Cerca Partners

💫 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

🚀 We are proud to share that 5 of Cerca’s portfolio companies were recognized among the 30 most innovative startups in Cybersecurity! Notable Capital’s Rising in Cyber list features the top 30 VC-backed private cyber companies across early, mid, and late stages, as determined by more than 100 CISOs, VPs of security, VCs, and other security leaders. Check out the full report with all the honorees and key trends in Cybersecurity >> https://risingincyber.com/ Well done to SafeBase, Descope, Cyera, Island, Wiz, and all their teams, you are the next generation of the Cybersecurity industry leadership💪 Glenn Solomon Oren Yunger Dan Cahana Haleli Barath Ofer Katz Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

🚀 Jovu is launching today! 🚀 Check out Jovu, Amplication’s AI-powered platform that turns ideas into production-ready backend in minutes! ✨ Please show them some love and support by visiting their PH page and sharing your feedback 🙏 Congrats on the launch Yuval and the entire Amplication team! Inna Bell Oren Alaluf     https://lnkd.in/dHMdbwBb

Proud of our portfolio companies, FundGuard, Oasis Security, Descope, and Zafran Security for making it into Calcalist כלכליסט’s 2024 list of Israel's 50 Most Promising Startups! Well done to all the wonderful companies who made it to the list and proved impressive resilience and determination in this challenging year 💪 🏦 Lior Yogev, Yaniv Zecharya, Uri Katz 🤖 Danny Brickman, Amit Zimerman 🔑 Slavik Markovich, Dan Sarel, Guy Rinat, Rishi Bhargava, Aviad Lichtenstadt, Meir Wahnon, Doron Sharon, Gilad Shriki 🛡️Sanaz Yashar, Ben Seri, Snir Havdala https://lnkd.in/dAhrbs6a

Congratulations to Wiz for their major $1 Billion raise in Series E financing round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and Thrive Capital. 🎉 Having been one of their earliest backers, it's inspiring to witness their journey, achieving so many impressive milestones. This is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the entire team. We’re excited to see where you go from here and are grateful to be along for the ride! Big congrats Assaf, Ami, Roy, Yinon and the whole Wiz team! https://lnkd.in/eicYGU93 Ofer Katz Haleli Barath Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich

Big news: Our portfolio company, the API security leader Noname Security is being acquired by Akamai Technologies for more than $450 Million, merely 4 years since inception. Congratulations to the brilliant Oz Golan & Shay Levi. Ofer Katz Haleli Barath Nir Falevich

Congratulations to SafeBase who just raised a $33M Series B led by Touring Capital. We're thrilled to continue furthering our partnership with Al Yang, Adar Arnon, and the entire SafeBase team. With this new round of funding, SafeBase will continue to deliver their vision: to revolutionize the security review process, and pave the way for a future where third-party risk assessments are frictionless and in real-time. Haleli Barath Ofer Katz Ronnie Zahavi Nir Falevich https://lnkd.in/eS3Rjj5U

Very proud that two of Cerce portfolio companies Torq and FundGuard were named to Globes' Top 10 Most Promising Startups of 2024 🚀 Huge congrats to Team FundGuard and Team Torq for this well-deserved recognition 👏 Ofer Smadari Leonid Belkind Eldad Livni Lior Yogev John Lehner Yaniv Zecharya Uri Katz https://lnkd.in/dy-d2Vh2