– Nozomi Networks, a company offering cybersecurity and operational visibility services for industrial control systems, announced that it secured $100 million in a series D funding round led by Triangle Peak Partners, with participation from Forward Investments, Honeywell Ventures, Keysight Technologies, Porsche Digital, Telefónica Ventures, the U.S. government-affiliated In-Q-Tel, and others.
– The company says it’ll use the capital to help scale its product development initiatives as well as its go-to-market approach globally. Specifically, Nozomi will expand its sales, marketing, and partner enablement efforts and enhance its products to address new challenges in operational technology and internet of things (IoT) security markets, CEO Edgard Capdevielle said.
– Ransomware and malware attacks on organizations and infrastructure are at an all-time high.

– Mindtech Global, a Sheffield, UK-based training platform for robots, raised £2.3m in funding.
– The round was led by NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), with Deeptech Labs and In-Q-Tel participating.
– The company intends to use the funds to build its team in Yorkshire and expand sales of its product worldwide.

– ImmuneID, Inc. has raised $50m in Series A financing.
– The round was led by new investor Alta Partners and included new investors Alexandria Venture Investments, Redwood Capital Investments, Section 32 and Tekla Capital Management.
– All existing investors participated in the financing, including Arch Venture Partners, Longwood Fund, Pitango HealthTech, In-Q-Tel, Xfund and others.
– Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the development of therapeutic candidates to treat autoimmune diseases, severe allergies, cancer and infectious diseases.

– Cigent technology announced the close of a $7.6M Series A funding with In-Q-Tel, CyberJunction, WestWave Capital, and several prominent individual investors participating.
– The funding enables Cigent to commercialize and bring to market Cigent Data Defense. This breakthrough approach protects companies and individuals from ransomware, data theft, and malicious insider attacks, ending 30 years of failure by the cybersecurity industry.
– Cigent Data Defense combines Cigent’s Dynamic Data Defense Engine (D³E®) software with Cigent Secure SSDs™ and takes a different approach to protect against data theft and ransomware than previous cybersecurity technology.

– Pison Technology has closed a $7M Series A round of funding led by Lavrock Ventures, with participation by Bose Venture Capital, In-Q-Tel, and Decisive Point.
– The company will use the funding to launch market ready products, with a series of ecosystem releases beginning in late 2021.
– Featuring touchless control and multiple interfaces, Pison’s wearable devices make controlling the physical and digital world as simple as a thought.
– Founded in 2016, the funding announcement comes as the company transitions from R&D to market readiness.
– Pison is shepherding in the next phase of gesture control – deep tech that uses the human body’s electrical system to control robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, personal electronics, and more.