AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ – New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company that protects corporations from covert, coordinated disinformation campaigns, announced today that it has raised $11M in a Series A funding round led by existing investor GGV Capital, with participation from Lux Capital.
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CEO, Jonathon Morgan
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11/04/2018 21:34:32 - Q Research General #4737: Patriots Vote Edition - #3730086
Vote fuckery?
Just watching Fox News about a half hour ago and got interested in one of the anchors interiew of Jay Kaplan, CEO of a company called SYNACK.
My ears popped when he said his company had given $1M each of cyber security products and pro bono services to about ten states in the past year to secure their voting systems.
So, that sounded strange to me. How could a little company be doing all of this probono work?
https://www.synack.com/company/
Have looked around the site and a lot makes me nervous. Maybe there are some better connected techies on CTH who can weigh in.
This is under the timeline:
May 2013
Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr leave the NSA and launch the industry’s first solution to safely crowdsource vulnerability intelligence
August 2013
Synack Secures $1.5M in Seed Funding
April 2014
Synack Secures $7.5M of Funding in Series A Round, Led by KPCB
February 2015
Synack Closes $25M in Series B Funding, Co-Led by GGV Capital and Icon Ventures, Joining KPCB
September 2016
The US Department of Defense awards crowdsourced security contract to Synack as part of their “Hack the Pentagon†program
February 2017
Releases Coverage Analytics – Providing customers with real-time data and visibility in testing reports
February 2017
“Hack the Pentagon†proves to be a successful program, as researchers find critical vulnerabilities in a matter of hours in a Defense Digital Service system
March 2017
Synack closes $21 million in Series C Funding, Backed by Microsoft, HP Enterprise, and Singtel
June 2018
Launches “Secure the Election†initiative offering states free security testing for election systems before the Midterms
The company started out of SanFrancisco. Then I take a look at their partners and, voila:
https://www.synack.com/partners/
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Lux is based in New York City and Silicon Valley.
We are actively investing Lux Ventures V, LP, a $400 million fund. We have $1.4 billion under management.
We invest in seed- and early-stage ventures across multiple sectors, including: 3D printing; machine learning; artificial intelligence; flying robots; surgical robots; synthetic biology; genomics; satellites; space; drones; computational imaging and recognition; new materials; holograms; “fixers” for the future; the internet of things; connected hardware; the smart home and virtual reality.
About our name: “Lux” is Latin for light—as in: We look where others aren’t and strive to shine a light on the unknown.
If you are a scientist, inventor or entrepreneur with an idea that can lead the world into a brighter future, we hope you will reach out to us.
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