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The US government has revealed it is introducing a new cyber defence center focused on strengthening collaboration between the public and private sector.

Fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics platform Pixalate has raised $18.1m in growth funding.

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye Products are set to merge into a single company that will have a revenue of almost $2bn.

SCYTHE, which designs adversarial emulation to help companies combat cyberattacks, has collected $10m in its Series A.

SaaS security startup Grip Security has raised $19m from a Series A financing round led by Intel Capital.

Eventus Systems, provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions for customer bases such as broker-dealers, banks and crypto exchanges, has gained its first Canadian client, BitBuy.

Global cybersecurity firm ThreatLocker has raised a $100m Series C funding round, which was led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic.

Israel-based cloud cybersecurity platform Mesh Security has launched out of stealth alongside the close of a $4.5m seed round.

Global cybersecurity SaaS platform Field Effect has secured $34.5m in a funding round from Edison Partners and Round13 Growth Fund.