💰 Security, Funded #1 - The Very First Issue

Welcome to the very first issue of Security, Funded!

Summary

• 8 companies raised $566.9M

By Category

• $300.0M for Cloud Security

• $100.1M for Identity and Access Management

• $76.3M for Threat Detection

• $54.0M for Privacy

• $27.0M for Software Security

• $9.5M for Security Analytics

By Company

• Netskope, a secure access service edge (SASE) company, raised a $300.0M Venture Round.

• 1Password, a password management platform, raised a $100.1M Series B.

• Deep Instinct, a company doing deep learning to protect against zero-day attacks, raised a $67.0M Series D.

• Didomi, a consent and preference management platform for privacy preferences, raised a $46.0M Series B.

• r2c, a company working to improve software security and reliability via open-source software, raised a $27.0M Series B.

• Opaque, a startup that does security analytics and machine learning on encrypted data in the cloud, raised a $9.5M Seed.

• ThreatWarrior, a company focusing on network and supply chain threat protection, raised a $9.3M Venture Round.

• The @ Company, a company trying to make data privacy a fundamental right by building privacy-first Internet infrastructure, raised an $8.0M Seed.

Great Reads

• The Book of Secret Knowledge - A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheat sheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools, and more.

• How Zero Knowledge Proofs Work - A breakdown of how you can let someone prove that they know or have something without giving up any information about what they know or have.