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While it is true cybersecurity funding has significantly slowed, it certainly has not dried up.

Data security startup Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 billion valuation. New investors Spark Capital, Georgian and AT&T Ventures, alongside existing investors Sequoia Capital, Accel, Redpoint Ventures, and Cyberstarts also participated in the round.

The round nearly triples the New York-based startup’s valuation from its $100 million Series B last June which valued it at $500 million. Founded in 2021, Cyera has raised $460 million to date, per the company

Cyera offers a platform that helps security teams at companies understand what data they have and how it’s used, as well as how to secure it — all of which has become more important with companies relying on data to drive AI initiatives.

The startup also uses AI in its platform to assess risks a companies’ data represents regarding security, privacy and regulatory compliance.

“CIOs and CISOs are realizing it is critical that they secure all of their enterprise data as an absolute necessity in order to thrive and survive in a new AI-driven world,” said co-founder and CEO Yotam Segev. “Cyera is working closely and solving this problem for the world’s largest enterprises.”

Cyber cash

Cyera becomes just the latest cybersecurity firm to make headlines regarding big money funding — or at least the potential of big money.

Another data-related security company, Microsoft-back Rubrik, filed to go public just last week in the latest sign of a reawakening IPO market.

In the past month, there also has been a plethora of startup’s raising large private rounds, including:

• New York-based Coro, a cybersecurity platform purpose-built for small and medium-sized enterprises, announced a $100 million Series D led by One Peak;
• New York-based data privacy startup BigID raised a $60 million round led by Riverwood Capital; and
• Nozomi Networks locked up a $100 million Series E from investors including Mitsubishi Electric and Schneider Electric. The San Francisco-based company offers industrial security — also called operational technology security — and IoT security platforms.

Related Crunchbase Pro list:

• Cybersecurity Funding

Related reading:

• Cyera Nabs $100M To Protect Data
• Nozomi Networks Raises $100M As Investors Eye Industrial Cybersecurity Once Again

Illustration: Dom Guzman

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