| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.07.2024 | Heeler: Application Security Company Raises $8.5 Million In Seed Funding | Application security company Heeler Security announced today the successful closing of an $8.5 million Seed Series funding round, led by Norwest Venture Partners with significant participation from Storm Ventures.
The growing challenges of ... |
| 10.07.2024 | Ario: AI-Based Assistant For Parents Secures $16 Million In Seed Funding | Ario, an AI-powered assistant for parents, announced $16 million in seed funding from top-tier investors, including Wing Venture Capital, Floodgate, Bain Capital Ventures, Moxxie, and prominent angels.
Parents often spend hours per week man... |
| 28.06.2021 | F5 : Industry accolades for F5's Shape Security point to technology, scale, and results | Last week, F5 Shape Enterprise Defense (SED) brought home a win in the annual AI Breakthrough Awards-earning the nod for Best AI-based Solution for CyberSecurity and adding to the growing body of industry validation for our approach to fric... |
| 20.04.2021 | F5 NETWORKS, INC.
F5 : Secure Your Apps and APIs. Everywhere. | Every organization wants the same thing from their applications: the best performance for their users and exceptional security to prevent losses and harm. It's a simple concept, but delivering comprehensive security that doesn't slow the sp... |
| 10.03.2021 | For Telcos, There’s An Inherent Cybersecurity Risk In Just Doing Business | VP Shape Intelligence Center at Shape Security. |
| 22.02.2021 | F5 : Frictionless Future | Digital Customer Experience is a Competitive Differentiator, Now More than Ever
Across every industry, the customer's digital experience is proving to be a competitive differentiator and a business disruptor. In the Financial Services secto... |
| 22.02.2021 | F5 NETWORKS, INC.
F5 : Frictionless Future | Digital Customer Experience is a Competitive Differentiator, Now More than Ever
Across every industry, the customer's digital experience is proving to be a competitive differentiator and a business disruptor. In the Financial Services secto... |
| 11.02.2020 | AI, automation, and the cybersecurity skills gap | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: AI and Security.
The cybersecurity skills shortage is well documented, but the gap seems to be widening. The 2019 Cybersecurity Workforce study produced by nonprofit (IS... |
| 11.02.2020 | AI, automation, and the cybersecurity skills gap | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The cybersecurity skills shortage is well documen... |
| 16.01.2020 | Sierra Ventures Year in Review – 2019
A Recap of 2019
Sierra Ventures Year in Review | A Recap of 2019 Sierra Ventures Year in Review
2019 was a big year for Sierra Ventures with the raise of our 12th Fund ($215M). We made 8 exciting new investments in Sierra XI and are looking forward to investing out of Sierra XII in the co... |
| 20.12.2019 | F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B | F5 got an expensive holiday present today, snagging startup Shape Security for approximately $1 billion.
What the networking company gets with a shiny red ribbon is a security product that helps stop automated attacks like credential stuffi... |
| 18.12.2019 | #ANGELS founding partner raises $25M for debut fund Moxxie Ventures | Katie Jacobs Stanton, a former Twitter executive and co-founder of the #ANGELS investment collective, has raised $25 million for her debut venture capital fund Moxxie Ventures.
As the sole general partner, she plans to invest between $250,0... |
| 29.11.2019 | How credential stuffing attacks work, and how to prevent them | Image: peshkov, Getty Images/iStockphoto
There’s no shortage of threats on the internet, which puts end users at risk and keeps cybersecurity and IT professionals busy. Credential stuffing is a such risk that can pose a great danger to cons... |
| 16.09.2019 | Shape Security: $51 Million In Funding And $1 Billion Valuation | Bot and online fraud mitigation company Shape Security announced it has raised $51 million in funding led by C5 Capital
Shape Security — a leading platform for bot and online fraud mitigation for the world’s largest companies — announced it... |
| 13.09.2019 | Cybersecurity startup Shape Security secures $51 million in growth funding at $1 billion valuation | Today, many organizations take a reactive measures to protect their critical assets and prevent themselves against cybersecurity threats. The threat factors have to be analyzed, identified as malicious and ultimately blocked. Enter Shape Se... |
| 13.09.2019 | Shape Security Raises $51M at $1B Valuation | Shape Security, a Santa Clara, CA ― based maker of a platform for bot and online fraud mitigation for large companies, raised $51m in growth funding.
The round, which brought the pre-money valuation to $1 billion, was led by C5 Capital with... |
| 13.09.2019 | Shape Security raises $51M in funding to expand fraud protection overseas | C5 Capital said it led a funding round of $51 million for Shape Security, a platform for bot and fraud mitigation, bringing the company's valuation to $1 billion.
Shape Security, based in Mountain View, California, provides online fraud pro... |
| 12.09.2019 | Shape Security hits $1B valuation with $51M Series F | Anti-fraud startup Shape Security has tipped over the $1 billion valuation mark following its latest Series F round of $51 million.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced the fundraise Thursday, bringing the total amount of outsi... |
| 12.09.2019 | Shape Security eyes IPO after raising $51 million at $1 billion valuation | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Shape Security, a cybersecurity startup that helps businesses prevent fraudulent use of their online systems, has raised $51 million in... |
| 12.09.2019 | Shape Security Announces $51M Growth Round |
SANTA CLARA, CA, Shape Security today announced that it has raised $51 million in growth funding.
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| 12.09.2019 | Shape Security eyes IPO after raising $51 million at $1 billion valuation | Shape Security, a cybersecurity startup that helps businesses prevent fraudulent use of their online systems, has raised $51 million in a round of funding led by C5 Capital, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, HPE Growth, Norwest Ventu... |
| 20.06.2019 | Interview with Shuman Ghosemajumder, CTO of Shape Security | A look into business security, data breaches, and the inspiration behind the company
In 2019, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone that hasn't had their data stolen. While most of us are aware of this, even those among us that think their ... |
| 07.05.2019 | Enterprise security solution Shape Security expands to smaller businesses | The service can help with fraud, bot traffic, and even improve your website's performance
With our increasingly online world, scams have gone from fake money and physical theft to online fraud and bot traffic to hurt an online business.
Ent... |
| 07.05.2019 | Shape Security’s latest product protects smaller businesses from credential stuffing | Shape Security has been helping big companies stay safe from fraudulent activities like password reuse and bot traffic on their publicly facing websites and apps. The company now wants to help smaller companies have that same type of protec... |
| 17.12.2018 | The beginning of the end for the password, more regulation and more IoT risks -- cybersecurity predictions for 2019 | When we looked at security predictions at this time last year some experts were predicting that we'd see attacks on cryptocurrencies and that we'd continue to see a rise in the scale and profile of attacks.
They've been proved right on both... |
| 05.11.2018 | Shape Security Raises $26 Million To Prevent Attackers From Committing Online Fraud | Shape Security has announced that it has raised $26 million in a round of funding led by Norwest Venture Partners. New strategic investors JetBlue Technology Ventures and Singtel Innov8 participated in this round. And existing investors Kle... |
| 02.11.2018 | Singapore’s Singtel Innov8 backs $26m funding in US-based Shape Security | Premium
Singtel Innov8, the venture capital arm of Singaporean telecom firm Singtel, has backed the $26-million funding in Shape Security, US-based startup that provides security technologies for web and mobile applications, according to a ... |
| 02.11.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, November 2 | PIZZA & ROBOTS
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Zume, the pizza-delivery and food-logistics startup, raised $375 million in funding from Softbank, according to... |
| 02.11.2018 | Shape Security Raises $26M in Funding | Shape Security, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of bot mitigation and anti-automation for the world’s largest companies, closed $26m in funding.
The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $132m, was led by Norwest Ventu... |
| 01.11.2018 | Daily funding roundup - November 1st, 2018 | CognitionX raised $4.1M; Validere raised $7M; Rockset raised $18.5M; Molekule raised $25M
Fluentify: Fluentify connects language learners with carefully selected native speakers around the world trough 30-minutes individual live sessions. F... |
| 01.11.2018 | Shape Security Raises $26M As Cybersecurity Puts More Money In The Bank | 13 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Mountain View-based Shape Security, which helps prevent bot and fraud attacks against major companies such as Wells Fargo, has scored a $26 million round from Norwest Venture Partners. Other investo... |
| 01.11.2018 | Anti-fraud startup Shape Security raises $26M in Series E round to drive global expansion | Shape Security, a fraud-fighting cybersecurity company, has closed a $26 million round of Series E funding.
This will be the fifth round of funding — more than $130 million — since the Mountain View, Calif.-based company was founded in 2011... |
| 18.07.2018 | Credential stuffing costs businesses over $5 billion a year | When usernames and passwords are exposed through a data breach or attack on users, criminals harvest these credentials and test them on a wide range of websites and mobile applications, a practice known as 'credential stuffing'.
A new repor... |
| 07.11.2017 | Shape Security introduces tool to blunt impact of stolen password caches | Shape Security is a company you may never heard of, yet it’s been around for five years and its founders include former Googlers and DoD officials. Their products provide the primary line of defense for applications at some of the top compa... |
| 24.01.2017 | Microsoft Ventures backs Illusive Networks, a cybersecurity firm that protects with deception | Illusive Networks, a cybersecurity startup based out of Israel that protects networks by building “deception” frameworks to identify and trap malicious hackers, is today announcing that it has added Microsoft Ventures — the software giant’s... |
| 18.10.2016 | How is Wikileaks publishing files even after Assange’s Internet was cut? | Cutting the Internet cord on Julian Assange has not silenced the WikiLeaks mastermind, who likely has multiple backup systems in place to ensure his reign of terror on the politically powerful continues long after he loses web access.
Assan... |
| 29.09.2016 | Shape Security Grabs $40M Series D Round |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Shape Security, a provider of security technology for web and mobile applications, has raised $40 million in Series D funding.
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| 29.09.2016 | Shape Security Raises $40M Series D from Google Ventures | Shape Security, a provider of advanced security technology for web and mobile applications, has announced a strategic investment from Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) venture investment and partnership progra... |
| 29.09.2016 | Shape Security Closes $40M Series D Funding | Shape Security, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of advanced security technology for web and mobile applications, closed a $40m Series D round of funding.
Backers included strategic investors Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, the Hewlett Packar... |
| 29.09.2016 | Cybersecurity startup Shape Security closes $40 million round from HPE, GV, Eric Schmidt, others | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Shape Security, a shape-shifting cybersecurity startup that helps websites and apps prevent automated attacks through constantly changi... |
| 29.09.2016 | Cybersecurity startup Shape Security closes $40 million round from HPE, GV, Eric Schmidt, others | Shape Security, a shape-shifting cybersecurity startup that helps websites and apps prevent automated attacks through constantly changing their source code, revealed it has now closed a $40 million funding round, which includes a strategic ... |
| 20.01.2016 | Norwest Raises Third Consecutive $1.2 Billion Fund in Five Years | Norwest Venture Partners, the 55-year-old, Palo Alto, Calif.-based venture firm, has closed its third consecutive $1.2 billion fund. The group, which employs 20 investors altogether, raised the same amount in 2014, as well as in 2010.
If No... |
| 15.01.2016 | New Capital For Anaplan, App Annie, Shape Security | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bay Area companies, back from the holidays, unveiled some substantial fundraising hauls this week.
—Anaplan, a provider of Web-based planning software for businesses, announce... |
| 13.01.2016 | Shape Security Raises $25M in Series D Funding | Shape Security, a Mountain, View, CA-based provider of a solution that protects web and mobile apps, raised $25M in Series D funding.
Backers included Baseline Ventures, Epic Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock, Norwest ... |
| 13.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 13, 2016 | Zerto secured $50M; Syros Pharmaceuticals closed $40M financing; Shape Security raised $25M funding
Bolste, provider of a business collaboration platform, announced today that it is launching its business operating system (BOS) one month af... |
| 20.04.2015 | История Tanium: Как стартапы в сфере кибербезопасности спокойно захватывают рынок Статьи редакции | 2 апреля стартап Tanium, который занимается обеспечением безопасности информации в крупных компаниях, привлёк $52 млн от фонда Adreessen Horovitz, а его оценка достигла $1,75 млрд.
ЦП узнал, как тандему отца и сына удалось завоевать доверие... |
| 23.08.2014 | The Internet of Things will be vulnerable for years, and no one is incentivized to fix it | The Internet is no longer just accessible from your laptop or mobile phone. It’s now part of television sets, baby monitors, ovens and cars. It is increasingly embedded into medical devices and other critical devices. The Internet is everyw... |
| 23.08.2014 | The Internet of Things will be vulnerable for years, and no one is incentivized to fix it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Internet is no longer just accessible from yo... |
| 31.05.2014 | The Five Tough Truths Of Cybersecurity Software | Ted Schlein Contributor
Ted Schlein, a general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focuses on early-stage technology companies in the enterprise software and infrastructure markets, including ventures withi... |
| 21.04.2014 | A brief history of encryption at Google | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As Google explores new ways to protect its user’s... |
| 14.04.2014 | ‘None of the Web companies are doing anything’ to protect you, say security pros | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tech giants are struggling to protect your privac... |
| 25.02.2014 | Fighting malware with malware logic, Shape Security secures $40M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Shape Security adopts one of malware’s key strate... |
| 25.02.2014 | Shape Security Raises $40M in Series C Funding | Shape Security, a Mountain View, CA-based web security startup, raised $40m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) with participation from Sierra Ventures and existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield &am... |
| 25.02.2014 | Ex-Googler-Founded Shape Security Picks Up Another $40M To Build Out Its “Botwall” For Businesses | Shape Security — the enterprise startup that emerged from stealth last month with an enterprise product that fights automated malware and bots by way of a firewall (or ‘botwall’ in its words) that shifts its shape depending on what is tryin... |
| 25.02.2014 | Shape Security Raises $40M in Series C |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Shape Security today revealed it raised $40 million in Series C funding led by Norwest Venture Partners.
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| 10.02.2014 | How the ShapeShifter Botwall Uses Morphing Code to Kill DDoS Attacks | Automation is at the heart of every botnet. This holds true from the most elaborate financial scams to DDoS-powered digital protests. To fight it, the team at Shape Security reasoned, they'd need to create a "botwall" that could d... |
| 21.01.2014 | Startup morphs website code against morphing malware, causing cries of anguish from attackers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Can websites use judo logic to defend themselves,... |
| 01.08.2013 | Techstars Boston Grad Synack Secures $1.5M to Strengthen Crowdsourced Security Network | Security startup Synack announced Thursday they have closed a $1.5 million seed round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Wing Venture Partners, Allegis Capital and Shape Security CEO Derek Smith.
A graduate of ... |
| 07.01.2013 | Funding Daily: Dream the dream | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I saw Les Miserables for the second time over the... |
| 07.01.2013 | Shape Security gets $20M second round while still not revealing its products | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Shape Security raised $20 million today despite n... |
| 07.01.2013 | Shape Security Raises $20M Series B |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Startup developing a new type of web security technology, announced today that it has closed a $20 million Series B financing round led by Venrock.
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| 07.01.2013 | Shape Security Closes $20M Series B Financing | Shape Security, a Mountain View, CA-based developer of an innovative web security technology, has closed a $20m Series B financing.
The round, which brings the total amount raised by the company to $26m, was led by Venrock, with participati... |
| 07.01.2013 | Disruptive Web Security Startup Shape Security Nabs $20M From Venrock, Google Ventures, Kleiner, Eric Schmidt | Shape Security, a company that wants to disrupt web security technology, has raised $20 million in a Series B financing round led by Venrock, with participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Allegis Capital, Google Ventures, Go... |
| 15.11.2012 | BotClouds: How Botnets Now Offer Crime-As-A-Service | Botnets, networks of compromised end-user computers and servers, are hugely sophisticated engines of computation and messaging these days – just like cloud computing. Botnet creators can now sell their criminal and fraudster clientele capab... |
| 02.07.2012 | Stealthy Shape Security Hires Google’s Former Click-Fraud Czar | Super stealthy security startup, Shape Security, has recruited Google’s ex-“click-fraud czar” Shuman Ghosemajumder to its executive team where he’ll be charged with leading the company’s marketing, strategy and partnerships efforts.
Mountai... |
| 02.07.2012 | Shape Security Raises Series A Funding | Shape Security, a Mountain View, CA-based startup developing web security technology, has raised a Series A funding of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, with p... |
| 26.04.2012 | Shape Security Closes $6M Series A |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Funding Round Led By Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Eric Schmidt's TomorrowVentures.
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| 26.04.2012 | Shape Security Closes $6M Series A Financing | Shape Security, a Mountain View, CA-based start-up developing new web security technology, has closed a $6m Series A financing.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s To... |
| 26.04.2012 | Shape Security: Kleiner Perkins & Eric Schmidt Lead $6M Round In Stealth Security Startup | Big corporations have been riddled by security attacks over the past year, and hackers seem to be growing even bolder and more resolute. As a result, market research firm The Radicati Group said that it expects the corporate web security ma... |
| - | How is Wikileaks publishing files even after Assange’s Internet was cut? | Cutting the Internet cord on Julian Assange has not silenced the WikiLeaks mastermind, who likely has multiple backup systems in place to ensure his reign of terror on the politically powerful continues long after he loses web access.
Assan... |
| - | Anti-fraud startup Shape Security raises $26M in Series E round to drive global expansion |
Tech Crunch | Zack Whittaker | November 1, 2018
Shape Security, a fraud-fighting cybersecurity company, has closed a $26 million round of Series E funding.
This will be the fifth round of funding — more than $130 million — since the... |
