KKR leads Semperis’ round of funding with a total of $ 200+ million. Semperis which is in accelerated growth attributed to the unique ability of its solutions to protect and recover from cyber attacks based on corporate identity systems combined with the company’s expertise in responding to cyber incidents.
Semperis, which specializes in cyber defense focusing on corporate identities, announced today that it has raised more than $ 200 million in Round C led by KKR, featuring Ten Eleven Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Atrium Health Strategic Fund, Tech Pioneers Fund and existing investors including Insight Partners. The new recruitment will help the company accelerate the recruitment of employees in all functions around the world to better support its expanding customer base, with an emphasis on the response team to corporate identity-oriented events.
Identity systems such as Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD, which are used by more than 90% of organizations, are under constant attack. With Semperis’ multi-layered defense approach before, during and after an attack, it offers the industry’s most comprehensive security technology for hybrid identity systems and other identity systems, combined with event response expertise.
“From day one, Semperis has set itself the task of being a Force for good,” said Semperis CEO Mickey Berzman, who co-founded Semperis with Guy Tabrowski and Matan Lieberman. Choose between two bad options: pay off criminals or quit. “With the combined experience that KKR, Ten Eleven Ventures, Insight Partners and other valued investors in this round bring to high-growth cyber security companies, we have an elite group of strategic partners in our corner to help advance our mission.”
KKR invests in Semperis through its Next Generation Technology Growth Fund II, a fund dedicated to stock investment opportunities for technology growth. Ben Pederson, a director on KKR’s Tech Growth team, has joined Semperis’ board.
“A very dedicated customer base, including a growing number of the world’s largest organizations, trusts Semperis to protect their critical identity systems from cyber attacks,” Ben Pederson said. “The vast majority of attacks today are identity-based, and identity details are aimed at penetrating organizations. Semperis’s leading technology for identity and expertise response response provides innovation, and KKR is proud to support their mission.”
In addition to increasing its staff, Semperis devotes much of its recruitment to research and development to drive further innovation in the Identity Systems Protection market, focusing on its Directory Services Protector platform, which is classified as an identity threat detection and response solution. (ITDR) The solution is also included in the leading cyber security trends for 2022, as the misuse of identity information is the primary method that attackers use to access systems and achieve their goals.
“Semperis drives innovation in one of the most inconceivable but critical areas of cyber security: protecting the identity system,” said Ten Eleven Ventures founder and general partner Mark Hatfield. “This new round of recruitment, among the largest in the cyber field so far in 2022, will allow Semperis to continue to grow its strong position in this important market segment.”
“We are excited to participate in another round of recruitment with Semperis and continue to offer support for our successful and reciprocal strategic partnership,” said Insight Partners CEO Teddy Vardi. Customers have complete protection of their identity systems. ”
Frost & Sullivan presented Semperis with the Leadership Award in Competitive Strategy for 2022, based on innovation and influence for the company’s clients in the Active Directory global security and recovery market.
“Semperis has unrivaled experience in preparing for hacking and responding to Active Directory-related events and other identity-based cyberattacks,” said Frost & Sullivan Industry Principal at Frost & Sullivan. “Semperis’ solutions-based approach focuses not only on their cutting-edge technology to meet customer challenges, but also on best practices and training for people and processes that set them apart from their competitors.”