VentureScope LLC

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Mexico faces a deficit of 77,000 cybersecurity specialists against 40.6 billion attack attempts in just the first half of last year. Only 40% of companies even try to quantify their financial cyber risk exposure.

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For the first time in 3+ years, early-stage cybersecurity deal value globally has outpaced late-stage, hitting $2.1B in Q1.

The global median round size? $25M. More than double last year's figure.

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Quantum Bridge just raised $8M Series A to scale its quantum-safe key distribution protocol and the timing matters.

Q-Day, when quantum computers can crack today’s encryption, may be within the decade.

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#PostQuantum #Cybersecurity

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Our CEO Jason Chen was featured in @VirginiaBiz's Ecosystem Insights, sharing his take on where cybersecurity is heading: agentic AI, non-human identity security, and why the winners will be startups solving outcomes, not just selling AI.

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Cybercrime losses jumped 25%+ last year. The talent shortage is well-documented. And yet entry-level cybersecurity jobs are disappearing.

AI is handling the work that used to train the next generation of defenders.

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According to @WIRED, ShinyHunters didn't breach thousands of schools, they breached one platform and got thousands of victims for free. Canvas going down mid-finals across the U.S. wasn't a side effect. It was the strategy.

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According to @CyberSecDive, JPMorgan, Mastercard, AT&T, and Berkshire Hathaway Energy just launched a coalition to coordinate critical infrastructure protection, because they no longer trust the federal government to do it.

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According to @CyberSecDive, for every ransomware attack that gets disclosed, nine others don't. BlackFog identified 2,160 undisclosed attacks in Q1 2026, nearly ten times the number that were publicly reported.

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According to @SecurityWeek, CISA launched CI Fortify on the assumption that adversaries are already inside critical OT networks, and that in a geopolitical conflict, operators may need to sustain essential services for months without outside support.

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According to @NPR, the ad technology already on your phone is being used by ICE, DHS, and police departments nationwide to track people without a warrant, no spyware required.

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According to @SecurityWeek, cyber insurance data is finally giving CISOs what threat briefings never could: a way to translate security failures directly into dollar amounts that boards can't ignore.

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According to @SecurityWeek, Palo Alto Networks gave an AI system one instruction, exfiltrate sensitive data, and watched it autonomously scan, exploit, and improvise its way through a live cloud environment.

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According to @CyberSecDive, 57% of CIOs say employees are putting data security at risk through #AI misuse, yet only 37% of companies have visibility into which AI tools their staff are using.

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According to @SecurityWeek, 87% of intrusions now hit multiple attack surfaces simultaneously. AI has shrunk attack timelines by 100x, and critical infrastructure is owned by the private sector, not governments.

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According to @Fortune, while OpenAI navigates executive chaos and IPO uncertainty, Anthropic quietly hit a $30 billion annual revenue run rate. One company is managing drama. The other is pulling away.

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According to @SecurityWeek, researchers bypassed Apple Intelligence's safety guardrails with a 76% success rate across 200 million devices. Apple has patched it, but AI capability is clearly outpacing AI security.

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According to @WSJ, concerns are rising as cybersecurity struggles to keep pace with rapidly advancing systems. As these tools become more powerful and widely deployed, the challenge is shifting from capability to managing risk at scale.

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According to @FortuneMagazine, “vibe coding�� is speeding up software development, but exposing a new constraint: trust. As code is generated faster than ever, the challenge is shifting from writing to verifying it at scale.

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According to @WSJ, OpenAI is backing a new startup focused on autonomous agent capabilities. The investment signals an accelerating race to build systems that can operate independently and execute complex tasks at scale.

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@SecurityWeek reports a C-level executive was targeted in a sophisticated phishing attack using trusted infrastructure to evade detection. Attackers are increasingly leveraging legitimate services to make phishing harder to catch.

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