{"id":17050,"date":"2023-02-10T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/security-awareness-training-startup-riot-raises-12-million\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:33:05","slug":"security-awareness-training-startup-riot-raises-12-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/security-awareness-training-startup-riot-raises-12-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Awareness Training Startup Riot Raises $12 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riot Security, a startup focused on security awareness training, has secured $12 million in a Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based VC fund Base10.<\/p>\n

Riot\u2019s SaaS-based platform provides personalized awareness programs that can be consistently sent to employees in order to foster cybersecurity culture within companies.<\/p>\n

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The programs are run through an interactive chatbot that integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams, and the platform offers quick, immersive courses that generate user-specific content, along with regularly simulated phishing attacks to evaluate risks across employees.<\/p>\n

Founded by Benjamin Netter, Riot<\/a> emerged from the YCombinator startup accelerator and raised $3 million in their 2020 seed round. This Series A round brings the total amount raised by the company to $15 million.<\/p>\n

Additional investors in the Series A round include existing investors Y Combinator, Funders Club and Founders Future, as well as angel investors such as Snyk founder Guy Podjarny, Duolingo co-founder Severin Hacker, Supercell co-founder lkka Paananen, Deel co-founder Alex Bouaziz, and Slack CPO Tamar Yehoshua.<\/p>\n

Related<\/strong>: Investors Bet Big on Subscription-Based Security Skills Training<\/a><\/p>\n

Related<\/strong>: Measuring Cybersecurity Training Effectiveness<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Security Awareness Training Startup Riot Raises $12 Million<\/a> appeared first on SecurityWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Riot Security, a startup focused on security awareness training, has secured $12 million in a Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based VC fund Base10. Riot\u2019s SaaS-based platform provides personalized awareness programs that can be consistently sent to employees in order to foster cybersecurity culture within companies. The programs are run through an interactive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funding-ma","category-training-awareness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050","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=17050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}