StackRox the DevSecOps startup receives $26.5M in recent funding from Menlo Ventures
StackRox, the DevSecOps startup based out of Mountain View, California has secured $26.5 Million in funding in the latest round led by Menlo Ventures. Menlo Ventures initiated the funding round with active participation from Highland Capital Partners and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise along with StackRox’s existing investors, Redpoint Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
StackRox’s Chief Executive Kamal Shah quoted: “Companies are adopting containers and Kubernetes at a record pace to enable the rapid application development that’s needed for business innovation.”
“The pandemic has heightened the urgency for innovation and remote work has added far greater security demands. As a result, we’re seeing substantial growth in demand for our Kubernetes-native security platform compared to legacy container security solutions.”
StackRox was ounded in 2014, and provides Kubernetes-native security platform for cloud-native applications, containers, serverless operating into the DevSecOps space within DevOps.
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform enables security and DevOps teams to enforce their compliance and security policies across the entire container life cycle, from build to deploy to runtime. StackRox integrates with existing DevOps and security tools, enabling teams to quickly operationalize container and Kubernetes security
Since last few years containers and kubernetes have become ubiquitous tools in DevOps ecosystem, in how organisations will manage their deployment workloads, a trend that has only accelerated in the last few years with a predominant shift to public cloud platforms. Alongside that, the new age startups are also heavily using containers to build up and deploy their application stack.
