October's cyber security vendor transaction highlights
- 35 total funding and M&A transactions
- $659 Million raised over 28 rounds
- 7 M&A events
October's funding round breakdown

October's funding rounds and mergers & acquisitions
Funding
M&A
Funding
Vendor | Activity Type | Financials | Market Segment |
Synqly | Seed | $4,000,000 | Orchestration |
Fairblock Network | Seed | $2,500,000 | Crypto |
Gutsy | Seed | $51,000,000 | GRC |
Cyacomb | Seed | $4,500,000 | Forensics |
Anonybit | Seed | $3,000,000 | Identity |
CipherStash | Seed | $3,000,000 | Data |
Harmonic Security | Seed | $7,000,000 | AI/LLM |
Compliance Risk | Seed | $3,500,000 | GRC |
Zygon | Seed | $3,000,000 | SaaS Security |
ZeroRISC | Seed | $5,000,000 | Firmware Security |
Carefull | Funding, A | $16,500,000 | Fraud |
Conveyor | Funding, A | $12,500,000 | GRC |
HarfangLab | Funding, A | $26,500,000 | Detection/Response |
Turnkey | Funding, A | $14,500,000 | Crypto |
Reality Defender | Funding, A | $15,000,000 | Fraud |
Darwinium | Funding, A | $18,000,000 | Fraud |
Spec | Funding, A | $15,000,000 | Fraud |
Blockaid | Funding, A | $33,000,000 | Crypto |
Cranium | Funding, A | $25,000,000 | AI/LLM |
Upfort | Funding, A | $8,000,000 | Cyber Insurance |
JinJing Yunhua | Funding, B | $14,000,000 | Detection/Response |
Adlumin | Funding, B | $70,000,000 | XDR |
FingerprintJS | Funding, C | $33,000,000 | Fraud |
Island | Funding, C | $100,000,000 | Browser |
Censys | Funding, C | $50,000,000 | Vulnerability |
Evo Security | Funding | $1,000,000 | Identity |
Prove Identity | Funding | $40,000,000 | Identity |
SecureW2 | Funding | $80,000,000 | Identity |
M&A
Vendor | Activity Type | Acquiring Company | Financials | Market Segment |
Trsutwave | Acquisition | Chertoff Group | $205,000,000 | MSSP |
Uno | Acquisition | Okta | Undisclosed | Identity |
Revelstoke | Acquisition | Arctic Wolf | Undisclosed | Orchestration |
Verve Industrial Protection | Acquisition | Rockwell Automation | Undisclosed | OT/ICS |
MNEMO | Acquisition | Accenture | Undisclosed | MSSP |
Dig Security | Acquisition | Palo Alto Networks | $400,000,000 | Data |
Tessian | Acquisition | Proofpoint | Undisclosed |
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