Sentra, a cloud data-focused security company, has scored $30m in a Series A funding round led by Standard Investments.
Also participating in the round were Zeev Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, Moore Strategic Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, INT3 and Xerox Ventures Following this raise, Sentra has raised a total of $53m.
The company also announced that Standard Investments’ Peter Marturano, technology sector head, and MRV’s Oshri Kaplan, managing director, will be joining its board of directors.
Sentra enables security teams to gain full visibility and control of cloud data, as well as protect against sensitive data breaches across the entire public cloud stack.
This funding will enable Sentra to increase its market presence, invest in its technology and partner ecosystem and, grow its team to meet the accelerating demand of Sentra’s cloud-native data security solution around the globe.
According to Sentra, the addition of Marturano and Kaplan brings tremendous value and industry expertise to Sentra’s Board of Directors.
Marturano leads Standard Investments’ efforts in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors across both later-stage private and public markets.
Serving as one of the lead investors across the cyber and insurtech sectors at MRV, Kaplan has worked with numerous early-stage companies in the boardroom, and has helped them scale through partnerships and high-value growth initiatives.
Sentra CEO and co-founder Yoav Regev said, “As we help our customers understand and protect petabytes of data, this capital will help us accelerate our plans to enable organizations to get the most out of their data by keeping it secured at all times. This is just the beginning for Sentra. I am extremely proud of what our team has accomplished to date and look forward to achieving our shared goals in 2023 and beyond.”
Peris.ai, an Indonesian-based cybersecurity as a service startup, has raised funding in a round led by East Ventures.
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