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SecurityScorecard raises $27.5 million Series C round

SecurityScorecard, a company that provides security ratings, has raised $27.5 million in Series C funding. The financing was led by Nokia Growth Partners (NGP) with participation from Moody’s Corporation, AXA Strategic Ventures, and Intel Capital. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures (GV), Boldstart Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and Evolution Equity Partners also participated.

The SecurityScorecard platform provides a outside-in view of the security posture of a company’s entire ecosystem, including their IT infrastructure as well as third and fourth-party vendors. The platform continuously monitors the security posture of more than 200,000 enterprises and government agencies across the globe and evaluates them based on hundreds of indicators of compromise, says the company.

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