensive IT solutions to clients throughout Long Island and the greater New York City area. The procurement expands Fairdinkum’s client base by approximately 100 new clients, serving more than 700 users in a variety of industries."
Investments and exits.
Israeli AI model security company Irregular (formerly Pattern Labs) has emerged from stealth $80 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Swish Ventures and angel investors including Assaf Rappaport and Ofir Ehrlich. The company was founded in 2023 by Dan Lahav (CEO) and Omer Nevo (CTO), and contracts with top AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Texas-based fraud prevention company SEON has raised $80 million in a Series C round led by Sixth Street Growth, with participation from Hearst and existing investors IVP, Creandum, and Firebolt. The company says the funding will be used to "accelerate our global expansion, advance AI-powered product development, and support strategic talent acquisition."
Israeli device posture management firm Remedio (formerly "GYTPOL") has raised $65 million in its first funding round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from TLV Partners and Picture Capital. The company said the investment "will fuel our global expansion and accelerate our product vision to set a new standard in device posture management."
Israeli security analytics company Vega emerged from stealth yesterday with a total of $65 million in funding across seed and Series A rounds, SecurityWeek reports. The company was founded in 2024 by Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen, both former members of the IDF's Unit 8200. Calcalist reports that the startup is backed by Cyberstarts, Accel, Redpoint, and CRV, and is valued at approximately $400 million. Reuters says the company plans to "use the funds to significantly expand its research and development and its operations in the United States, its main market."
Tysons Corner, Virginia-based governance, risk, and compliance firm RegScale has raised more than $30 million in an oversubscribed Series B round led by Washington Harbour Partners, with participation from M12, Hitachi Ventures, and Ankona Capital, and existing investors SYN Ventures and SineWave Ventures. The company says the funding will "fuel key hires across R&D and sales, enabling the company to deliver increased impact to its growing customer base."
Florida-based managed detection and response firm TENEX.AI has raised $27 million in a Series A round led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, with full participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Shield Capital. The company says the funding "will fuel aggressive expansion, including accelerating engineering hires to advance the TENEX agentic AI platform, scaling sales and marketing to capture surging demand, and enhancing support for its rapidly growing enterprise customer base."
Israeli data security startup Ray Security has emerged from stealth with $11 million in seed funding led by Venture Guides and Ibex Investors. The company says the funding "will be used to accelerate product development and go-to-market expansion in the United States."
Israeli identity security solution provider Fabrix has emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding led by Norwest, toDay Ventures, and Jibe Ventures. The company says the funding "will be used for additional product development as well as sales and marketing."
Netherlands- and UK-based Naq has secured €6 million (US$7 million) in a Series A round led by Automate Health. The company stated, "The investment will see the organisation accelerate product development, expanding its AI capabilities and adding additional standards to its compliance platform, including Medical Device Regulation, ISO 42001, SOC2, and HIPAA. It will also see its clinical and cybersecurity teams grow - advancing its mission to become the default infrastructure for digital health compliance in the UK and across Europe."
San Francisco-based Scalekit, a company that provides an authentication stack for AI apps, has secured $5.5 million in seed funding led by Together Fund and Z47, with participation from angel investors including Adam Frankl, Oliver Jay, Jagadeesh Kunda, and others. The company says it "plans to deepen its agent-centric identity roadmap with capabilities such as background agent support, deepen tool-calling, granular auth logs, and prebuilt connectors for over 1,000 external apps."
French zero-trust security startup Nucleon Security has raised €3 million (US$3.5 million) in a seed funding round led by NewFund Capital, with participation from Orange Ventures, Axian Group, LoftyInc Capital, and CDG Invest through the 212Founders program. The company, which also has an office in Morocco, says the investment "will enable Nucleon Security to industrialize its agentic AI technology across all its solutions, accelerate its commercial development in Europe and Africa, while continuing its strategic R&D efforts."
San Francisco-based cyber investigation platform Miru Labs has emerged from stealth with $2.7 million in pre-seed funding led by Dreamcraft Ventures, Cadenza, and Seedcamp, with participation from Inovia Capital, Plug and Play Tech Center, and Notion Capital.
Sunnyvale, California-based data access security firm Aurva has emerged from stealth with $2.2 million in seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from DeVC and angel investors. The company says it "will use the funding to expand its engineering team, deepen AI observability capabilities, and support growing demand from U.S. and global enterprise customers."
Passguard, a Dutch company that monitors criminal marketplaces for evidence of infostealer attacks, has raised $585,000 in pre-seed funding led by Dimitri van Zantvliet, Cybersecurity Director at Dutch Railways, Rogier Fischer, founder and CEO of Hadrian, and Pieter Jansen, founder and former CEO of Cybersprint and currently partner at Ctrl+Alt+Invest. Passguard's CEO Tom Leijte stated, "With this funding we’re investing in making our data as scalable and accessible as possible through our API, enabling security integrators to deploy it directly for their clients."
Austin, Texas-based browser security startup Neon Cyber has emerged from stealth with an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Silverton Partners.
Executive moves.
The Global Cyber Alliance has appointed its COO Brian Cute as interim CEO following the retirement of its founding CEO Philip Reitinger.
CyberArk has named Omer Grossman as Chief Trust Officer and head of the company's CYBR Unit. Ariel Pisetzky will succeed Grossman as CyberArk's Chief Information Officer.
Halcyon has appointed Tony Spinelli as Field CISO and Gary Hayslip as Senior Security Advisor. Spinelli previously led security programs at Capital One, Tyco International, Equifax, and First Data Corporation, while Hayslip most recently served as Global CISO at SoftBank Investment Advisers.
MIND has named Jimmy Tsang as Chief Marketing Officer. Tsang joined MIND in 2023, and previously served as Vice President of Marketing at Pondurance.
DataDome has named Leta Amburgey as Chief Customer Officer. Amburgey previously served as Vice President of Global Customer Success & Delivery at Vimeo.
Portnox has appointed AppFire CEO Matt Dircks to its board of directors.
Datadog has added Ami Vora to its board of directors. Vora most recently served as Chief Product Officer at Faire.