Cybersecurity startups Astra Security and Invary this week announced fresh funding rounds that will help them advance their solutions for identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring confidential computing, respectively.
Astra received $2.7 million in a growth capital round led by Emergent Ventures, with additional support from Better Capital, Blume Ventures, Neon Fund, and PointOne Capital.
Founded in 2018, the privately held US and India-based cybersecurity firm built an AI-powered pentesting platform that mimics hacker behavior to identify vulnerabilities in applications.
The company says its scanning engine incorporates more than 10,000 security tests to hunt for over 13,000 vulnerabilities, and that the solution has been adopted by more than 800 customers.
The new funding will be used to accelerate product development and build functionality to hunt for security defects in cloud environments. Astra will also focus on the use of AI for security detections.
Invary this week announced raising $3.5 million in seed funding from Flyover Capital, Hyperlink Ventures, KCRise Fund, and SineWave Ventures. The investment round brings the total raised by the company to $5.35 million, after a pre-seed funding round closed last year.
The company’s solution, built using a grant from the National Security Agency, checks the runtime integrity of systems, to protect them against tampering, persistence, and hidden threats, enabling a zero trust architecture.
The Lawrence, Kansas-based startup will use the new investment to accelerate the launch of runtime integrity verification products for Windows Kernel and eBPF, which will complement its existing Linux solution. Invary also supports the verification of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
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