{"id":16714,"date":"2023-01-26T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/tenable-launches-25-million-early-stage-venture-fund\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:32:19","slug":"tenable-launches-25-million-early-stage-venture-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/tenable-launches-25-million-early-stage-venture-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenable Launches $25 Million Early-Stage Venture Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vulnerability management software firm Tenable has launched a $25 million venture fund to place bets on early-stage startups in the attack surface and exposure management space.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new Tenable Ventures plans to make seed- and early-stage investments in companies building technology to help businesses discover, assess and manage security risk.<\/p>\n

The Columbia, Maryland-based Tenable said the fund will work with startups in highly-competitive cybersecurity markets such as Israel and the U.S., to help with the development and go-to-market strategies for exposure management solutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The venture fund also plans to work with startups to improve product design, create consistent and shareable data models, enterprise readiness and more.<\/p>\n

\u201c[We] will invest in companies tackling significant problems that require new and innovative approaches, data sets and platforms,\u201d Tenable said in a note announcing the fund.<\/p>\n

The company said it will look for companies that focus on a preventive approach to security using emerging technologies in cloud security, identity management, external attack surface management, operational technology and vulnerability management.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Such technologies would expand the exposure management ecosystem and could be considered for integration into the Tenable One Exposure Management platform, the company said.<\/p>\n

Tenable Ventures has already made investments in three companies \u2014 software supply chain security play Lineaje, identity threat detection and response firm Authomize and API security startup Araali Networks.<\/p>\n

Tenable has itself been active on the acquisition front, shelling out $45 million<\/a> in 2022 to purchase attack surface management startup Bit Discovery.\u00a0 Prior to that, Tenable also acquired Accurics and Indegy for a combined $238 million.<\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong> Tenable Shells Out $45 Million to Acquire Bit Discovery<\/a><\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong> Tenable to Acquire Accurics in $160M Deal<\/a><\/p>\n

Related<\/strong>: Tenable Acquires OT Security Firm Indegy for $78 Million<\/a><\/p>\n

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Vulnerability management software firm Tenable has launched a $25 million venture fund to place bets on early-stage startups in the attack surface and exposure management space. The new Tenable Ventures plans to make seed- and early-stage investments in companies building technology to help businesses discover, assess and manage security risk. The Columbia, Maryland-based Tenable said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funding-ma","category-venture-capital"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}