Cyber Security Startup Socket Receives $20 Million Investment

Socket is a San Francisco, CA-based startup that fights security vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defence-in-depth and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript and Python dependencies. It was reported that it raised $ 20 million in the Series A financing round. Investment round; Abstract Ventures, Wndrco, Michael Ovitz, Arash Ferdowsi, Jawed Karim, Aaron Levie, Elad Gil, Dylan Field, Nat Friedman, Julia and Kevin Hartz, Guillermo Rauch, Freddy Kerrest. It was also directed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Cyber Security Startup Socket

Led by Founder/CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh, Socket provides an addiction management platform that uses "content-based analytics" to analyse addiction behaviour and understand open source risk. In the meantime, it should be noted that with the new investment of $ 20 million, the total investment received by the startup to date has reached $ 24.6 million. According to the information obtained by Socket, what will the new investment be used for? It was stated that it will be used to support more programming languages as well as expanding the company's team.