Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before they can detect threats – a slow and costly process that’s increasingly breaking down in cloud environments where volumes are exploding and data lives everywhere. AI cybersecurity startup Vega Security wants to flip that approach by running secu...
Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before they can detect threats – a slow and costly process that’s increasingly breaking down in cloud environments where volumes are exploding and data lives everywhere. AI cybersecurity startup Vega Security wants to flip that approach by running security where the data already lives, implementing in cloud services, data lakes, and existing storage systems. And the two-year-old firm just raised a $120 million Series B round to scale that vision, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Led by Accel with participation from Cyberstarts, Redpoint, and CRV, the new round nearly doubles Vega’s valuation to $700M and brings its total funding to $185 million, money the startup will use to further develop its AI-native security operations suite, beef out its go-to-market team, and expand globally. Shay Sandler, co-founder and CEO of Vega, told TechCrunch that the current operating model of the SIEM (security information and event management) — the dominant technology in this domain for the last two decades — is not only “crazy expensive,” but is also increasingly causing AI-native security operations to fail. In complex cloud environments, he says, the current model often increases exposure to threat actors. “Vega has defined a new operating model that enables organizations to leverage the full potential of their enterprise data to achieve incident response readiness, without all the complexity, the cost, the drama,” Shay Sandler, co-founder and CEO of Vega, told TechCrunch. “We want to simply enable them to reach AI-native detection response capability anywhere the data is, at scale.” Like so many cybersecurity founders, Sandler did his time in the Israeli military’s cybersecurity unit before being one of the founding employees behind Granulate, which Intel acquired for $650 million in 2022. After a year at Intel, Sandler decided t...
Smaller stocks and value equities are displaying leadership traits, indicating investors may want to allocate $1,000 (or more) to this Vanguard ETF. This year is still in its early innings, but some clear trends are already emerging, and investors may do well to heed those signals. Those include leadership by smaller stocks and value names. With the Russell 2000 index up 7.59% year to date, small-...
Smaller stocks and value equities are displaying leadership traits, indicating investors may want to allocate $1,000 (or more) to this Vanguard ETF. This year is still in its early innings, but some clear trends are already emerging, and investors may do well to heed those signals. Those include leadership by smaller stocks and value names. With the Russell 2000 index up 7.59% year to date, small-cap stocks are generating plenty of buzz as value equities perform well across a variety of market capitalization spectrums. Just look at the Russell 1000 Value index, which is higher by 6.77% since the start of the year. As is par for the course, mid-cap stocks are getting lost in the shuffle, but that doesn't diminish the allure of the Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF (VOE +0.06%) as perhaps the best of that issuer's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to allocate $1,000 to right now. Sure, performance bolsters the case for this ETF. It's beating large-cap value gauges while trouncing the Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO +0.25%), its blend counterpart. That scenario could extend into this year. This Vanguard ETF is just getting started While this Vanguard ETF merits closer examination today, that urgency doesn't diminish its relevance to investors considering it as a possible addition to a buy-and-hold strategy. Actually, that's where this fund can truly shine. Here's why. Overlooked as they are, mid-cap stocks have a history of outpacing their larger and smaller counterparts over extended periods, while often being less volatile than small-cap names. Said another way, this Vanguard ETF may offer investors long-term returns comparable to or exceeding those of similar small-cap funds while subjecting them to shallower drawdowns. Expand NYSEMKT : VOE Vanguard Index Funds - Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF Today's Change ( 0.06 %) $ 0.11 Current Price $ 191.28 Key Data Points Day's Range $ 191.07 - $ 191.69 52wk Range $ 139.38 - $ 191.69 Volume 52K Speaking of mitigating risk, this ETF has its own buf...