Cerca Partners

🌟 Celebrating the Ecosystem: Dazz and Wiz Join Forces! At Cerca Partners, we feel privileged to have supported both Dazz and Wiz along their journeys. Watching these two portfolio companies join forces is a proud moment for us. Congratulations to everyone involved—we’re excited to see the impact this next chapter will bring to the industry.🛡️✨ https://lnkd.in/gSvkeJaN Merav Bahat Tomer Schwartz Yuval Ofir Cerca Partners Haleli Barath Ofer Katz Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

💡 Exciting Update from Cyera! Cyera, a Cerca portfolio company, doubled its valuation to $3 billion in just six months, and raised an additional $300m in series D financing, led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures. Cyera is redefining data security in the cloud and AI era. Their AI-driven platform helps organizations efficiently discover, classify, and protect their data, setting new standards for securing information in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Congratulations to Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan, and the Cyera team on this achievement. 🔗 Read more about their Series D round in TechCrunch 👉 https://lnkd.in/dfZu6JBf Cerca Partners Haleli Barath Ofer Katz Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

Cerca’s portfolio makes up 20% of the annual Fortune and Lightspeed's #Cyber60, with 12 portfolio companies! As the cyber venture scene becomes more noticeable and competitive than ever, we couldn’t be prouder to support these twelve companies on their journey to become category leaders. Congratulations to all founders and teams for achieving well-deserved recognition. 👏 Descope | Linx Security | Oasis Security | Upwind Security | Dazz | Legit Security | SafeBase | Torq | Armis | At-Bay | Island | Wiz Check out the full list 👉 https://lnkd.in/ebPGb6UA Ofer Katz Haleli Barath Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

🚀 We’re excited to announce the latest addition to Cerca’s portfolio: Matia, the modern data operations platform, is launching out of stealth and announcing their $10.5M Seed round, led by Leaders Fund. As a data operations platform, Matia streamlines data management through unified ingestion, reverse ETL, observability, and cataloging. Designed for seamless collaboration, Matia empowers organizations and their data teams to make faster, smarter decisions with less tool bloat. Congratulations to the entire Matia team 👏 We’re proud to support you in your journey to transform the future of data and analytics. Read the story behind Matia in their blog post. Link in the comments. 👇 Benjamin Segal Geva Segal Ofer Katz Haleli Barath Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

Proud of our portfolio companies, Upwind Security & Zafran Security, for making it to The Information's prestigious 50 Most Promising Startups -- 2 of the only 3 cybersecurity companies featured! Congrats to Sanaz Yashar Amiram Shachar and their teams. Ofer Katz Haleli Barath Nir Falevich Ronnie Zahavi

We're thrilled to announce that our portfolio companies, Savvy and Descope, have been named 2024 #SINET16 Innovator Award winners! 🎉 Every year, SINET evaluates hundreds of emerging cybersecurity companies globally, selecting the 16 most innovative and promising ones. Savvy and Descope were recognized alongside 14 other cybersecurity companies as the most innovative and compelling solutions in the market for addressing cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. A huge congratulations to the entire teams at Savvy and Descope for their hard work and dedication. 👏 👉SINET16 Innovator Award Overview: https://lnkd.in/etvJpdq 👉 Reas Savvy's Press Release: https://lnkd.in/gT35GfSs 👉 Read Descope's Press Release: https://lnkd.in/dS-sX6z4 Haleli Barath Ofer Katz Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

Congratulations to our portfolio company Torq on an impressive $70M C round led by Evolution Equity Partners. This is yet another milestone on the company's inspiring journey to become a category leader in SOC automation. Ofer Smadari Eldad Livni Leonid Belkind Haleli Barath Ofer Katz Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

💫 Major news from our portfolio: Dazz, the unified security remediation platform, just secured $50 million in funding led by existing investors Greylock, Cyberstarts, Insight Partners, and Index Ventures! Dazz enables security and development teams to remediate risks and reduce exposure across code, clouds, applications, and infrastructure. Its unified remediation platform rapidly uncovers blind spots, prioritizes issues, and streamlines fixes in a developer-friendly workflow, so risk windows shrink from weeks to hours. Congrats to Merav Bahat, Tomer Schwartz, Yuval Ofir, and the Dazz team for their hard work and dedication leading to this milestone! 🎉 Full coverage here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gvZ7dncN

🎉 Congratulations to Linx Security, the modern Identity Security solution, on its launch out of stealth with $33M in funding, led by Index Ventures and Cyberstarts. We are proud to support Linx on their mission to redefine how enterprises govern and secure their identities, taking back control over their whole identity lifecycle. Congrats Israel Duanis Niv Goldenberg, and the entire Linx team!   Learn more about Linx on TechCrunch - https://lnkd.in/dVwZAtJa Haleli Barath Ofer Katz Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

🚨 Major OpenSSH Vulnerability in the Spotlight 🚨 Our portfolio company Upwind Security is shedding light on a regreSSHion, a critical security flaw potentially affecting many cloud systems. Here's what you need to know: 🔹 What: A newly discovered vulnerability in OpenSSH, a widely used secure communication tool 🔹 Risk: Potentially exposes millions of Linux-based systems to complete system takeover 🔹 Good news: Upwind's team is sharing strategies to address this issue Curious about what this means for your business? Check out Upwind's explanation and mitigation strategies: https://lnkd.in/g2z7ZrtF Up & Upwind! 🏄♂️ Moshe Hassan Eliad Mualem Denise Ashur Lavi Ferdman Amiram Shachar