Cloud Security Orca Snaps Up Opus in Cloud Security Automation Push Orca positioned the deal as an expansion of its capabilities into the realm of AI-based autonomous remediation and prevention. Ryan NaraineMay 13, 2025
Funding/M&A Valarian Bags $20M Seed Capital for ‘Isolation-First’ Infrastructure Tech British startup exits stealth with $20 million in seed-stage financing led by US investors Scout Ventures and Artis Ventures. SecurityWeek NewsMay 8, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Pillar Security Banks $9M for AI Security Guardrails Shield Capital leads a $9 million seed-stage funding round for Israeli startup building technologies for AI security and privacy guardrails. Ryan NaraineApril 16, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Octane Raises $6.75M for Smart Contract Security Tech San Francisco smart contract security startup closes a $6.75 million seed funding round led by Archetype and Winklevoss Capital. SecurityWeek NewsApril 8, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Knostic Secures $11 Million to Rein in Enterprise AI Data Leakage, Oversharing Knostic provides a “need-to-know” filter on the answers generated by enterprise large language models (LLM) tools. Ryan NaraineMarch 5, 2025
Application Security MirrorTab Raises $8.5M Seed Round to Take on Browser-Based Attacks San Francisco startup secures $8.5 million in seed funding led by Valley Capital Partners to tackle browser-based malware attacks. Ryan NaraineFebruary 18, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Orchid Security Banks Hefty $36M Seed Round New York identity management startup raises $36 million in an unusually large seed round co-led by Team8 and Intel Capital. Ryan NaraineJanuary 14, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Opnova Banks Seed Capital to Tackle Security, IT Automation Serial entrepreneur Sinan Eren is back with Opnova, a startup working on automating security workflows with limited human supervision. Ryan NaraineSeptember 19, 2024
Funding/M&A C/side Raises $6 Million to Secure the Browser Supply Chain C/side has raised $6 million in a seed-stage funding round to help organizations protect against malicious browser third-party scripts. Ionut ArghireSeptember 17, 2024
Funding/M&A SplxAI Raises $2 Million to Protect AI Chatbot Apps SplxAI has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to help organizations identify vulnerabilities in AI chat applications. Ionut ArghireSeptember 11, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Zest Security Aims to Resolve, Not Just Mitigate Cloud Risks Zest Security emerged from stealth with $5 million funding and an AI-powered platform that resolves the root source of risk in the cloud. Kevin TownsendJuly 24, 2024
Disaster Recovery Cytactic Snags $16M Seed Funding for Cyber Crisis Management Technology Israeli startup raises $16 million in seed funding to build what is being described as a “cyber crisis readiness and management” platform. SecurityWeek NewsJuly 10, 2024
Cloud Security Cloudflare Expands Zero Trust Capabilities with Acquisition of BastionZero Cloudlfare acquires Boston seed-stage startup BastionZero to bolster its Zero Trust Network Access technology portfolio. Ryan NaraineMay 30, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Averlon Emerges From Stealth Mode With $8 Million in Funding Averson secures seed funding to build technology that uses AI to identify cloud security weaknesses and counter cyberattacks. Ionut ArghireMay 24, 2024
Data Protection Ransomware Defense Startup Mimic Raises Hefty $27M Seed Round A new Silicon Valley startup called Mimic is coming out of the shadows with a hefty $27 million seed-stage funding round led by Ballistic... Ryan NaraineMay 2, 2024
CISO Strategy BreachRx Raises $6.5M to Revamp Incident Response Reporting Systems Investors make an early-stage $6.5 million bet on BreachRx, a startup promising to shield cybersecurity executives from personal liability. Ryan NaraineApril 19, 2024
Funding/M&A Threat-Intelligence Startup VulnCheck Closes $8M Seed Financing VulnCheck banks $8 million in early stage capital to build 'exploit intelligence' technologies and services. SecurityWeek NewsApril 19, 2024
Application Security Miggo Security Gets $7.5 Million Seed Funding to Build ADR Technology YL Ventures leads an early stage funding round for Miggo Security, a Tel Aviv startup working on application detection and response technology. Kevin TownsendApril 17, 2024
Application Security NightVision Raises $5.4 Million for Application Security Testing NightVision, an early stage startup in the application security testing space, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding. Ionut ArghireApril 15, 2024
Application Security Veracode Buys Longbow Security for Automated Root Cause Analysis Tech Veracode announces a deal to acquire Longbow Security, a Texas seed-stage startup working on automated root cause analysis technology. Ryan NaraineApril 1, 2024