<p><strong><span class="xn-location">LOS ALTOS</span></strong> &#8212; <u>Contrast Security</u>, a provider of next-gen code security tools, has closed <span class="xn-money">$150 million</span> in a Series E round of funding at a $1 billion-dollar-plus valuation. The oversubscribed round was led by Liberty Strategic Capital, founded by former Secretary of the Treasury <span class="xn-person">Steven Mnuchin</span>, together with 100% participation from existing Contrast investors Warburg Pincus, Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Microsoft&#8217;s M-12 Fund, AXA Venture Partners and Acero Capital.</p>
<p>This investment allows Contrast to meet the growing demand for the world&#8217;s only platform for code security. It will also enable the company to further gain market share with accelerated global expansion plans, following growth in EMEA and rapid customer adoption in APAC, and provide the company with additional flexibility to execute on strategic opportunities and acquisitions.</p>
<p>Many businesses turned to digital transformation, and the development of applications, to sustain and propel business growth and efficiency. As organizations ramped their development efforts, 84% of developers <u><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&;l=en&;o=3351716-1&;h=2704118515&;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globenewswire.com%2Fen%2Fnews-release%2F2021%2F05%2F04%2F2222642%2F0%2Fen%2FGitLab-s-Fifth-Annual-Global-DevSecOps-Survey-Reveals-2020-Was-Catalyst-for-DevOps-Tool-Adoption.html&;a=said" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">said</a></u> they have been releasing code faster than ever before. Studies also show code is being shipped with serious and/or critical vulnerabilities. This led to major security breaches like SolarWinds and other successful cyber attacks driving The White House to issue an <u>executive order</u> placing strict new standards to improve the security of software.</p>
<p>&#8220;The global economy is running on software applications. We are now seeing business leaders, including Microsoft and Google, commit publicly to spend billions of dollars in order to decrease cybersecurity risks in today&#8217;s fast paced application economy,&#8221; said <span class="xn-person">Alan Naumann</span>, CEO at Contrast Security. &#8220;Supported by President Biden&#8217;s recent executive order, our customers, governments, and many of the world&#8217;s largest companies are investing in prevention and resilience against software cyber attacks.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Contrast not only enables development teams to keep pace but provides a platform solution for security and operations teams alike,&#8221; said Naumann. &#8220;The new investment from Liberty Strategic Capital and all of our existing investors further validates the universal need for improved code security. It is an honor to have them support Contrast, especially given Secretary Mnuchin&#8217;s experience with a global approach to reduce cyber threats. I also am pleased to welcome Secretary Mnuchin to the Contrast Board of Directors.&#8221;</p>
<p>Secretary Mnuchin, Founder and Managing Partner of Liberty Strategic Capital, said: &#8220;Businesses are increasingly dependent on applications to support their critical operations, creating strong demand for solutions like Contrast&#8217;s that help developers ensure, in real-time, that the code underlying these applications is secure from evolving threats from hackers and other malign actors. We believe the team at Contrast has developed a market leading solution, and we are excited to partner with them as they continue to innovate in the application security space.&#8221;</p>
<p>Contrast gets secure code moving for its customer base that consists of tens of thousands of developers at some of the largest companies in the world, including BMW, DocuSign, AXA, <span class="xn-location">Zurich</span>, SOMPO Japan, and American Red Cross, as well as numerous other leading global Fortune 500 enterprises. Contrast also partners with AWS, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and VMware to bring security into cloud applications.</p>

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