Human resources technology company Checkr Inc. today announced the launch of Identity Verification, a new hiring solution designed to help employers confirm candidates are whom they say they are. The new IDV offering is built directly into Checkr’s application flow and allows businesses to detect potential fraud earlier, reduce operational risk and support more accurate ...

Security operations startup Fig Security Inc. launched today and announced that it hadsraised $38 million in new funding to support product development, increase its headcount and support go-to-market growth, particularly in North America. Founded in 2025 by Gal Shafir, Nir Loya Dahan and Roy Haimof (pictured), who previously held leadership roles in organizations including Siemplify ...

Venture capital funding continues to flow into artificial intelligence and agentic AI governance, control and security as three startups announced new funding yesterday and today, with JetStream Security Inc. raising $34 million, Guild.ai Inc. raising $44 million and WorkOS Inc. raising $100 million. JetStream Security pitches itself as sitting at the intersection of AI adoption ...

Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. rose slightly in late trading today after the cybersecurity company reported slightly better-than-expected earnings and revenue in its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and gave an outlook roughly in line with expectations. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, CrowdStrike reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.12, up from 81 ...

Artificial intelligence security platform company DeepKeep Ltd. today launched a new AI agent attack surface scanning and discovery solution that maps the risks associated with each agent within an agentic enterprise workflow. As organizations increasingly deploy nondeterministic, large language model-based agents with access to business applications, tools and data, they are expanding their attack surface ...

Cloud networking company Alkira Inc. today announced the launch of a new Connect Partner Program, designed to help partners solve complex networking and artificial intelligence infrastructure challenges more quickly and profitably. The program has been built to mirror modern enterprise buying motions. Alkira pitches it as its evolution into a partner-first platform company. The Connect ...

A new report out from Cloudflare Inc. today warns that cybercrime has reached full industrial scale, with attackers weaponizing the openness of the internet and the connective tissue of cloud and software-as-a-service platforms to move faster and more efficiently than ever. The inaugural 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report draws on telemetry from a network that processes ...

A new report out today from Zenity Labs, the research arm of agentic security company Zenity Ltd., details a family of vulnerabilities affecting agentic browsers, including Perplexity AI Inc.’s Comet browser, that can enable zero-click agent hijacking, local file exfiltration and even password vault takeover within authenticated sessions. The vulnerabilities, dubbed “PleaseFix,” target a new ...

Cloud networking company Cato Networks Ltd. today announced the launch of Cato Dynamic Prevention, an auto-adaptive threat prevention engine that allows enterprises to proactively block advanced threats using legitimate tools and targets. The new offering continuously evaluates activity in full context and correlates signals from across Cato’s sensors over months of activity. Once malicious behavior is identified, ...

Vibe-working with autonomous artificial intelligence agents startup Tess AI revealed today that it has raised $5 million in funding to support the continued development and expansion of its enterprise agent orchestration platform and its seatless, pay-for-impact operating model. Founded in California as Tess Tecnologia Ltda. by Brazilian entrepreneurs, Tess AI is developing an enterprise software platform ...