๐ฐ Security, Funded #8
Cybersecurity funding and M&A news from the week of August 23rd, 2021.
Table of Contents

Summary
- 6 companies raised $138.3M
By Category
- $62.0M for Security Operations
- $30.0M for Extended Detection & Response (XDR)
- $17.0M for Security Analytics
- $17.0M for Cyber Insurance
- $12.0M for IoT Security
- $250.0K for Security Awareness
By Company
- Upstream Security, a centralized security & analytics platform for connected & autonomous vehicle fleets, raised a $62.0M Series C.
- Hunters, a cloud-naive extended detection and response (XDR) platform, raised a $30.0M Series B.
- Monad, a platform making security data easy and accessible for DevOps and cloud engineering teams, raised a $17.0M Series A.
- Sayata Labs, a cyber analytics platform to empower the insurance industry in assessing cyber risk, raised a $17.0M Series A.
- Armored Things, a predictive incident and emergency response platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) to respond to cyber-physical threats and attacks, raised a $12.0M Series A.
- Hook Security, a cybersecurity training company introducing Psychological Security to the outdated Security Awareness Training industry, raised a $250.0K Seed.
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Other Reads
- Cloud Security Orienteering - How to rapidly understand and secure a cloud environment by Rami McCarthy. Another great piece orchestrated by Clint Gibler and the team at tldrsec.
- Ransomware and AWS - Six ways to reduce your blast radius in AWS.