Investments and insights.
$322M RAISED | 5 DEALS | 3 COUNTRIES
- Quantifind has secured $200 million in a growth funding round led by Summit Partners.
- Straiker has raised $64 million in a Series A round led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Workday Ventures.
- Runlayer has raised $30 million in Series A funding from Felicis and Khosla Ventures.
- Nebulock has secured $25 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark.
- Dawnguard has raised an additional $3.3 million in pre-seed funding from BNVT Capital, Curiosity VC, and eCAPITAL.
Palo Alto, California-based AI-native risk intelligence firm Quantifind has secured $200 million in a growth funding round led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investors Citi Ventures, S&P Global, Deloitte, and Stephens Group. The round brings the company's total funding to $320 million. The company says the funding "will accelerate Quantifind's international expansion across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, strengthening regional partnerships, advancing regulatory alignment, and extending localized risk intelligence capabilities to help multinational financial institutions and government agencies combat increasingly sophisticated financial crime and adapt to evolving global regulatory requirements."
Mountain View, California-based agentic AI security company Straiker has raised $64 million in a Series A round led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Workday Ventures, with continued support from Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed. Ankur Shah, Straiker's co-founder and CEO, stated, "This round goes straight into product, our STAR Labs threat research, and the global expansion our enterprise customers are pulling us toward."
Israel-founded, New York-headquartered AI governance platform Runlayer has raised $30 million in Series A funding from Felicis and Khosla Ventures. According to SecurityWeek, the company "will use the funds to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams."
Boston-based contextual security platform Nebulock has secured $25 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark, with participation from existing investors Bain Capital Ventures, Decibel, Zetta Venture Partners, and Step Function.
Amsterdam-based security architecture automation platform Dawnguard has raised an additional $3.3 million in pre-seed funding from existing investor BNVT Capital in the UK, with new participation from Curiosity VC in the Netherlands and eCAPITAL in Germany, bringing its total funding to $6.3 million. The company says the new funding "will accelerate product development, AI-driven architecture intelligence, enterprise go-to-market expansion, and international growth." Dawnguard also announced the opening of an office in New York City.
Mergers and acquisitions.
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- F5 has acquired Denver-based AI governance firm SurePath AI.
- Incode has acquired Israeli cryptographic peer-to-peer identity validation provider Identiq.
- Cegeka has acquired Antwerp-based cybersecurity specialist 3Point.
Seattle-based multicloud security company F5 has acquired Denver-based AI governance firm SurePath AI. F5 says the acquisition is "a key component in the launch of the new F5 AI Security Platform to safeguard enterprise AI deployments."
San Francisco-based identity verification firm Incode has acquired Israeli cryptographic peer-to-peer identity validation provider Identiq. Ricardo Amper, Incode's founder and CEO, stated, "This acquisition enables us to broaden our fraud intelligence capabilities remarkably without ever exposing a single user’s individual data."
Belgian IT consultancy Cegeka has acquired Antwerp-based cybersecurity specialist 3Point. Cegeka stated, "This acquisition represents an important next step in Cegeka’s strategy to build a leading position in the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure sectors. By combining 3Point’s deep expertise and strong track record in highly classified environments with Cegeka’s scale and execution power, the company is significantly strengthening its ability to support these sectors in addressing increasingly complex, mission-critical challenges."
Executive moves.
Mimecast has named Ranjan Singh as its new CEO. The company's former CEO, Marc van Zadelhoff, will serve as a board advisor.
Securonix has appointed Toby Weiss as CEO. Weiss most recently served as CEO at Fiery.
Spektrum Labs has hired Mark Cravotta as Chief Operating Officer. Cravotta most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at CoreView.
Socure has appointed Mark Carter as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Carter has previously served as CISO at Navan, Tesla, and Vimeo.
Uber has hired Philip Martin as CISO. Martin previously served as Chief Security Officer at Coinbase.
IGEL has named James Millington as Field CTO for Healthcare in EMEA. Millington previously led IGEL's product marketing.
Everfox has hired Tracey Mustacchio as Chief Marketing Officer. Mustacchio has previously held leadership roles at Nitel, Secureworks, Nuance Communications, IBM, and McAfee.
One Identity has named Marianne Van Der Pluym as EMEA Channel and Alliances Director and Tracey Mead as North America Channel and Alliances Director. Van Der Pluym previously served as Global Head of Partnerships at Cryptomathic, while Mead served as VP of Global Alliances and Channels at Contrast Security.
Zscaler has appointed Joshua Costa as VP of Product Marketing for SecOps. Costa most recently served as Senior Director of Marketing at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.
Nucleus Security has named Robert Costello, former Chief Information Officer of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), as Strategic Advisor for Public Sector and Critical Infrastructure.