Microsoft and Axa both returned for the cybersecurity technology provider’s latest round, taking its overall funding to $272m.

US-based cybersecurity technology provider Contrast Security has secured $150m in series E funding from investors including diversified software producer Microsoft and insurance provider Axa, through M12 and Axa Venture Partners respectively.

Liberty Strategic Capital led the round, which included fellow private equity firm Warburg Pincus and venture capital firms Acero Capital, Battery Ventures and General Catalyst. It boosted the company’s total funding to approximately $272m.

Contrast Security has created a software platform that embeds code analysis functionality to alert developers…

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Fernando Moncada Rivera is a reporter at Global Corporate Venturing and also host of the CVC Unplugged podcast.