Tuesday, August 7, 2018

RiskSense Gets $12M

RiskSense, which develops threat and vulnerability management software, has raised $12M in a Series B funding, the company announced on Tuesday. The funding was led by Spring Mountain Capital and NightDragon Security, and also included UL Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Sun Mountain Capital, EPIC Ventures and Jump Capital. RiskSense says its technology comes as a result of collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community on applying artificial intelligence to cybersecurity problems as part of the CACTUS (Computational Analysis of Cyber Terrorism against the U.S.) project. Raymond Wong of Spring Mountain Capital, and Dave DeWalt of NightDragon both joins the RiskSense board. Srinivas Mukkamala is CEO of RiskSense. The company has major operations, and was started in Albuqerque, New Mexico.