Cybersecurity Company Expel Announces $40 Million in Series C Funding

Expel, the leader in making customers smile when they hear the term “managed security,”  announced today that the company secured $40 Million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Battery Ventures, Greycroft, NEA, Paladin Capital Group and Scale Venture Partners. Shardul Shah, partner at Index Ventures will join Expel’s board of directors. To date, Expel has secured a combined total of $67.5 Million in funding.

Cybersecurity Startup GreyNoise Secures Seed Funding to Reduce Internet Background Noise

GreyNoise Intelligence, founded by Andrew Morris, today announced that the company has completed a $600K seed financing. GreyNoise identifies Internet background noise caused by benign sources that inflate the volume of security alerts that security operations teams need to analyze.  Consisting largely of false positives, filtering this background noise out allows security teams to streamline and prioritize threat analysis.

SCYTHE Secures $3 Million in Initial Financing Round Led by Gula Tech Adventures

Top tech leaders invest in company delivering industry’s first real-world attack simulation capabilities for enterprise red and blue teams. ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SCYTHE Inc., provider of the most advanced attack simulation platform on the market, today announced that the company has raised $3 million in an initial funding round led by cybersecurity industry veteran and co-founder of Tenable, Ron […]

Secure Application Development Company Secure Code Warrior Raises $3.5M

Funding from Paladin Capital Group and AirTree Ventures enables rapid expansion of North American and global operations SYDNEY, LONDON, BRUGES, BOSTON: 12 September 2018 – Secure application development platform provider Secure Code Warrior announced today that it has gained US$3.5 million in funding from two strategic venture capital firms.  The financing was led by Washington […]

New Security Startup Expel Secures $7.5 Million Series A Financing

Expel, Inc., a new cyber security company founded by prominent industry veterans, announced it closed $7.5 million in Series A funding from experienced security investors. The financing was led by Paladin Capital Group, with participation from New Enterprise Associates, Battery Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Lightbank, and other strategic and individual investors. Expel is founded by senior executives previously at FireEye and Mandiant.

PhishMe Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies; Identified as a Top 10 Security Company

PhishMe® Inc., the leading provider of phishing threat management solutions that empower employees to be a layer of human security sensors against phishing, malware, and drive-by attacks, today announced that Inc. Magazine has named it one of the 2015 Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the U.S. PhishMe ranked in the 89th percentile of all companies evaluated. Among security companies, it ranked in the top 10 nationwide and No. 2 in the State of Virginia.

PhishMe Reports Third Consecutive Year of Extraordinary Growth

PhishMe Inc., creator of the industry-leading phishing mitigation and detection platform, today reported extraordinary corporate performance for the 2013 fiscal year. Bookings grew 130% over the previous year and the company achieved significant increases across all key corporate performance measures, including the largest fourth quarter in company history.

Paladin Capital Group Marks Another Successful Exit in Sale of Unitrends

Unitrends, the leading provider of all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that it has received a major growth equity investment from Insight Venture Partners, a leading global private equity and venture capital firm. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.