Orange and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners both chipped in as the cybersecurity software provider looks to ramp up hiring.

Israel-headquartered cybersecurity software provider Morphisec secured $31m from investors including telecommunications firms Orange and Deutsche Telekom yesterday, the latter through its Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners vehicle.

Venture capital firm JVP led the round, having joined Deutsche Telekom, Orange subsidiary Orange Digital Ventures and power and industrial technology provider General Electric in the company’s $12m series B round in 2018.

Morphisec provides cloud cybersecurity software to protect endpoints and servers, and its technology is based on research from Ben-Gurion University…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.