Alcide raises $7M to redefine cloud security
Alcide has raised $7M in Series A funding from new investor CE Ventures alongside existing investors Intel Capital and Elron.The funding, raised only seven months after the Alcide cloud-native security platform’s general availability and the company’s selection as a Gartner Cool Vendor, will be used to support a go-to-market strategy and an expansion into the US and EMEA markets.
Ben Weiss, partner at CE Ventures, will join Alcide’s board as part of the round.
The Alcide cloud-native platform secures the cloud architectures common in today’s cloud-native world and composed of different apps, architecture and infrastructure – each with its own needs, requirements and security protocols. The Alcide Microservices Firewall brings application-aware micro-segmentation, always on threat intelligence, powered by Alcide’s embedded policies enforcement capabilities.
The Alcide Firewall supports developers and security teams with a way to manage cross-cloud security, empowering them to define, apply and enforce embedded security policies across clouds for continuous governance, risk and trust assessment.
With Alcide embedded firewall policies deployed, developers are now able to whitelist their security requirements at design time and enforce them at runtime.
“We are excited to support the Alcide team as they address the current market need for a new kind of a cloud firewall,” said Ben Weiss, partner at CE Ventures. “Alcide’s Microservices Firewall provides discovery of infrastructure and application dependencies, as well as difficult-to-obtain enforcement of unified security controls, wrapped up in a simplified security platform.”
“As cloud adoption continues to grow rapidly, businesses are faced with new security blind spots inherent in distributed environments,” said Anthony Lin, Intel Capital vice president and managing director of Intel Capital International. “Alcide’s unified security solution helps to address these risks by enabling businesses to uniformly secure and control their environments – regardless of their cloud provider, workload or third-party services.”
“We built Alcide as a security solution that can enforce unique app-based security policies across all services, uniformly and automatically, but can also address the real need of security and DevOps teams to have one consolidated and comprehensive approach that includes the network, applications and external services,” said Ranny Nachmias, CEO and co-founder of Alcide. “We’re excited to use this funding to bring our Microservices Firewall to new markets and expand our sales and marketing teams, on the leading edge of the cloud-security revolution.”
Alcide has also expanded its presence into the US and EMEA markets, with new hires and channels that will support business development.