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A quieter week in the cyber market.

One thing immediately stood out in the data: no Israeli deals this week. For a country that usually appears weekly across seed, Series A and growth rounds, that absence is notable but likely temporary with Cybertech Global happening this week.

Lets dive in.

In this episode of #TridentTalks, Max Horseman sits down with Sandy Kronenberg, the CEO and Founder of Netarx, to unpack what deepfake-enabled fraud looks like in the real world, and why most organisations are still exposed.

Insider Insight: What a new AI security study tells us about where risk is actually moving
Company Spotlight: The Security Bulldog

Claroty – Series F – $150M – Led by Golub Growth
Claroty raised $150M at an estimated $2.85B pre-money valuation to accelerate global expansion and continue building the industry’s most comprehensive cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection platform. The round reinforces investor confidence in OT, industrial, and critical infrastructure security as a top-tier growth category.

Category: OT / CPS Security, Industrial Cybersecurity
HQ: New York, NY

Stoïk – Series C – €20M – Led by Opera Tech Ventures & Impala Group
Stoïk raised €20M to strengthen its integrated cyber protection model combining prevention, incident response, and cyber insurance. The company will expand across Central and Southern Europe while investing further in AI-driven detection and response capabilities.

Category: Cyber Insurance, SME Cybersecurity, Risk Management
HQ: Paris, France

Symbiotic Security – Seed – $10M – Led by Alven Capital Partners & Drysdale Ventures
Symbiotic Security secured $10M to accelerate development of its AI-powered developer coaching platform, which integrates directly into IDEs to provide real-time vulnerability detection, remediation guidance, and just-in-time security education.

Category: Application Security, Developer Security, AI Security
HQ: New York, NY

AiStrike – Seed – $7M – Led by Blumberg Capital
AiStrike raised $7M to scale its AI-powered security operations platform focused on investigation and response across cloud-native environments. The platform uses behavior analytics and AI-guided automation to reduce analyst workload and accelerate incident response.

Category: SecOps, AI SOC, Incident Response Automation
HQ: Wilmington, DE

Asymmetric Security – Seed – $4.2M – Led by Susa Ventures
Asymmetric Security raised $4.2M to build out its security automation platform for threat investigation and response. The company combines secure automation, forensic analysis, and real-time detection to help security teams resolve incidents faster with less manual effort.

Category: Security Automation, Incident Response, SOC Tooling
HQ: San Francisco, CA

The Security Bulldog – Pre-Seed – $400K – Led by Right Side Capital Management
The Security Bulldog raised $400K to accelerate development of its AI-powered cybersecurity intelligence platform. The product focuses on reducing analyst cognitive burden by curating and presenting threat intelligence in a clear, human-friendly, natural-language format.

Category: Threat Intelligence, AI Security Analytics
HQ: Washington, DC

Acendex – PE Growth / Expansion – Undisclosed – AYCE Capital
Acendex received growth capital to support expansion of its managed IT and cybersecurity services offering, including network monitoring, cloud services, disaster recovery, and security operations for mid-market customers.

Category: Managed Security Services (MSSP), IT Services
HQ: Cleveland, OH

CyberNut – Early Stage VC – Undisclosed – Growth Street Partners
CyberNut raised venture funding to expand its security awareness training platform tailored for school districts. The platform focuses on gamified micro-training to combat phishing, social engineering, and AI-generated scam threats targeting education environments.

Category: Security Awareness Training, Human Risk Management
HQ: Miami, FL

Monoly – Later Stage VC – Undisclosed – Stonebridge Ventures, LF Investment, Asia2G Capital
Monoly raised funding to expand its data-sharing and governance platform beyond traditional security use cases, enabling organizations to better control and govern third-party AI data usage and internal data movement.

Category: Data Security, AI Governance, SaaS
HQ: San Jose, CA

Nothing of note this week!!

A fascinating new study from Google researchers and UCL has uncovered something recruiters and HR professionals should be paying attention to: the scale at which people struggle with digital privacy, security is enormous and growing fast.

By analysing over 1.1 billion Reddit posts from 2021-2024, the researchers identified 3 million instances of people actively seeking help with digital safety issues. The findings paint a picture that's directly relevant to how we think about candidate and client interactions.

The numbers are striking:

Help-seeking posts grew 66% in the last year alone, with over 100,000 questions posted monthly by the end of 2024. The top concerns? Scams (28%), account access issues (20%), and privacy tool configuration (20%). But perhaps most interesting for those of us in recruitment: harassment-related queries accounted for 10% of posts.

What does this mean for Trident and you?

The study reveals that people don't just want technical fixes, they're seeking three things: sensemaking ("What's actually happening here?"), guidance ("What should I do next?"), and therapeutic support ("Am I overreacting?"). This mirrors what we often see in recruitment when candidates face unusual requests or suspicious communications claiming to be from employers.

With employment scams increasingly sophisticated, this research underscores why trusted intermediaries matter. The researchers found that generic, one-size-fits-all security advice fails users because their situations involve "complex combinations of threats, platforms, mitigations, context, and emotions."

For us, it's a reminder that our role extends beyond matching candidates to roles, we're often the first line of trust verification in an increasingly murky digital landscape.

Reducing analyst overload with AI-driven clarity

Website - The Security Bulldog

The Security Bulldog is an early-stage cybersecurity company focused on one of the most persistent problems in security operations: cognitive overload.

What they do

The platform uses AI and natural language processing to curate, contextualise, and surface cybersecurity intelligence in a way that’s human-friendly and actionable. Rather than dumping raw alerts or feeds on analysts, it aims to reduce noise and accelerate understanding.

Why it’s interesting

Funding

The Trident Take

This is a small round but it aligns with a big theme. As AI increases the volume and complexity of security signals, tools that compress complexity into usable insight become disproportionately valuable. Not every winner in this market needs to be a platform giant.

VP Engineering
💰 $250K–$300K + bonus + equity
📍 East Coast
AI Threat Intelligence vendor delivering predictive intelligence on threat actor infrastructure to disrupt attack pathways.
Contact: [email protected]

Field Marketing Manager
💰 ~$200K OTE
📍 East / Central US
AI SOC platform focused on modern, automated security operations and detection workflows.
Contact: [email protected]

Account Executive (PACNW)
💰 ~$300K OTE
📍 Pacific Northwest
Series C cybersecurity vendor ($60M raised) operating in the security operations and threat intelligence space.
Contact: [email protected]

VP Global Sales
💰 $400K–$500K OTE
📍 US (Remote)
Series A ($20M) web application security and PCI DSS-focused vendor scaling global enterprise sales.
Contact: [email protected]

Account Executive – West & East
💰 $320K–$350K OTE
📍 West & East US
Series A ($15M) AI-powered incident response platform selling into Fortune 5–250 enterprise customers.
Contact: [email protected]

Enterprise Account Executive (AI Security)
💰 $180K–$200K base | $360K OTE
📍 East Coast (Remote / Field-based)
Early-stage, VC-backed AI security company redefining how enterprises secure modern environments. True enterprise role owning complex sales cycles and $150K+ ACV deals with senior security stakeholders.
Contact: [email protected]

Federal Account Manager
💰 ~$350K OTE (50/50)
📍 DMV Area
Enterprise risk and compliance management platform. Requires strong Fed Civ network and prior success as a Federal AE or Account Manager.
Contact: [email protected]

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