Cyberthreat intelligence provider VulnCheck Inc. today announced that it has closed its seed round with $7.95 million in funding, including an additional $4.75 million in funding on top of its original raise of $3.2 million in February. Founded in 2021, VulnCheck offers a cyberthreat intelligence platform that provides exploit and vulnerability intelligence directly into the tools, ...

Uber Technologies Inc.- and Nvidia Corp.-backed sidewalk delivery robots company Serve Robotics Inc. made its debut on the Nasdaq today, and unfortunately for investors, it wasn’t a great debut as shares in the company closed down more than 22% from the $4-per-share listing price on its first day of trading. Previously known as Postmates X, ...

Israeli cloud security firm Wiz Inc. is reportedly in talks to acquire rival cloud security startup Lacework Inc. for about $150 million to $200 million, far lower than the valuation of $8.3 billion the company had as of its last funding round. Who broke the story is less clear than the basic facts, with TechCrunch, The Information and Calcalist ...

Red Hat Inc. today announced updates to its Trusted Software Supply Chain that enable organizations to shift security “left” in the software supply chain to help organizations detect vulnerabilities earlier. Red Hat announced Trusted Software Supply Chain in May 2023, pitching it as a way to address the rising threat of software supply chain attacks. ...

Real-time event and risk detection company Dataminr Inc. today announced the launch of a new generative artificial intelligence service that automatically regenerates text descriptions as events unfold. Called ReGenAI, the new service uses predictive AI to analyze and synthesize key developments detected in more than 1 million public data sources, distilling what the Dataminr calls  “multidimensional events” ...

Identity threat detection and response startup Permiso Security Inc. today announced the launch of Cloud Console Cartographer, an open-source tool that helps security teams make sense of console-driven event activity in their Amazon Web Services Inc. logs. The new tool maps noisy log activity into highly consolidated, succinct events to help security practitioners quickly cut through the ...

Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled Hypershield, a new security framework to bolster data centers and cloud infrastructure in light of the challenges posed by artificial intelligence. The new Cisco Hypsershield is designed to protect applications, devices and data across various environments, including public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations. The service includes AI integration ...

Application programming interface security startup Vorlon Inc. today announced that it has raised $15.7 million in new funding to further its efforts to help chief information security officers and their teams secure third-party APIs. Founded in 2022, Vorlon offers a comprehensive third-party API security platform that helps organizations proactively secure the third-party APIs used by their ...

German e-commerce tools company commercetools GmbH made several announcements at its inaugural Elevate conference today, including a new extended partnership with PayPal Holdings Inc., a new offering for manufacturing and the launch of a new community platform. The extended partnership between commercetools and PayPal includes the integration of a new feature called Fastlane by PayPal. First ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Miggo Security today announced it raised $7.5 million in seed funding to enhance its application detection response platform. Founded in 2022, Miggo offers an ADR platform that has been designed to address a critical gap in application security by enabling security teams to detect and respond to targeted application attacks in real ...