The cybersecurity software developer was valued at $800m in a Heritage Group-backed round that took its overall funding to over $150m.
US-headquartered cybersecurity software provider CyCognito received $100m in funding from investors including diversified conglomerate The Heritage Group yesterday at a valuation of $800m.
Venture capital fund Westly Group led the round, which also featured Thomvest Ventures, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, UpWest and Sorenson Ventures, increasing the company’s overall funding to $153m.
Founded in 2017, CyCognito has built a platform which proactively finds vulnerabilities in companies’ IT infrastructure with the aim of plugging them before they can be exploited by malevolent…
Fernando Moncada Rivera
Fernando Moncada Rivera is a reporter at Global Corporate Venturing and also host of the CVC Unplugged podcast.
