Ricardo Amper

Team8 and Battery Ventures are excited to lead Koi's $38M A-Round, joining seed investors Picture Capital, NFX and Cerca Partners for a total of $48M in funding. Huge shoutout to founders Amit Assaraf 🎏, Itay Kruk 🎏 and Idan Dardikman 🎏 for pioneering the next wave of endpoint security, covering the blind spots that traditional EDRs and MDMs were never built to protect! [Coming full circle and partnering again with Itay and Idan from Sygnia, a Team8 portfolio company! Amit, you chose well!] From packages and containers to extensions, AI models, and MCPs, Koi delivers visibility, AI-driven risk analysis, and automated enforcement to secure the software perimeter of today’s enterprises. Already protecting over 500,000 endpoints worldwide, Koi’s platform is helping some of the world’s largest companies govern self-installed and unmanaged software. By giving security teams control without slowing innovation, Koi is defining a new category in cybersecurity. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ewtqE4Pk Ori Barzilay, Sarit Firon, Amir Zilberstein, Assaf Mischari, Ori Yankelev, Asaf Azulay, Eyal Eliakim, Uri Shamay, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Dan Amiga, Mickey Boodaei, Barak Schoster Goihman, Dharmesh Thakker, Gigi Levy-Weiss

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Christina Cacioppo the co-founder and CEO of Vanta valued at $2.5bn on why distribution is more important than having a great product.

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Brex just announced they are going all in on "Agentic Commerce".  Here's my interview w/ Founder & CEO Pedro Franceschi where he unpacks why. The battle for Agentic Commerce is one of the most important things happening in fintech...$100s of billions of payment volumes are up for grabs. We talk about - What is agentic commerce & why it matters? - Why the biggest near term opportunity is B2B (not consumer)? - What the competitive landscape looks like? (Ramp also announced their Agentic commerce offering the same day!) I’m especially excited to talk to Pedro because he’s an amazing engineer.   - At 13 he jailbroke the iphone - At 15 he founded Pagar.me (the Stripe of brazil) - At 22 he founded Brex Today, he’s 29, recently married (congrats!) and is working 9-9-6 with a small team of engineers in person in San Francisco to build the future of Agentic Commerce. Check out the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/g5nSRDXJ

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We support thousands of startups on their compliance journey at Vanta, and one thing we hear consistently from founders is that they are closing bigger deals, earlier than ever before. Almost always before their first security hire! That’s why we’ve launched new security capabilities in Vanta to help early teams earn and prove trust like a seasoned enterprise org (without needing a whole department to do it). Introducing: 🔒 AI-powered penetration tests (via our new XBOW integration) 🧠 Security training and onboarding for your team 🔗 Automated vendor discovery and AI-driven reviews 👥 User access management, from access requests to regular reviews 📄 AI Questionnaire Automation and public Trust Centers Security is table stakes now, but it doesn’t have to take over the table. We designed these tools to help you stay focused on building and scaling while still earning trust. Find out how: https://lnkd.in/gtjCsjxC 

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