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title: "News from the Forefront: the Latest from Forgepoint Capital - May 2022"
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Welcome Instabug and Surefire Cyber, SentinelOne and Attivo Networks make it official, our SC Awards Finalists, RSAC/Gartner and more

| View in browser With NetDiligence's Cyberrisk Summit this week, and the RSA Conference and Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit around the corner, we're all abuzz with the latest happenings across the industry. Still, the financing and M&A activity continues as we gladly welcomed Instabug and Surefire Cyber to the #ForgepointFamily, and Attivo Networks officially joined SentinelOne. Follow Forgepoint on LinkedIn for updates as we hit the conference circuit and reunite with our companies, advisors and community, including hopefully you. See you soon?!   Financings and M&A. Instabug, a leading mobile monitoring, crash and bug reporting solution for mobile teams, raised a $46M Series B led by Insight Partners with participation by Forgepoint and other investors. View the announcement or read Ernie Bio's blog. Media highlights include coverage by Forbes and TechCrunch.  Surefire Cyber, which delivers swift, strong response to cyber incidents such as ransomware and helps clients fortify their cyber resilience, launched with $10M in Series A funding from Forgepoint following a successful incubation within our firm. View the announcement, Forgepoint's press release, or Andrew McClure's blog (watch intro video!).   SentinelOne (NYSE: S) officially completed its acquisition of Attivo Networks. View the press release, Will Lin's blog on Why We Invested, or our Executive Spotlight on Attivo Networks CEO Tushar Kothari.  Latest Headlines. Congratulations to all 2022 SC Awards Finalists across the #ForgepointFamily! Now in its 25th year, the SC Awards are cybersecurity’s most prestigious and competitive honor. The SC Awards recognize the people, products and companies that are forging the industry’s future and advancing the cause of safe and secure commerce and communications. Rita Gurevich, CEO & Founder of SPHERE for Security Executive of the Year 1Kosmos for Best Emerging Technology Attivo Networks (a SentinelOne Company) for Best Deception Technology Symmetry Systems for Most Promising Early Stage Startup Forgepoint for Early-Stage Investor of the Year Winners will be announced August 22nd. Best of luck to all! SecurityWeek published an op-ed by Will Lin about The DevSecOps Evolution and Getting "Shift Right" Left. Read More >   IT Business Edge quoted Will Lin in Data Startups: Why the Eye-Popping Funding Rounds? Read More >   BankInfo Security / ISMG quoted Alberto Yépez in Late Stage Startups Feel the Squeeze on Funding, Valuations. Read More > Portfolio Company Updates. Anitian announces new Accelerate Partner Program. Read More >   Concourse Labs releases "The CIO Handbook to Security as Code". Read More > CyberCube releases article on Evaluating Cyber Risk Signals as Indicators of Future Incidents. Read More >   Cyberhaven shares article written by CEO Howard Ting: Data is Like Air - So, How Do You Contain It? Read More >    Cysiv identifies 6 key frustrations with legacy SIEMs and how SOCaaS addresses them. Read More > Ermetic announces the Ermetic Cybersecurity Lab, a new cloud security research organization led by former Microsoft Security Researcher and Multi-Patent Holder Igal Gofman. Read More >   Strata issued a revealing State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report in 2022 with insights from IT leaders and decision-makers. Read More >   SolCyber discusses how a CFO's role in cybersecurity strategy is changing. Read More >   SPHERE announces their CEO & Founder, Rita Gurevich was named a finalist in the 2022 SC Awards. Learn more >    Uptycs introduces Cloud Identity and Entitlement Analytics to Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) offering. Read More > Upcoming Events. Next week brings two major conferences in the USA: RSAC and the Gartner Summit. In addition to curated community events, several of our companies will be there in full force! Learn more > 6/2 Cyberhaven is hosting a live webinar: Protecting Sensitive Data in the Post-DLP Enterprise. Join In >   6/2 Forgepoint's Andrew McClure will speak at the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) Cybersecurity Innovation Symposium regarding Our Vision of Cybersecurity Five Years from Now. Learn More >   6/3 Forgepoint's Karl Sharman, also of Stott & May, will speak at the NetDiligence Cyberrisk Summit on a panel Why Talent Issues are a Bigger Threat than Ransomware. Learn More >   6/4-5 Ermetic will be hosting daytime cocktails and chill space at the BSides 2022 Information Security Conference in San Francisco. Learn More >   6/22-23 WireWheel will be hosting SPOKES, a free virtual privacy and technology conference. Learn More >   6/26-7/1 Uptycs is bound for Ireland to be a Platinum Sponsor of the 34th Annual FIRST Conference. Learn More > Portfolio Company Jobs. Looking for your next career opportunity or know someone who is? Browse or share our portfolio company job board, with 500+ open roles across 30+ innovative startups.  View Job Board Copyright © 2022 Forgepoint Capital, 400 S El Camino Real, Suite 1050, San Mateo, CA 94402 Unsubscribe Manage preferences Subscribe to the Forgepoint newsletter  |
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