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Cloud security startup Wiz on Wednesday emerged from stealth mode with $100 million in Series A funding. The money came from Index Ventures, Sequoia, Insight Partners and Cyberstarts, and Wiz says it plans on using it to scale and meet customer demand for its cloud security solutions.
API security platform provider Salt Security announced on Tuesday that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors Tenaya Capital, S Capital VC, and Y Combinator. Founded in 2016 by Michael Nicosia, and Roey Eliyahu, Salt Security has developed an API Protection Platform that uses big data and artificial intelligence to find and monitor APIs.
Threat intelligence provider EclecticIQ on Tuesday announced that it has closed a €20 million Series C financing round, which brings the total raised by the company to €47 million. With the new financing, the company hopes to drive further innovation of its threat intelligence platform with the addition of new use cases, helping customers increase situational awareness and adopt an intelligence-led cybersecurity approach.
Lucidum launched with $4 million in seed funding from GGV Capital and Silicon Valley CISO Investments. Lucidum is founded by former security and technology leaders at Splunk and backed by nearly two dozen current or former security and technology leaders to solve the ubiquitous and fundamental challenge of asset discovery and visibility that's preventing enterprises from efficiently managing, securing, and transforming technology.
San Jose, California-based asset discovery company Lucidum emerged from stealth mode on Friday with $4 million in seed funding. Lucidum has developed a platform that leverages machine learning to analyze data from nearly 100 existing tools and platforms in an effort to provide visibility into computers, mobile and IoT devices, cloud environments, and microservices.
Security operations company Arctic Wolf on Thursday announced the closing of a $200 million Series E funding round that values it at $1.3 billion. Following the new funding round, Arctic Wolf plans to move headquarters to Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where it already has over 200 employees.
DevSecOps and risk management solutions provider apiiro on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode with $35 million in funding. The company aims to integrate security into design and development, to "Reinvent secure development lifecycle."
Network security company Illusive Networks this week announced that it has raised $24 million in a Series B1 funding round. Illusive Networks offers solutions designed to help organizations prevent and detect attacks, and respond to incidents.
Onapsis, a Boston-based company that provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions for mission-critical applications, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $55 million in a Series D funding round. The company on Tuesday also announced support for Salesforce and SuccessFactors, and that it has launched an early access program for the Onapsis Platform for Salesforce and the Onapsis Platform for SuccessFactors.
The Tor Project, the research-education nonprofit organization that maintains software for the Tor anonymity network, has announced a membership program to secure funding that will allow them to "Be more agile" when it comes to software development. "Because we are a software development organization, relying only on grant funding, forces us into a development model that is slow and archaic. We can never execute solutions immediately in an agile way or experiment quickly with possible paths. We want to change that so we can respond to issues and start projects faster. And we can do that by increasing the number and amount of unrestricted contributions to the Tor Project."