Israeli cybersecurity co Cybereason lays off 100

Israeli cybersecurity firm Cybereason is shedding 100 workers together with a number of dozen in Israel. Cybereason has developed cybersecurity methods for shielding endpoints like computer systems and telephones – a area by which it competes with Israeli firm SentinelOne (NYSE: S) and Crowdstrike (Nasdaq: CRWD).

Earlier than the present spherical of layoffs, Cybereason had 1,500 workers in Israel and worldwide. In line with LinkedIn, the corporate’s workforce has grown by 61% over the previous 12 months and by 122% previously two years. Solely final month, Cybereason introduced that it was establishing a second growth heart in Israel in Beersheva so as to add to its current heart in Tel Aviv. However in current weeks, the tech market local weather has undergone a big change with the corporate pressured to enhance effectivity and profitability and never solely to develop as shortly as potential.

Cybereason has raised over $700 million thus far together with $275 million in its final financing spherical in July 2021 at an organization valuation of greater than $3 billion. In February, “Reuters” reported that Cybereason had filed confidentially with the US Securities and Change Fee (SEC) for a Wall Avenue IPO at an organization valuation of $5 billion.

However with the market falling sharply since then, it now looks like the window for IPOs has utterly closed, though it’s unclear whether or not the corporate nonetheless believes it could possibly elevate cash if it tried to streamline. It could be that Cybereason is trying to scale back the amount of money that it burns as a result of it will not be capable of go public within the close to future.

Cybereason was based in 2021 by CEO Lior Div, Yossi Naar and Yonatan Striem-Amit. The corporate has but to reply to the report.

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