Picus Security, a San Francisco, CA-based security validation company, raised $45M in funding. The round, which brought total funds raised to $80M, was led by Riverwood Capital, with participation from existing investor Earlybird Digital East Fund.

Using the fresh funding, the company plans to improve its threat modeling and deepfake protection services to safeguard high-profile individuals from cyber threats in their personal lives.

The Series B funding was led by Critical Ventures and SineWave Venture Partners, with other key investors joining in to support RunSafe's mission to protect critical systems from global threats.

Strider Technologies has secured $55 million in Series C funding to bolster its artificial intelligence research, expand into the government sector, and support global growth.

Metabase Q, an IT cybersecurity management company based in San Francisco, has raised $11M in its Series A extension funding. Backers include SYN Ventures and John Watters.

Nonhuman identity and access management company Aembit Inc. has secured $25 million in funding to enhance its solutions. The Series A funding round was led by Acrew Capital.

In an effort to bolster the insights and intelligence used to secure today’s digital economy, Mastercard has agreed to acquire global threat intelligence company Recorded Future from Insight Partners for $2.65bn.

ColorTokens has acquired identity security provider PureID to enhance its microsegmentation platform, Xshield. The acquisition will integrate identity-based segmentation for various environments, including cloud and IoT/OT.

Absolute Security has acquired Syxsense, an endpoint and vulnerability management provider, to enhance its cyber resilience platform. The acquisition aims to simplify patching and remediation through automated workloads.

Backers included BackingMinds, in combination with industry veterans such as Jesper Zerlang (ex-CEO of Logpoint), Lars Ankjer, Otto Krabbe, Rolf Bladt, and several angels and key employees.