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Sym raises $9M

Sym, providers of a security workflow platform for engineers, has raised $9 million in a Series A funding round.

The investment was led by Amplify Partners. Angel investors Gerhard Eschelbeck, former CISO of Google, Sri Viswanath, CTO of Atlassian, and Jason Warner, CTO of GitHub also participated in the Series A round.

Sym says it will use the funds to expand its engineering team and scale its sales and marketing operations.

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