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Frost Data Capital, Symantec Link On Cyber Security Startups

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San Juan Capistrano-based Frost Data Capital , the startup incubator led by security veteran Stuart Frost, has inked a major deal with Symantec , to launch and fund security and analytics startups. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Total Raised: $9.64mm.

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Wag Fetches Massive, $300M Funding Round

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Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking startup Wag has raised an enormous, $300M funding round, the company announced Tuesday morning. Schneider was most recently CEO of LifeLock, and had led LifeLock through its sale to Symantec last year; she also previously served at Yahoo! Wag said the funding comes from SoftBank Vision Fund.

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Is the Future of Cybersecurity in M&A?

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Last month Symantec announced its plans to buy Blue Coat for $4.7 In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. A Startup’s Opportunity to Thrive. billion (235 percent growth over 5 years). Why is this happening?

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New Year to Bring New Data Security Threats, Cyber Investor Warns

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Ackerman (pictured) is founder and managing director of San Francisco-based VC firm AllegisCyber , and co-founder of Fulton, MD-based DataTribe , which helps launch startups grounded in the expertise of former federal cybersecurity experts at the National Security Agency and other government units. His portfolio companies.

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$100M Round Turns San Diego’s Seismic into Region’s Newest Unicorn

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The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region. (In Seismic, an enterprise software company with ambitious growth plans, has raised $100 million in a Series E financing and added Microsoft chairman John W.

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IPO Scorecard: CrowdStrike Gains 70 Percent on First Trading Day

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That close pegged CrowdStrike’s market capitalization at $11.4 Trading began at $63.50 Wednesday, and reached a near-doubling of the company’s IPO price before settling down to close at $58 for a first-day bump of more than 70 percent. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.