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Dasera Scores $12M Funding for Cloud Data Security

The Series A funding round was led by Storm Ventures and brings the total raised by Dasera to $20 million.

Silicon Valley early-stage startup Dasera has banked $12 million in venture capital funding to drive innovation in the data security and governance space.

The Series A funding round was led by Storm Ventures and brings the total raised by Dasera to $20 million.

Dasera said it also took on equity investments from Correlation Ventures, Mighty Capital, Tau Ventures, Intuitive Cloud, and existing investors Sierra Ventures and Saama Capital.

Dasera competes in the crowded data security posture management category where startups large and small are jostling to automate the continuous discovery — and mitigation — of threats in multi-cloud deployments.

The startup is pitching automated data security and governance controls to streamline risk management, ensuring cloud security and privacy for organizations throughout the data lifecycle.

The company said the new capital will be used to fuel product development and expand marketing activities.

Related: Data Security Company Symmetry Systems Raises $15 Million

Related: Investors Pour $200M Into Compliance Automation Startup Drata

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Related: Metomic Lands $20M Series A for Data Security Platform

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Ryan Naraine is Editor-at-Large at SecurityWeek and host of the popular Security Conversations podcast series. He is a security community engagement expert who has built programs at major global brands, including Intel Corp., Bishop Fox and GReAT. Ryan is a founding-director of the Security Tinkerers non-profit, an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, and a regular speaker at security conferences around the world.

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