Sydney cloud-based cybersecurity startup Plerion has raised US$10 million (A$15m) in a Seed spherical led by Prosus Ventures, a South African-owned, Netherlands-listed international shopper web investor.

The spherical was supported by US funding agency Cercano and Atlassian Ventures. 

The funds will probably be used on accelerated product growth, expertise acquisition, and go-to-market methods. 

Plerion was based in late 2021 by Cloud Conformity founder Mike Rahmati (CEO), his work colleague Paul Garner (COO), and Pierre Liddle (CTO). It’s an all-in-one cloud safety platform that helps AWS, Azure and Google Cloud workloads, goals to make use of the raised funds to hurry up product growth, add extra workers and develop go-to-market methods.

Rahmati mentioned closing their Seed spherical was a testomony to the power of their staff and its work.

“This funding will empower us to boost our capabilities additional, rent top-tier expertise, and drive the adoption of our cutting-edge options to guard companies and people from cyber threats,” he mentioned. 

Sachin Bhanot, head of Southeast Asia & ANZ investments for Prosus Ventures mentioned the Australian startup enhances their current cybersecurity portfolio very properly, demonstrating spectacular early adoption and traction, whereas Cerano managing director MJ Yu, mentioned they “see immense potential” within the platform that Plerion is constructing.

Atlassian Ventures boss Peter Lenke mentioned Plerion’s all-in-one safety platform aligns with Atlassian’s give attention to easy safety.

“We imagine Plerion’s elegant answer will scale properly for our 200,000-plus cloud clients, particularly our enterprise clients,” he mentioned.