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SentinelOne launches $100M fund to invest in employer cybersecurity startups

SentinelOne, an AI endpoint safety company that went public ultimate June, has introduced the release of S Ventures, a $100 million fund to invest in the technology of enterprise cybersecurity startups.

The release of S Ventures is an exciting time for the cybersecurity market. While startups in this region have lengthily weathered the modern monetary typhoon higher than most, layoffs are now commonplace at cyber startups. In addition, new statistics suggest that modern-day numbers are down across financing and M&A.

Tomer Weingarten, co-founder, and CEO of SentinelOne, believes this wavering market represents a possibility for his enterprise, which is eager to diversify its cognizance far from mergers and acquisitions and into challenging investment. SentinelOne these days finished its $617 million acquisition of risk detection platform Attivo Networks, which observed its takeover of Scalyr, a server log monitoring tools issuer, for $one hundred fifty-five million.

"For us, M&A is a capital-in-depth device," Weingarten informed TechCrunch. "Venture, however, permits us to nurture an atmosphere around SentinelOne and, in a few cases force higher outcomes for our customers. So it's an effective tool to power any effect we want without too much capital."

S Ventures will make investments throughout all tiers inside the startup lifecycle with a focal point on safety and records agencies that carry new thoughts to its SentinelOne's Singularity XDR Marketplace, a platform that integrates security programs and equipment across providers right into a single platform without having to code or understanding a way to script.

"We're trying to consciousness on ideas, technology, and people that could force consequences within the corporation, given we have a totally specific vantage factor into enterprise infrastructure," Weingarten said." But typically speaking, we're searching out agencies that could make a high-quality effect, are project-pushed, and can disrupt undoubtedly."

S Ventures has already invested in some startups, consisting of API e-mail safety platform Armorblox and continuous cyber asset control and controls platform Noetic Cyber. These startups are part of an already bumper list of S Ventures portfolio corporations which include Torq, a no-code security automation platform accelerating complex danger response workflows, and Laminar, a platform that gives complete statistics observability throughout the public cloud to lessen the attack surface and detect actual-time records leaks.

"When we paintings with these organizations, we offer advice, and we have some of the quality operators in the enterprise, so it's approximately supporting their scale," Weingarten brought. "It's about assisting them no longer make the equal mistakes that we have perhaps finished over time."

SentinelOne's corporate improvement head Rob Salvagno will run the fund, sponsored by David Kellenberger inside the U.S., and Iren Reznikov, the business enterprise's director of corporate improvement and assignment investments in Israel.