Israeli-US cybersecurity firm Cybereason has introduced the completion of a $120 million financing spherical led by SoftBank Corp., SoftBank Imaginative and prescient Fund 2, and Liberty Strategic Capital.
The brand new financing spherical got here as a serious shock after the corporate has been on the heart of a authorized dispute with its traders, the Japanese funding large SoftBank and the Liberty Fund of former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The corporate’s CEO Eric Gan, who left the corporate final week, till lately claimed in a lawsuit he filed in opposition to the traders that Cybereason, which previously has raised cash at a valuation of almost $3 billion, was near chapter if it didn’t increase capital.
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Gan invested in Cybereason in 2015, whereas he was a part of SoftBank. After the departure of the corporate’s founder and CEO Lior Div in April 2023, he took his place, main the corporate to boost $100 million from present traders. Final week, Gan advised “Bloomberg” that the corporate had a money circulate drawback.
Regardless of the corporate’s tough scenario and the lack of popularity it suffered lately as a result of SoftBank’s aggressive strikes, it merged with Trustwave final November, apparently in a inventory deal with out its worth being disclosed. The deal left SoftBank as the primary shareholder within the merged firm.
For the reason that merger, Cybereason, which specialised initially in endpoint safety, additionally manages cybersecurity companies, risk detection and response, in addition to knowledge safety for company info and e mail. It’s competing in a crowded market with rival options from firms corresponding to Palo Alto Networks and SentinelOne.
Cybereason has fallen on onerous occasions since was managed from Tel Aviv by its Israeli founders. In October 2021, the corporate raised funds at a $2.73 billion valuation however the tech disaster and an over-focus on the Japanese market on the expense of the US and different worldwide markets led to a valuation discount by the primary investor, SoftBank. In response to PitchBook, the corporate’s valuation in September 2023 was $475 million.
Gan has been changed as CEO by Manish Narula, till lately Cybereason’s CFO. He represents investor SoftBank. Over the previous few years, the corporate’s workforce has shrunk from 1,374 individuals in March 2022 to lower than half that right this moment, of which about 200 are in Israel, based on LinkedIn. In 2022, analysis and consulting agency Gartner ranked Cybereason on the prime of its endpoint safety rankings, however dropped its rating to a decrease place in 2024, with solely Broadcom under it.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on March 11, 2025.
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