Advance Venture Partners has led a funding round for cloud security company HyTrust, while existing shareholders Cisco, Intel, Fortinet and VMWare all returning.

US-based cybersecurity technology producer HyTrust closed a $36m series E round on Tuesday led by Advance Venture Partners, the investment arm of media conglomerate Advance Publications.

The round included networking equipment manufacturer Cisco, semiconductor producer Intel, network security provider Fortinet and virtualisation software developer VMWare as well as venture capital firms Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Vanedge Capital and Trident Capital.

HyTrust has built a set of tools that provide real-time, automated security across private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The…