Led · Equity · Mar 2025

Cybereason provides attack protection through its award-winning endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology alongside industry-recognized consulting services that support organizations across the incident lifecycle. The company offers managed services and expert-led consulting to help customers harden, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. Cybereason is privately held and headquartered in California, with customers in more than 40 countries. The business emphasizes its elite experts and technology to remain a trusted cybersecurity partner for enterprises worldwide. Recent funding is intended to advance the company’s global growth and reinforce its commitment to exceptional customer service. Cybereason also plans to expand a strategic relationship with Trustwave as part of its go-forward approach to managed security services. Cybereason offers the AI-driven Cybereason Defense Platform that provides predictive prevention, detection, and response against modern ransomware and advanced attack techniques. Its MalOp™ capability instantly delivers context-rich attack intelligence across every affected device, user, and system. The company partners with defenders to stop attacks at the endpoint, in the cloud, and across the enterprise ecosystem. Cybereason has customers in more than 40 countries. The company raised $100M in funding and said it will use the proceeds to grow and advance innovation in its XDR, EDR, and EPP solutions. Cybereason also announced that Eric Gan will serve as its new CEO, subject to board confirmation and customary regulatory approvals, while current CEO and co-founder Lior Div will transition to an advisor role. Cybereason offers an AI-powered, operation-centric Defense Platform that exposes and remediates entire malicious operations and tells the full attack story from root cause to impacted users and devices. The firm says this approach significantly reduces the time to investigate and recover from enterprisewide cyberattacks. Cybereason ended 2020 with over $120 million in annual recurring revenue, and attributes recent growth to its AI-driven technology. The company expanded its channel presence with a Defenders League program enabling partners to deploy its technology and services. Management says the $275 million will be used to fuel 'hypergrowth' driven by strong market demand and to accelerate go-to-market efforts in the federal sector. The company has positioned the round as likely its last before going public, and the raise was estimated in reporting to imply a valuation near $3 billion. Cybereason provides an endpoint detection and response platform that uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across distributed resources. Its technology processes and analyzes data in real time across an organization’s operations, flagging anomalous behavior across network nodes and surfacing root cause, timelines, actors, tools and data flows. The company also offers reporting tools to inform customers about breaches and support investigation and remediation. Over the last two years it has expanded to a network that spans 6 million endpoints and employs about 500 people, with offices in Boston, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and London. Cybereason intends to use new funding to accelerate sales and marketing globally and to push research and development toward more autonomous security operations. The company has been publicly credited with discovering large-scale attacks such as Operation SoftCell and other nation-state intrusions. Cybereason provides automated SaaS-based endpoint detection and response, next-generation antivirus, and managed monitoring services. Its platform uses a custom-built in-memory graph to detect behavioral patterns across every endpoint and surface malicious operations in a user-friendly interface. The company says its solutions have protected hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies from highly advanced attacks, including the global WannaCry ransomware attack. Cybereason will use the $100M Series D funding from SoftBank to expand growth through new distribution channels and to develop new technologies. Following the Series D the company has raised $189M in total from SoftBank and other investors such as CRV, Spark Capital and Lockheed Martin. Co-founded in 2012 by Yonatan Striem-Amit, Lior Div and Yossi Naar, the company is based in Boston and also has offices in London, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

Led · Series E · Nov 2023

BlueVoyant is a cloud-native, outcomes-based cybersecurity company that combines internal and external defense capabilities into a single offering. It continuously monitors networks, endpoints, attack surfaces, supply chains, and the clear, deep, and dark web for threats, leveraging machine-learning-driven automation alongside human expertise. The company serves more than 900 clients globally and is led by CEO James Rosenthal. BlueVoyant raised over $140M in a Series E and plans to use the proceeds to expand operations and its business reach. It recently acquired Conquest Cyber and is integrating Conquest’s SaaS ARMED ATK™ platform with its internal and external defense solutions to create a comprehensive cyber risk management platform. The acquisition brings Conquest’s focus on protecting critical infrastructure sectors — including the defense industrial base and state, local, and federal government — to BlueVoyant’s offerings. BlueVoyant provides a mix of proprietary technology, third-party best-in-class tools, and professional services to manage both internal and external cyber risks for enterprises. Its internal offering includes managed detection and response (MDR) toolsets and integrations with Microsoft apps, Splunk, and endpoint protections. Externally the company offers real-time supply-chain and domain monitoring that detects malicious activity affecting partner organizations and enables alerting and remediation. A professional services team complements the automated tooling to implement and operationalize defenses for customers. BlueVoyant has around 500 customers across roughly 16 industries and reports customer growth of 80%. The company plans to use the $250M to continue developing technology, expand its team, and enter new markets beyond the 50 countries where it is active today, adding two countries each quarter. BlueVoyant is a New York–based, expert-driven cybersecurity services company led by co-founder and CEO Jim Rosenthal. It offers three lines of business: Managed Security Services for 24/7 detection and response; Third-Party Cyber Risk Services for supply chain and investment portfolio defense; and Cyber Defense Services including incident response, defense assessment, brand protection and threat intelligence. The company says it enables businesses to operationalize ecosystem-scale cybersecurity effectively and efficiently. Since its inception in July 2017, BlueVoyant has expanded to more than 300 clients across four continents and 16 industries, including financial and business services, manufacturing, municipal government, healthcare and pharmaceutical, energy and utilities, and education. On July 17, 2020, it closed a $68M third funding round led by Temasek, bringing total funding to $275M to date. BlueVoyant intends to use the proceeds to accelerate growth across its three core business lines. BlueVoyant is a New York–based enterprise cybersecurity company offering managed security, professional services and threat intelligence. It builds some of its own IP and integrates software from major security partners while emphasizing implementation and operations. The company targets both small and medium enterprises—providing enterprise-grade services—and larger firms that need supplemental security expertise. Since launching managed services in 2018, BlueVoyant has acquired roughly 150 customers across financial services, manufacturing, municipal government and education. It operates in the U.S., Israel, the U.K., Spain and the Philippines. Financially, it raised an $82.5M Series B at a valuation in excess of $430M and has raised $207.5M in total to date.

Led · Equity · Jan 2022

Satellogic develops and operates commercial satellites and space systems. The company plans to expand its U.S. strategy, pursue the National Security market, and explore global Space Systems opportunities. It secured $30 million from Tether Investments to support planned growth in 2024. The financing is structured as secured convertible notes bearing a floating interest rate of SOFR plus 6.50%, with a potential 4.0% increase in certain default scenarios. The notes are backed by substantial assets of the company and its subsidiaries, including intellectual property, and convert into Class A ordinary shares at $1.20 per share subject to CFIUS approval and standard anti-dilution adjustments. The transaction includes covenants restricting additional debt, asset sales, and dividends, grants Tether pre-emptive rights and registration rights, and was completed as a private placement exempt from Securities Act registration. A filed Form 8-K states that Liberty Strategic Capital, associated with Secretary Steven Mnuchin, will invest $150 million in Satellogic and CF Acquisition Corp. V. The filing identifies the SPAC as CF Acquisition Corp. V (Nasdaq: CFV). The provided article text does not describe Satellogic’s products, core operations, future plans, or operating metrics. The article also does not disclose the financing instrument(s) or detailed terms of the investment beyond the $150 million amount. The Form 8-K and the named investor (Liberty Strategic Capital) are the primary disclosures in the text. Satellogic develops and operates Earth-observation satellites equipped with multispectral and hyperspectral cameras, offering 1-meter multispectral and 30-meter hyperspectral imaging. The company currently operates eight spacecraft in orbit and is adding two NewSat Mark IV satellites launching Jan. 15 on a Long March 2D rocket. Its product offering combines imagery with analytics and insights derived from satellite data. Satellogic plans to launch 80 or more satellites over the next two years and already has contracts in place to support that buildout. To support growth it is expanding its assembly and test facility in Uruguay. The company was founded in 2010 and recently closed $50 million in new funding to help fuel continued expansion. Satellogic builds affordable, high‑resolution imaging micro‑satellites capable of capturing 1‑meter‑resolution photos of Earth. Its platform also delivers hyperspectral imaging from orbit with 30‑meter spatial resolution. Hyperspectral data can be used for mineral and oil prospecting, forestry monitoring, weather forecasting, and climate‑change monitoring. The company launched its sixth micro‑satellite on June 15 aboard a Long March‑4B rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Founded in 2010, Satellogic competes with larger constellations by focusing on lower‑cost smallsats and hyperspectral capability. The company raised $27M in a Series B led by Tencent. Satellogic develops small imaging satellites equipped for high-resolution Earth observation; its third successful launch, Tita, was the first with high-resolution imaging capability. The company says its satellites are roughly the size of a desktop hard drive and built with newer electronics to enable much faster revisit times. Satellogic claims customers could get repeat images in about five minutes versus roughly three days with existing systems. Management plans to "freeze" the satellite design soon and accelerate deployments, targeting 10–15 launches on the 2015 timeline and ultimately a network of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit. The company positions its imagery for monitoring food production and security, energy production and distribution, and natural resource production. Financially, Satellogic has raised $4.5 million from CEO Emiliano Kargieman and undisclosed angel investors.

Led · Series E · Nov 2021

Contrast Security builds an Application Security Platform that instruments software to remove security roadblock inefficiencies and enable developers to write and release secure application code faster. The platform embeds code analysis and attack prevention directly into applications, automatically detecting vulnerabilities as developers write code, eliminating false positives, and providing context-specific how-to-fix guidance. Led by CEO Alan Naumann and based in Los Altos, Calif., Contrast partners with AWS, IBM, Google, Microsoft and VMware and counts tens of thousands of developers at large enterprises (including BMW, DocuSign, AXA, Zurich, SOMPO Japan and the American Red Cross) among its users. The company reports rapid customer adoption in APAC and growth in EMEA. Contrast plans to use new funding to expand its business reach further and to pursue strategic opportunities and acquisitions. Contrast Security provides technology that embeds vulnerability analysis and exploit prevention directly into modern software, offering continuous protection across development, operations, and production. Its unified platform includes flagship products Contrast Assess and Contrast Protect, and uses patented deep security sensors that operate inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities and prevent data breaches. In 2018 the company discovered over 1,900,000 vulnerabilities and protected against more than 52,000,000 confirmed application attacks across billions of transactions. Contrast recently launched Community Edition, a free full-strength DevSecOps solution to help small teams building Java applications and APIs defend against common security flaws including the OWASP Top 10. The company intends to use new funding to accelerate technology innovation, expand field operations and international reach, and grow its customer-success team. Led by CEO Alan Naumann and based in Los Altos, California, Contrast has raised $122M to date following the Series D. Contrast Security provides application security technology that enables software to protect itself against cyberattacks. Led by CEO and board chairman Alan Naumann, the company offers patented deep security instrumentation, including products Contrast Assess and Contrast Protect. Those products operate continuously across popular development methodologies and deployment environments — Agile, waterfall, DevOps, cloud, containers and hybrid — to enable accurate assessment and always-on protection without scanning or expensive security experts. The company intends to use recent funding to accelerate technology innovation and pursue global expansion. It also plans to grow its customer-success team to support adoption and deployment. Contrast has raised a total of $54m to date. Contrast Security provides an application security platform that inserts an intelligent software agent directly into application code. The agent distributes thousands of smart sensors that enable applications to self-protect by detecting vulnerabilities and blocking attacks from within. The platform is designed to deliver accurate analysis and protection of an entire application portfolio without scanning or relying on expensive security experts. Led by CEO Alan Naumann and based in Palo Alto, the company intends to use new funding to expand operations and accelerate its capacity to develop, market, sell and deploy its technology. The article reports a $16M Series B financing as the company's current financing event. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.