{"id":209323,"date":"2026-02-02T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/cyberfox-lands-9-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:46:14","slug":"cyberfox-lands-9-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/cyberfox-lands-9-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberFox Lands 9-Figure Backing to Grow SMB Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/cyberfox-lands-9-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity-a-30662\">CyberFox Lands 9-Figure Backing to Grow SMB Cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/cyberfox-lands-9-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity-a-30662\">https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/cyberfox-lands-9-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity-a-30662<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 18:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bankinfosecurity.com\">www.bankinfosecurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"article-sub-title\">CEO David Bellini Says Level Equity Investment Accelerates AI and Acquisitions<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"article-byline\"><br \/>\n                                                Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson)                                                    \u2022<br \/>\n                        <span class=\"text-nowrap\">February 2, 2026<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                David Bellini, CEO, CyberFox (Image: CyberFox)            <\/p>\n<p>A PAM and password management startup led by the co-founder of ConnectWise received growth financing to capitalize on the rise of vibe-coding in software development.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: On-Demand | NYDFS MFA Compliance: Real-World Solutions for Financial Institutions<\/p>\n<p>Tampa, Florida-based CyberFox plans to use the &#8220;nine-figure&#8221; growth investment from Level Equity to hire elite AI developers, re-architect products to be AI-native, expand internationally and pursue M&#038;A to broaden the security portfolio, said CEO David Bellini. While he didn&#8217;t disclose the investment amount, Bellini said the funding will support CyberFox&#8217;s strategy of balancing strong security with usability and affordability to become the &#8220;Palo Alto Networks of SMB.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had an exit with ConnectWise, so we kind of self-funded this and we weren&#8217;t looking,&#8221; Bellini told Information Security Media Group. &#8220;But these Level Equity guys came by, and we really started liking them. We started talking with them a lot, and they were a good fit for us. It just really felt right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CyberFox, formed in 2022 through the merger AutoElevate and Password Boss, employs 110 people and hadn&#8217;t disclosed any outside funding until now. The company has been led since inception by Bellini, who co-founded professional services automation giant ConnectWise in 1982, served as the company&#8217;s chief operating officer until June 2015 and sold the company to Thoma Bravo for a reported $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<h3>How CyberFox Will Tap Into AI-Driven Software Development<\/h3>\n<p>The accelerating&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/cyberfox-lands-9-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity-a-30662\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CyberFox Lands 9-Figure Backing to Grow SMB Cybersecurity https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/cyberfox-lands-9-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity-a-30662 Publish Date: 2026-02-02 18:14:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ismg-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/articles\/cyberfox-lands-nine-figure-backing-to-grow-smb-cybersecurity-image_large-5-a-30662.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-209323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209325,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209323\/revisions\/209325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}