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03.02.26 - 18:27
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Venkat Rangarajan Joins DirectDefense as Vice President of Sales (Business Wire)
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Veteran cybersecurity sales leader brings 25+ years of experience scaling high-growth security organizationsDENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DirectDefense, a leading information security services company, today announced that Venkat Rangarajan, CISSP, has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. In this role, Rangarajan will lead DirectDefense's sales strategy, revenue growth initiatives, and go-to-market execution across its cybersecurity services portfolio.
Rangarajan brings more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity spanning sales leadership, services growth, and operational management. Prior to joining DirectDefense, he held senior sales leadership roles at Anvil Secure, Pondurance, and Rapid7, where he built and scaled high-performing sales organizations, drove consistent year-over-year revenue growth, and supported both startup and private-equity-backed environments.
“Venkat brings deep cybersecurity expertise, disciplined sales execution, and a customer-first mindset,” said Jim Broome, Pr...
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21.01.26 - 15:06
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Furl Raises $10M Seed Round to Bring Agentic AI to Security Remediation (Business Wire)
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Ten Eleven Ventures leads the round as Furl helps IT security teams close the gap between finding vulnerabilities and actually fixing themLOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Furl, a security remediation startup, today announced a $10 million Seed round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas and Open Opportunity Fund. Founded by veterans of Rapid7, Automox, and Censys, Furl is focused on the part of security workflows most tools stop short of: execution.
Enterprise security teams have spent years improving detection and prioritization, yet remediation remains slow, manual, and fragmented across Security and IT. Vulnerability backlogs grow faster than teams can address them, while misconfigurations, outdated software, broken installs, and policy drift often sit unresolved for months. According to a Cyentia report commissioned by Cisco, organizations fix only 1 in 10 vulnerabilities they identify.
Furl is built to close that execution gap. The platform ingests findings from exi...
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