Cerby, an Alameda, CA-based security automation platform provider, announced that it raised $12 million in funding.

The funding round was led by Ridge Ventures, with participation from Capital, Founders Fund, Gokul Rajaram, Okta, Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.

Cerby plans to use the new investment to grow the company’s commercial and customer success teams and to increase the size of its library of application integrations to support the top 5,000 most commonly used apps.

Company: Cerby, Inc.

Raised: $12.0M

Round: unknown

Funding Month: February 2022

Lead Investors: Ridge Ventures

Additional Investors: Capital, Founders Fund, Gokul Rajaram, Okta, Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures

Company Website: https://www.cerby.com/

Software Category: security automation platform

About the Company: Cerby is a cybersecurity company focused on helping enterprises harness Shadow IT. Cerby delivers a seamless end-user experience and addresses the shadow IT problem by enabling end-users to onboard and securely use applications of their choosing. The company offers enterprises a registration and automation platform where users can register apps not managed by the IT team, add permissions, and automatically identify and address security gaps whenever they emerge. 

Source: https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/02/security-automation-startup-cerby-raises-12m-to-secure-non-it-managed-apps/