Tag: funding round
Hakimo secures $10.5M in funding, launches AI Operator
March 27, 2025SSN Staff
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Eying surging crime rates, security staffing shortages, and false alarms, Hakimo has announced a $10.5 million funding round and the launch of AI Operator.
AI Operator is an autonomous security agent that monitors existing security hardware, detects threats in real time, and executes response protocols just like a human security professional.
The Series A funding round was led by Vertex Ventures and Zigg Capital with participation from RXR Arden Digital Ventures and...
Verkada raises $200M in funding
February 19, 2025SSN Staff
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Verkada today announced a $200 million Series E funding round, led by General Catalyst, with significant investment from Eclipse and additional participation from new and existing investors.
Since its founding in 2016, Verkada has raised more than $700 million in funding, and the latest round values the company at $4.5 billion.
The company wrote that machine learning and applied computer vision have been core to Verkada's offering from the beginning, and that it...
Nexusflow AI company raises $10.6 million seed funding
September 30, 2023SSN Staff
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Nexusflow, a Generative AI leader targeting the cybersecurity industry, announced That it’s raised a $10.6 million seed round led by Point72 Ventures, with participation from Fusion Fund and several AI luminaries in Silicon Valley.
The company was founded by AI experts Professor Jiantao Jiao and Professor Kurt Keutzer from the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, along with industry AI leader Jian Zhang. Zhang received his Ph.D. from the Stanford AI Lab and served as...
Defendify talks rebrand and updates to website and app
September 28, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
PORTLAND, Maine – Cybersecurity platform Defendify has followed up on its recent funding round and user base expansion with a redesign of their website as well as updates to their app for improved ease of use for customers.
Touted as an all-in-one cybersecurity solution, the Defendify platform streamlines cybersecurity assessments, training, detection, policies and testing into a single SaaS solution that can fit an organization’s needs, even those with small IT teams. The redesign...
FreightWatch raises $10m
July 26, 2010SSN Staff
AUSTIN, Texas—With an eye toward developing new technology and possible M&A activity, logistics security firm FreightWatch International announced this month a $10 million capital raise led by Bridge Investments, with help from Egis Capital and the Kroll family.
This is the first equity raise in the company's 12 years, said CEO Barry Conlon, and though it remains difficult to raise funds in this economy, "we see cargo theft really on the rise. We're seeing a demand and more and more requests...