The investment round was led by Accomplice, with participation from Joule Ventures, OurCrowd, Trust Ventures, Ulysses, and several angel investors. Founded in December 2021, the New York-based company provides a biometric security and privacy application for protecting digital accounts across banking, email, investing, and healthcare services. IronVest says its solution takes a decentralized approach to…

The new investment round was led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from Cloud Apps Capital, Felicis Ventures, Next47, Operator Collective, Sixty Degree Capital, and Thomson Reuters Ventures. Founded in 2018, the San Francisco-based firm provides a data privacy solution that creates an automated map of all business systems within an organization, to provide visibility…

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) specialist provider Malwarebytes has launched a new managed detection and response (MDR) solution to bring threat and incident detection to the SMB market. SMBs are heavily targeted by malicious actors because they are often considered to be the soft underbelly of opportunity. The MDR solution combines the security firm’s EDR…

The funding round – which included $3.5 million Seed and $11.5 million Series A investments – was co-led by .406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners (EIP). Founded in 2019, the Boston-based firm provides enterprises with an identity-centric platform that offers visibility and control over the identity attack surface, helping them secure both employees and contractors…

Founded in 2017, the Pasadena, California-based firm provides organizations with privacy, cybersecurity, and optimization solutions for PC, Mac, and mobile devices. The firm offers software and services tailored for consumers and small businesses and has a global presence in 33 countries, claiming to have more than one million customers. Additionally, RealDefense offers an M&A playbook…

Fortifying cybersecurity defenses remains a work in progress for many organizations, who acknowledge their shortcomings but have yet to commit the necessary resources to the effort, new research from CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, reveals. “Risk mitigation is the key, the filter through which everything should be viewed.”…