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Patterns Across 5 Years of YC Investing

Tom Tunguz

Cybersecurity and industrial/manufacturing are the two fastest growing categories. The Wiz acquisition and the overall growth rates of security companies as a durable budget within software spending has propelled security more broadly. Education & life sciences are right behind.

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BetterCloud announces acquisition of Tricent

BetterCloud

Today, we’re excited to announce the acquisition of Tricent , a top global file sharing governance platform! With Tricent’s advanced governance tools and BetterCloud’s proactive file security features, this acquisition will offer the most comprehensive and robust file security solution for SaaS lifecycle management.

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AI Reaccelerating Cloud Growth

Tom Tunguz

At the time of acquisition, Github had about 25m users & projected to reach 100m in 2025. “All of the number of developers using GitHub has increased 4x since our acquisition 5 years ago.” ” Microsoft’s presence in the developer ecosystem continues to astound. They’ve crossed the mark 2 years early.

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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

SaaStr

” – Colin Jones, CRO Emeritus at Wiz You may have seen the news that Google is making its biggest acquisition — by far — of Cloud and SaaS security leader Wiz for a stunning $32 Billion (!). “I thought I had 60 days to get the value proposition right. In the end, we had roughly 4.”

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Scaling Your Startup and Getting Funded: Key Lessons from Seasoned Pros

Speaker: Brian Chang, Managing Director of Warburg Pincus & Scott Schwan, Chief Product Officer of A-LIGN

While there is no clear-cut answer, many organizations will raise capital to support the cost of growth –– to help drive customer acquisition, deploy a go-to-market strategy, and scale the team. Implement a cybersecurity infrastructure to sustain growth. Land marquee customers and build loyalty with them.

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SaaS Cybersecurity Due Diligence

OPEXEngine

Imagine that you have just signed an LOI for the acquisition of your company. Now comes the final due diligence, including a cybersecurity review. Now comes the final due diligence, including a cybersecurity review. You employ solid cybersecurity tools and procedures, so you think you are pretty safe.

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Google buys cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4B

IT World

The acquisition will complement Google Cloud’s existing security services and together, the companies will deliver a security operations suite as well as advisory services that help customers address critical security challenges and stay protected at every stage of the security lifecycle, Mandiant said in a press release.