Osage University has contributed to a $9.2m series A round for Corelight, a cybersecurity company co-founded by UC Berkeley professor Vern Paxson.

Corelight, a US-based cybersecurity company based on University of California, Berkeley research, closed a $9.2m series A round yesterday that featured spinout-focused investment firm Osage University Partners.

The round was led by Accel Partners and included angel investor Steve McCanne.

Corelight has developed cybersecurity technology that enables companies to detect, stop and remediate attacks by offering a wide-ranging, real-time understanding of traffic on the network.

The technology is based on research by Vern Paxson, professor of computer science at Berkeley,…