Record Unicorns, SCYTHE Series A, SPAC Fails, McAfee Worth $14B, & Hashicorp IPO – ESW #250
In the Enterprise Security News for this week: Drata reaches unicorn status in record time with a $100m Series B, SCYTHE announces a $10m Series A, McAfee Consumer business acquired for $14b, WPScan acquired by Automattic (the company behind WordPress), QOMPLX SPAC is called off, HashiCorp IPO is not called off, open source CSPM and firmware emulation tools, Ghost kitchens and more.
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Adrian Sanabria
Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative
- 1. FUNDING: Drata Reaches Unicorn Status with $100M in Series B Funding
- 2. FUNDING: SCYTHE Announces $10 Million Series A Investment to Support Expansion of Enterprise-Level Cybersecurity
- 3. ACQUISITIONS: McAfee to Be Acquired by an Investor Group for over $14 Billion
- 4. ACQUISITIONS: DomainTools and Farsight Security Join Forces to Deliver Best-in-class Threat In
- 5. ACQUISITIONS: WPScan Acquired by Automattic – WPScan WordPress Security
- 6. ACQUISITIONS: SPAC Tailwind Acquisition, QOMPLX call off $1.4 billion merger, citing ‘market conditions’
- 7. IPO: HashiCorp Files for U.S. IPO, Said to Seek $10 Billion Valuation
- 8. TOOLS: Netflix’s ConsoleMe – soon to be a commercial product!
- 9. TOOLS: Firmadyne: run embedded linux firmware in a VM!
- 10. REGULATIONS: Despite Abuses of NSO Spyware, Israel Will Lobby U.S. to Defend It
- 11. SQUIRREL: The Mysterious Case of the F*cking Good Pizza
Tyler Shields
VP Traceable.ai, Cyber Angel Investor and Advisor at 90 Degree Ventures
