Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round threatMetrix raised.
Investors whose own portfolio pages list threatMetrix, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
|---|---|
| Talu Ventures | its portfolio page ↗ |
The transaction that ended threatMetrix's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LexisNexis Risk Solutions | Acquisition | 2018 | $830m | SmartCompany, darwinium.com, Forbes Australia |
Companies threatMetrix acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Alisdair Faulkner | Co-founder and CPO (former) | SmartCompany, TechCrunch Venture, darwinium.com, Forbes Australia, Startup Daily |
| Pascal Podvin | CRO (former) | Startup Daily, SmartCompany |
| Reed Taussig | Chairman and CEO (former) | TechCrunch Venture, Forbes Australia |
Stories naming threatMetrix. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Roundup of eight Australian startup raises totalling $433m, topped by Employment Hero's $263m Series F and Skykraft's $120m round; Darwinium, Konvoy Kegs, The Martec and three Birchal crowdfunds complete the week.
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Fraud-prevention startup Darwinium, built by ThreatMetrix's co-founders, has announced an $18m Series A backed by USVP; the piece also recalls its 2022 seed round and ThreatMetrix's 2018 sale to LexisNexis.
Fraud-prevention platform Darwinium announces an $18m Series A with USVP at the helm and its earlier backers taking part, lifting lifetime funding to $26m; the CEO's former firm ThreatMetrix was bought by LexisNexis.
Searchable encryption startup CipherStash has raised a $3.3 million seed round led by AirTree and Nexus Venture Partners with several angel backers, as it prepares to expand into the US market.
Cybersecurity firm Kasada completed a $7 million Series A with CIA-backed venture fund In-Q-Tel as a new investor, adding to earlier backing from Main Sequence Ventures and Reinventure Group.