💵 Security, Funded #33

Good morning,

A slower than average week, but was expected with all that is going on in the world.I expect that companies solving physical and digital cybersecurity needs will see big growth this year because it looks like we need it now more than ever.

It's a stressful world out there now, and there isn't a lot that I could say that will really do justice to what is happening. 🇺🇦

💰 Summary

• 8 companies raised $150.2M across 8 unique product categories

• 2 companies were acquired or had a merger event

🧩 By Product Category

• $70.0M for Cloud Security

• $20.0M for Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

• $20.0M for API Security

• $17.5M for Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM)

• $11.0M for SaaS Security

• $8.4M for Application Security

• $3.3M for Physical Security

• An undisclosed amount for Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP)

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🏢 By Company

• Balbix, a cloud security operations and threat intelligence platform, raised a $70.0M Series C.

• Bright Security, an API security testing platform, raised a $20.0M Series A.

• Scope Security, a managed detection and response (MDR) platform for hospitals, clinics, and large provider systems, raised a $20.0M Series A.

• CardinalOps, a platform focused on identifying cloud infrastructure threats and providing pre-engineered mitigations, raised a $17.5M Series A.

• VISO Trust, a SaaS-based vendor security due diligence platform, raised a $11.0M Series A.

• Feroot Security, a company focused on securing JavaScript web applications by way of synthetic user testing and server-side configurations, raised a $8.4M Seed.

• LivEye, a physical security monitoring company leveraging mobile surveillance technology, raised a $3.3M Series D.

• Lightspeed Systems, a web filtering, mobile device management, and device monitoring provider for K-12 schools, raised an undisclosed Private Equity Round.

🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions

• Ava Security, a cloud-based video security company focused on surveillance and data loss prevention, was acquired by Motorola Solutions.

• HWG, a managed security services provider (MSSP), was acquired by Investcorp.

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Each week I sift through all the noise on the Internet for the best cybersecurity jobs so you don't have to. On the board, you'll find roles spanning a variety of startups, cybersecurity product companies, banks, Fintechs, and more!

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📚 Great Reads & Finds

• Cloud Security Trends for 2022 - Ashish Rajan, creator and host of Cloud Security Podcast, makes predictions about cloud security trends for 2022 in this video on LinkedIn.

• Cybersecurity is easy - Last Week As A vCISO writer, Ayman Elsawah, shares how you to empathize a little with security practitioners and leaders (also has a good list of stuff CISOs and security leaders have to handle, which is a good reminder of the stuff I’ve forgotten to do, brb 👀)

• Attack Flow - ATT&CK Flow helps executives, SOC managers, and defenders easily understand how attackers compose ATT&CK techniques into attacks by developing a representation of attack flows, modeling attack flows for a small corpus of incidents, and creating visualization tools to display attack flows.

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