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Series C

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Haifa

Gili Raanan

Lior Simon

Emily Heath

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Cyberstarts

Cyberstarts is an early-stage cybersecurity focused venture capital firm.

New York

Cyera

Cloud Data Services

Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence

Cloud Security

Cyera is the data security platform that empowers security teams to manage and protect all of their company’s sensitive data.

Security

Enterprise Software

Network Security

Wiz is a cloud security platform that helps organizations rapidly identify and eliminate critical risks across multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments, enabling teams to build and run cloud workloads faster and more securely.

Fireblocks

Blockchain

Crypto

Fireblocks is the world's most trusted digital asset infrastructure company, empowering organizations of all sizes to build, manage, and grow their business on the blockchain.

Tel Aviv

Transmit Security

Transmit Security offers a CIAM platform that provides authentication, authorization, fraud protection, and embedded orchestration services.

Noname Security

Vega

Vega is on a mission to help organizations harness the power of all of their data. Wherever it is. Whatever it is. Without any of the taxes that have plagued SIEM and Data Lakes for the past 20 years.

Island

Axis Security

Blockaid

NFT/Crypto

Risk Management

Blockaid is the onchain security platform for monitoring, detecting, and responding to onchain and offchain threats. End-to-End Onchain Security. One platform for detecting and responding to onchain fraud, scams, exploits, and financial risks.

Bionic

Software

Dazz

Trail Security

AI/IoT

Trail Security is an intelligent data protection platform that builds solutions for data loss prevention.

Boston, Massachusetts

Legit Security

SaaS

The Legit Security ASPM platform is a new way to manage application security in a world of AI-first development, providing a cleaner way to manage and scale AppSec and address risks.

Savvy

Beyond (Israel)

Trustmi

Avalor

Computer

Trustdome

Transmit Security, a Boston-based startup that’s on a mission to rid the world of passwords, has raised a massive $543 million in Series A funding.

The funding round, said to be the largest Series A investment in cybersecurity history and one of the highest valuations for a bootstrapped company, was led by Insight Partners and General Atlantic, with additional investment from Cyberstarts, Geodesic, SYN Ventures, Vintage and Artisanal Ventures.

Transmit Security raises $543M Series A to kill off the password

Israeli cybersecurity company Cyera is raising $400 million at a valuation of $9 billion, led by U.S. investment firm Blackstone. The fundraising represents a sharp increase from the company’s previous round in May, when Cyera was valued at $6 billion. That round saw the cyber unicorn double its value in just six months. The latest round brings the company’s total funding to over $1.7 billion.

Cyera raises $400 million at $9 billion valuation in Blackstone-led round

Israeli cybersecurity company Cyera has raised $540 million in a Series E funding round at a $6 billion valuation, doubling its value in just six months. The round, first reported by Calcalist, brings the company’s total funding to over $1.3 billion.

Cyera doubles valuation to $6 billion with $540M Series E

A startup founded by longtime Israeli Military Intelligence leaders landed Series C funding to extend from data security posture management into data detection and response.

New York-based Cyera said the $300 million will help companies secure data amid the rise of generative AI technologies and rapid integration of artificial intelligence into business processes, said co-founder and CEO Yotam Segev. Cyera aims to simplify and enhance the effectiveness of existing corporate data protection strategies by establishing a more unified and less-fragmented approach to data security.

Cyera Gets $300M at $1.4B Valuation to Fuel Safe AI Adoption

Today, we’re announcing a milestone in that journey: a $100M Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and Cyberstarts. In a short 9 months we’ve gone from our first line of code, to landing Fortune 100 customers; and this investment is another clear sign of confidence in our progress and the unique market opportunity we have to change how cloud security is done. We’re excited that Shardul Shah, Partner at Index Ventures, Doug Leone, Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital, Jeff Horing, Managing Director at Insight Partners, and Gili Raanan of Cyberstarts will be joining the Wiz team as board members. We’ve previously had the privilege to work with Doug, Shardul, and Gili at Adallom, our first startup, and we’re excited about the opportunity to rejoin forces and take Wiz even further.

Wiz comes out of stealth with $100M Series A funding to reinvent cloud security

Wiz raised a $21 million Seed round in 2020 to build its cloud security platform, with the round co-led by Cyberstarts and joined by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures. Cyberstarts invested $6.4 million, Sequoia committed an initial $10 million, and Index Ventures invested $3.5 million, collectively backing Wiz at a $67 million post-money valuation. These early investments laid the foundation for Wiz’s rapid growth and ultimately delivered outsized returns following Google’s $32 billion acquisition.

The venture capital jackpot: How investors made billions from Wiz

Wiz’s $32 billion all-cash acquisition by Google parent Alphabet promises a colossal payday for the cybersecurity startup’s early-stage investors.

The deal is a big win for Sequoia, one of the best-known VC firms, which stands to make $3 billion, about 25x the money it invested in the company, Bloomberg reported. Despite substantial returns for Sequoia’s limited partners, their percentage gains will be far less than those of another early Wiz backer: Israel-based VC Cyberstarts.

Cybersecurity-focused Cyberstarts invested $6.4 million from its first $54 million fund toward Wiz’s seed round in February 2020.

How a $6M bet on Wiz turned into a massive 200x return for one early backer

Assaf Rapaport’s new startup Wiz has broken another record. After raising $100 million series A a mere nine months after it was founded, Calcalist has learned from a person familiar with the matter that now, just three months later, the Israel-based cloud security company has raised an additional $130 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion.
 

The funding round, which was just recently completed, was raised mostly from existing backers including venture capital funds Index Ventures, Sequoia, Insight Partners, and Cyberstarts, alongside new investors who have yet to be disclosed. The company was founded exactly one year ago and according to Calcalist’s estimate, it is the fastest Israeli company to reach unicorn status and the fastest-growing cybersecurity company. In crossing the $1 billion valuation mark it joins an elite team of cyber unicorns that include Axonious, which just recently completed a funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation and Aqua Security that did the same after its recent series E.

A unicorn on steroids: Wiz raises $130 million series B to reach $1.7 billion valuation a year after its launch

I’m thrilled to share the details of the new backers we’re partnering with. Advent International through Advent Tech led the round. Joining Advent International (Bryan Taylor and Alek Ferro) in the round is Greenoaks (Neil Mehta and Patrick Backhouse) along with our existing investors from Index Ventures (Shardul Shah), Sequoia Capital (Doug Leone and Bogomil Balkansky), Insight (Jeff Horing) and Cyberstarts (Gili Ranaan). When asked about the bet they’re placing on Wiz, Bryan Taylor, Managing Partner and head of Advent’s technology investment team in Palo Alto, shared:

Wiz becomes fastest growing security startup ever with new $1.7B valuation

Wiz, the buzzy startup building an all-in-one cloud security platform, is on an acquisition march to expand its business quickly en route to an IPO.

Now, it has closed a major round of funding of $1 billion to help on that march.

The Series E — co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive — values Wiz at $12 billion, making it one of the most highly valued startups in cybersecurity today.

The funding — which also saw participation from Greylock and Wellington Management, as well as previous backers Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Howard Schultz, Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Sequoia Capital — brings the total raised by Wiz to $1.9 billion.

That long list of big-name backers, added to the list Rappaport said it rejected, underscores the investor interest in the company at the moment.

“Wiz is nothing short of a rocket ship,” another investor, Arsham Memarzadeh of Lightspeed, said in a statement.

Wiz raises $1B at a $12B valuation to expand its cloud security platform through acquisitions

Fireblocks, a Tel Aviv, Israel and NYC-based enterprise platform for securing digital assets in transit, launched out of stealth mode with $16m in Series A funding.

Fireblocks Raises $16M in Series A Funding

Fireblocks (www.fireblocks.com) announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to $46 million. This round was led by Paradigm (https://www.paradigm.xyz) with participation from existing investors, Cyberstarts, Tenaya Capital, Swisscom, Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), and Cedar Hill Capital. Coinciding with the completion of this round of fundraising is the addition of Fred Ehrsam to Fireblocks' Board of Directors. Ehrsam is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Paradigm, and co-founder of Coinbase.

Fireblocks Raises $30 Million In Series B Funding Led By Paradigm

Fireblocks, a NYC-based crypto infrastructure provider, raised $133m in Series C funding.

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