VulnCheck, a vulnerability intelligence startup, has raised $3.2m for its seed round.
The investment was led by Sorenson Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on software and security.
Also joining the round was In-Q-Tel, a non-profit venture capital firm aimed at companies building security solutions. Other backers included Lux Capital, and Aviso Ventures.
Several angel investors also joined the round, including Open Raven co-founder Dave Cole and Pangea founder Oliver Friedrichs.
With the fund, VulnCheck hopes to hire more staff, as well as enhance the capabilities of its technology.
Founded in 2021, helps enterprises, government agencies and cybersecurity solution providers improve their security through real-time vulnerability intelligence autonomously correlated with unique proprietary exploit and threat intelligence.
Based in Boston, the company has three core products. These are VulnCheck Vulnerability Intelligence, a commercial alternative to the NIST National Vulnerability Database. It claims the tool includes more data, fields, sources, exploit and remediation intelligence, and provides data weeks earlier.
Its second solution is VulnCheck Exploit Intelligence, which helps organisations track all of the world’s exploit proof-of-concept code, exploited in-the-wild information, and exploit metadata, including timelines, to focus remediation resources on the right vulnerabilities.
The final tool is VulnCheck Initial Access Intelligence. This solution provides organisations with detection artifacts, such as Snort or Suricata signatures, YARA rules, PCAPs, and private exploit PoCs, to defend against initial access vulnerabilities, recently exploited or likely to be soon.
Speaking on the deal, Sorenson Ventures venture partner Tony Spinelli said, “VulnCheck’s superpower is its ability to discover vulnerability intelligence that other solutions are unable to access, acquire, and have no ability to find – which is the key to security since you can’t secure what you don’t know about.
“Its deep and talented team with cross-disciplinary expertise in vulnerability research and exploit development gives them a perspective on the threat landscape that we have not seen anywhere else in the industry. The VulnCheck team is providing unique threat insights with much deeper exploit context that organizations formerly had no ability to find.”
Another CyberTech company to raise funds this week was Sendmarc, which protects against email impersonation. It raised $7m in its Series A round.
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