Darktrace & Knowbe4 IPOs, Dell Spins Off VMWare, & Zscaler Keeps Growing – ESW #224

Adrian Sanabria

1. FUNDING – Backup firm Druva protects data in the cloud with $147M in new funding
   This is a Series H! Nearly half a billion raised with a ~$2bn valuation...
2. FUNDING – Grip Security raises $6M to improve SaaS security – TechCrunch
   Looking like a very late-stage CASB, but they're YL Ventures-founded, so they've got to have something interesting up their sleeve with smart backing and the benefits of hindsight. I'm keen to find out more. Also - $6m is what a Series A looked like less than 10 years ago!
3. FUNDING – HYPR Raises $35M Series C Led by Advent International
4. FUNDING – Enterprise security platform Intrigue expands attack surface management with $2M round
5. FUNDING – Cado Security Closes $10M in Funding to Accelerate Adoption of First and Only Cloud-Native Digital Forensics Platform
6. FUNDING – PlexTrac Closes $10 Million Round to Fuel Growth of Cybersecurity Workflow Platform – PlexTrac
7. FUNDING – Talon Cyber Security Raises $26 Million to Develop Next-Generation Cyber Security for a Distributed Workforce
8. FUNDING – Wire closes $21m Series B funding led by UVC Partners · Wire
9. FUNDING – Open Source Security Management Firm WhiteSource Raises $75 Million
10. PUBLIC OFFERING – Cybersecurity Firm Darktrace Targets $4 Billion London IPO
11. PUBLIC OFFERING – Cellebrite to go public via $2.4 billion SPAC deal
12. MARKET REPORT – Crunchbase: Cybersecurity Research Report 2021
    * Despite the global pandemic, 2020 was a record year for cybersecurity investments with over $7.8 billion invested in the industry globally. * Investment in cybersecurity companies has increased more than ninefold since 2011. * The U.S. recorded 76% of all global cybersecurity funding in 2020, at $5.9 billion. * Israel is the second leading country in the industry – over 20% of the country’s venture funding went to cybersecurity companies in 2020. * 2020 recorded six new cybersecurity unicorns, a record for a single year at the time. Just a few months into 2021, nine new cybersecurity unicorns have already emerged, well surpassing the 2020 record. * In 2021, over $3.7 billion in cybersecurity investments have been recorded globally so far. This is on pace to smash the 2020 record.
13. NEW RELEASE – Introducing OpenSearch
    A new FOSS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana from AWS
14. NEW RELEASE – Checkov 2.0: Deeper, broader, and faster IaC scanning
    BridgeCrew is already launching 2.0. The acquisition apparently isn't slowing them down much.
15. NEW RELEASE – Rumble 2.1: Notification Templates, AWS EC2 Enrichment, and Cisco SNTC Exports
    No flies on HDM
16. TRENDS – Digital artists meet scam artists, as criminals pounce on NFT craze
17. ACQUISITION – The Next Phase of Velociraptor
    Popular open source DFIR tool acquired by Rapid7. Metasploit still seems to be going strong after Rapid7 acquired it nearly 12 years ago, so this seems like a positive move.

Matt Alderman

1. Darktrace targets listing for early May
2. KKR-backed cybersecurity firm KnowBe4 aims for $3 bln valuation in U.S. IPO
3. HawkEye 360 Secures $55 Million Series C Funding Round
4. Talon Cyber Security Raises $26M in Seed Funding
5. ThreatQuotient Looks to Solve The Cyber Problem, Raises $22.5M
6. CodeLogic Raises $16 Million in Series A Funding
7. Hack The Box cybersecurity training community Raises $10.6m
8. Cybersecurity Funding: PlexTrac Raises $10 Million in Series A Financing – MSSP Alert
9. Cado Security raises $10M for cloud cybersecurity forensics
10. Cylera Raises $10M for its Cybersecurity Platform for Healthcare IoT – AlleyWatch
11. Dell spins off VMware to fuel post-pandemic PC growth opportunities
12. Zscaler Buys Startup Trustdome To Control Cloud Permissions
13. Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Cyberfish Acquired By Cofense
14. Zscaler Advances Its Zero Trust Exchange Framework
15. RiskIQ announced the launch of its RiskIQ Illuminate Internet Intelligence Platform
16. Okta Stock Rises As Cybersecurity Firm Squares Off Versus CyberArk, SailPoint
17. Thycotic & Centrify Merge to Form Cloud Identity Security Firm