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The Westbase Group has acquired a 51% share of Wireless Coverage Ltd, the company behind advanced wireless modelling system, WISDM. The investment brings next generation wireless network planning to the Group's solution range and customers. Wireless Coverage's WISDM platform supports fixed wireless access and 5G network modelling.
The platform helps organizations save valuable time on implementation and upkeep while reducing audit costs by as much as 60%. To meet rapidly accelerating demand, the funding will be primarily used to scale operations and product development, and for geographic expansion into untapped markets across Europe and Asia. "We've built the industry's first fully-cloud-native and configurable Identity Governance platform, empowering organizations to secure identities, protect against data breaches, and meet security and compliance needs," said Tippu Gagguturu, co-founder and CEO of SecurEnds.
Founded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing AI technology to audit and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. "Decentralized finance has grown enormously over the last 18 months, giving millions of people access to innovative financial tools and savings products. With such rapid innovation, security is of the utmost importance," said Kai Jiang, a partner at Coatue Management, L.L.C. "We are excited to participate in this funding round and look forward to seeing CertiK strengthen its position as a leader in blockchain security."
On June 9, 2021, the III annual international online training event Cyber Polygon took place. 200 organizations from 48 countries tested their skills in repelling cyber threats as part of Cyber Polygon 2021.
"For businesses around the world and across all industries, cloud transformation is one of their most important technology initiatives and closing the growing cloud skills gap is their single biggest challenge in meeting it. As the leader in technology skill development for large enterprises around the world, we are determined to be their trusted partner to solve it," said Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight. "With our acquisition of A Cloud Guru, we are now positioned to deliver the most comprehensive solution for driving cloud maturity at scale through an all-in-one solution for cloud skill development."
Axonius launched a new business unit focused on innovation and growth avenues beyond the existing core solution already used by hundreds of companies worldwide. After doubling its staff during the pandemic and achieving triple-digit annual recurring revenue growth in 2020, Axonius continues its rapid-growth trajectory, expanding globally and maintaining its commitment to product innovation.
SmartBear has released a new plug-in for SwaggerHub API design to support IntelliJ IDEA, the popular Java-based integrated developer environment. API developers familiar with IntelliJ IDEA now have ready access to the OpenAPI compliant SwaggerHub API design platform to create, organize, and document APIs.
Software industry veteran Adrian Szwarcburg has joined DigitSec, provider of the AppSec testing platform purpose-built for Salesforce, as senior vice president of business development. "They offer the first solution to fully address the major Salesforce DevOps challenge today, reducing false positives during security testing. DigitSec allows developers to focus on faster and more secure development by automating and integrating multiple security tests and eliminating many tedious manual processes and delays while enhancing security."
Premier technology growth equity investor Full In Partners announced that it has led a significant follow-on investment in existing portfolio company, AutoRABIT. The leading provider of Salesforce release management platform for regulated industries, AutoRABIT is trusted by top development organizations at Anthem, Wells Fargo, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Intuit, and many others. The $14.5M in new funding is a combination of equity from Full In and debt from Bridge Bank and comes on the heels of a transformative year for AutoRABIT. The company recently acquired CodeScan, a premier player in code quality, compliance and security analysis for the Salesforce developer community and is seeing net new ARR growth of upwards of 100% from 2020.
The new funds will accelerate development of the Cortex platform, which enables engineering leaders and site reliability engineers to move beyond manual processes to gain visibility and control of rapidly expanding microservices. "But microservices proliferation has side effects: engineering and SRE leaders are challenged to track what services exist, how they depend on one another and what their quality is. The Cortex platform puts all that information at their fingertips, and makes it easy to launch team-wide initiatives to improve service quality."