Cybersecurity

Blackpanda raises $6.7M to minimize and fight cybercrime in APAC

September 27, 2024

Your cybercrime kung-fu pandas? Here’s Blackpanda. This Singaporean startup helps businesses in APAC minimize and respond to cyberattacks.

Now, they’ve raised $6.7M!

Investor check. Singtel Innov8, Gaw Capital Partners, and WI Harper Group joined in.

  • They last raised $15M early last year.
  • This takes their Series A to around $21.7M.

🤔 What they do

They’re here to offer accessible, comprehensive cyber protection to businesses across Asia—especially for SMEs.

They’ve built their own tech and IR (Incident Response) SaaS platform that’s priced at 10% of traditional IR.

  • It’s an end-to-end cyber emergency response.
  • Their proprietary mix of vulnerability scanning technology and insurtech data intelligently manages risk. This lets them offer premium services at a fraction of the cost.

🐼  What’s part of it

An IR-1 subscription with Blackpanda isn’t just about fighting cybercrime when it happens. It helps prevent it too!

Readiness. You’ll get continuous vulnerability scanning. Get dark web monitoring, fata security dashboards, reports, and more.

  • Proactively identify and address over 80,000 customer weaknesses through scans.

Response. You’re already stressed out during a cybercrime crisis—and other providers charge you hourly, making you even more stressed as every minute passes.

  • Get one annual credit for comprehensive response.
  • Access 24/7 cyber emergency response in your language for a fixed price.

Recovery. Have peace of mind because you know you have cyber insurance.

Tap into $5M you’ll get in comprehensive cyber coverage with Blackpanda Underwriting,

If you want more, they also have an even more comprehensive subscription called IR-X, and for more traditional folks, they have IRR (IR Retainers).

🌏  Asia tour

They’ll speed up their Asia expansion and keep improving their IR-1 cybersecurity solution.

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