Tel Aviv-based Valence Security, which helps secure SaaS supply chains, raised a $25M Series A led by Microsoft’s M12, with Akamai and others participating (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Ox Security, which helps companies improve software supply chain security, raised a $34M seed from Microsoft’s M12 and others, and says it has 30 customers  —  The rise in software supply chain attacks, like the SolarWinds hack, prompted last year’s executive order from the Biden Administration …

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Tel Aviv-based 4M Analytics, which aims to be the Google Maps of the US’ underground utility infrastructure, raised $30M, bringing its Series A total to $45M  —  Subsurface infrastructure mapping startup 4M Analytics Ltd. said today it has closed on an additional $30 million in funding …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Endor Labs, which helps businesses select, secure, monitor, and maintain open-source dependencies at scale, emerges from stealth with $25M in seed financing  —  An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source.  In a 2018 survey by Tidelift …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Zesty, which helps cut cloud costs by automatically scaling resources to demand, raised a $75M Series B led by B Capital and Sapphire Ventures  —  Spending on the cloud shows no signs of slowing down.  In the first quarter of 2021, corporate cloud services infrastructure investment increased …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Groundcover, a performance monitoring service for cloud apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $24.5M  —  Groundcover, a performance monitoring platform for cloud apps, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led …

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft unveils Supply Chain Center software in preview to help customers track supply chains by combining data from its own programs plus Oracle and others  —  Microsoft Corp. unveiled software that will help customers track and coordinate supply-chain systems by combining data …