Backslash Security

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Backslash Security, an Israeli startup, has raised $8 million in seed-stage capital to develop technology that identifies and mitigates toxic code flows in cloud-native applications. The funding was provided by StageOne Ventures, First Rays Venture Partners, D. E. Shaw & Co., as well as prominent security practitioners and entrepreneurs. Backslash aims to bring modern tooling to application security teams by capturing the full context of cloud-native application security risk. Their product offers contextual visibility, automatic threat model visualization, automatic high-risk code prioritization, quick-fix remediation, and scale by policy alignment. The company plans to uplevel the cloud-native security game for AppSec teams. The article does not mention any specific partners, customers, valuation amount, layoffs, or acquisition amount. The event described in the article occurred on the day of the articles publication.