✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-25

This week’s highlights cover funding, from vCISO services to software supply chain attestation.

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🔐 + 💰 The stories that caught my eye this week were both ends of the security spectrum: Agentic AI advisory vCISO to attestation for a software supply chains

Techmeme: Chainguard, which helps companies secure software supply chains, raised a $356M Series D led by Kleiner and IVP at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.12B in 2024 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

By Allie Garfinkle / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: London and Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers a “virtual CISO” for SMBs, raised a $37M Series B, sources say at a $140M+ post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

By Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.