Industry News

dope.security, a firm that claims it is the only fly-director secure web gateway, has scored $16m in a Series A led by Google Ventures.

Backslash Security, a cloud-native app security solution for enterprise AppSec teams, has come out of stealth with $8m in funding.

Ascent, a firm that claims it helps users comply more efficiently, has launched its Compliance Confidence Scorecard. 

Around 4.6 million UK banking users would shop greener if shown the carbon impact data of their choices.

The European Commission has unveiled a new directive that will require companies to verify their environmental claims and labels.

CryptoUK has called for UK banks to be given a ‘white list’ of registered crypto firms to avoid firms in the industry getting ‘debanked’.

Kin, a direct-to-consumer home insurance company has raised an additional $15m in Series D funding, bringing the total raised in the round to $109m.

CompScience Insurance Services has entered a managing general agent (MGA) agreement with Nationwide and Swiss Re to underwrite, bind and service workers’ compensation policies.

The traditional focus of transaction monitoring has been to help regulated firms in the banking and finance sector to detect and prevent money laundering.

Procore Technologies, a global provider of construction management software, has launched construction insurance brokerage to empower builders.