The Series A round led by Tiger Global will help ARMO expand, open additional offices, and hire globally to bring more developers to work on its Kubescape project
ARMO is engaged in building the Kubescape security platform for the Kubernetes community. (Credit: mohamed Hassan from Pixabay)
Israel-based start-up ARMO has raised $30m in a Series A funding round to build Kubescape, an end-to-end open-source Kubernetes security platform.
The funding round was led by Tiger Global and included Hyperwise Ventures as well.
ARMO’s existing investors Peled Ventures and Pitango First also took part in the round.
The Israeli start-up claimed that the funding will help it ensure an open, transparent and completely customisable security solution for the whole Kubernetes community.
Tiger Global partner John Curtius said: “Kubernetes is open source, and Kubernetes security should be open source too, following the same culture of transparency and collaboration.
“ARMO is unique because they’re committed to a complete open source security solution for Kubernetes, so everyone can benefit from – and contribute to – the most secure platform available.”
Kubescape is said to offer multi-cloud Kubernetes single pane of glass, including security compliance, risk analysis, role-based access control (RBAC) visualiser, and image vulnerabilities scanning.
It scans configuration files, Kubernetes clusters and worker nodes to check for misconfigurations and known vulnerabilities based on MITRE ATT&CK, NSA-CISA hardening guidance, and other DevOps frameworks and vulnerability databases.
Its RBAC module visualises the connection of roles and privileges between various parts of a Kubernetes cluster.
With the proceeds from the Series A round, ARMO plans to expand, open additional offices, and recruit globally to bring more developers to work on Kubescape. The Israeli start-up will also use the investment to expand its product as well as marketing teams.
ARMO CEO and co-founder Shauli Rozen said: “DevOps teams are responsible for the security of Kubernetes and they prefer to use an open source for it, but they also need the solution to be end-to-end and fit natively into their existing stack.
“Companies are being forced to choose: either try to integrate several different open-source tools together or commit to a proprietary solution that you can’t adapt, access the code, influence the roadmap or contribute to.”