GV Leads $26 Million Series B Round in Pangea Cyber

<p><strong><span class&equals;"legendSpanClass"><span class&equals;"xn-location">PALO ALTO <&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; Pangea Cyber has announced a <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;26 million<&sol;span> Series B funding round to accelerate the delivery of its API-based security services&period; The round was led by GV&comma; with participation from Decibel and Okta Ventures&period; They join existing investors Ballistic Ventures and SYN Ventures&period; This brings total funding raised for the one year old company to <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;52 million<&sol;span>&period; Pangea plans to use the funding for product development and to drive developer and builder adoption&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Pangea provides a comprehensive set of services for builders&comma; developed by some of the industry&&num;8217&semi;s best serial entrepreneurs we&&num;8217&semi;ve known for over a decade&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Karim Faris<&sol;span>&comma; General Partner at GV&comma; who will join Pangea&&num;8217&semi;s board as part of the investment&period; &&num;8220&semi;Incorporating the best security practices today involves choosing from an ambiguous and fragmented set of open source and limited commercial offerings&period; Pangea&&num;8217&semi;s compelling vision will create a new standard for cybersecurity practitioners&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Development teams simply lack the expertise to add security capabilities into their applications&period; With up to one million software companies anticipated by 2027 &lpar;according to <u>Forrester<&sol;u>&rpar;&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s essential that the applications they build have access to a trustworthy framework of security functions&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Oliver Friedrichs<&sol;span>&comma; Founder and CEO at Pangea&period; &&num;8220&semi;This new funding will help us to realize and accelerate that vision&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pangea&&num;8217&semi;s Security Platform-as-a-Service framework is available for builders who need to add security functions to their applications&period; Builders use Pangea to log security events&comma; manage export restrictions&comma; handle personally identifiable information &lpar;PII&rpar;&comma; identify malicious files being shared&comma; and block users from risky internet domains&period; Services are offered just like Amazon Web Services&comma; but with a focus on cybersecurity&comma; where you can get every security function in one place&period; Pangea plans on releasing several dozen API-based security services over the next 12 months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Every app developer needs to worry about security — but most of them lack the ability to properly choose&comma; deploy and maintain those security building blocks&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Austin Arensberg<&sol;span>&comma; Senior Director from Okta Ventures&period; &&num;8220&semi;Pangea&&num;8217&semi;s API-based services are a one-stop shop for all things security&period; Its plug-and-play platform allows you to easily embed security into your app&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve seen PaaS offerings from AWS&comma; GCP&comma; and Azure for compute&comma; storage&comma; and database&comma; and CPaaS from Twilio for communications&comma; but we&&num;8217&semi;ve not yet seen a similar model for cybersecurity — with simple-to-use security functions that app builders can easily embed to get to market fast&period; The time is right for the arrival of Security Platform as a Service&comma; or SPaaS&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Barmak Meftah<&sol;span>&comma; Co-founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures&period; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re excited to welcome GV&comma; Decibel&comma; and Okta Ventures onboard as this further validates our initial investment in Pangea&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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