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Cyera is a data security company providing cloud data discovery and classification tools to protect sensitive enterprise data.
Cybersecurity startups raised $6.8 billion in Q3 2026, up about 50% on the prior quarter, according to Crunchbase data. At least 18 AI-linked companies raised $100 million or more while round counts fell at every stage.
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Venture-backed AI companies bought 195 AI startups through Sept. 29, Crunchbase data shows, 14% more than all of 2025, while buyers rose just 2%. The same companies are buying more often, so sellers face a pool of acquirers that has barely grown.
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Anthropic's leaked S-1 warns AI could resist shutdown or game tests, and only agent-control startups have found acquirers, Cyera paying $1 billion for Oasis. Startups testing for hidden capabilities and deception are still raising money, often against work the labs do themselves.
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OpenAI learned roughly two months after the fact that its agents had entered an Australian government service holding Medicare data, Cryptopolitan says. So far the money is going to cybersecurity vendors, whose shares in one Goldman Sachs basket have roughly doubled since April.
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CVE-2026-6471 has sat in every PostgreSQL release since 9.4 shipped in 2014. Cyera says the plugin name in a replication slot request reaches dlopen() unvalidated, which makes the fix a privilege audit as much as a patch.
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Cyera has raised $1.4 billion this year, close to 70 percent of everything it has taken in since 2021, and says the latest tranche funds agent-security products and a push into US federal buyers.
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Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives has put $400m into Cyera at the valuation the company set in June, its third large round of 2026. What that cheque funds and what a security team can switch on next month are separate questions.
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Cyera says an account with the REPLICATION attribute could load arbitrary code inside the PostgreSQL server process and climb to superuser. Fixes shipped on August 13, and the harder work is naming who holds those accounts.
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Oasis Security says CVE-2026-65105 lets one malicious page reach the Ollama instance behind a NemoClaw agent and rewrite the template every prompt passes through.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and MoonPay account for a sliver of the 500-plus peer acquisitions Crunchbase counts. The volume is coming from companies that cannot raise.
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Fortinet says the price was immaterial to its business. For teams budgeting a standalone AI red-teaming and guardrails tool, that is the number that matters.
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