EqualOcean was informed that Attack Surface management manufacturer ASANTS（矢安科技） recently announced the completion of the Pre-A round of financing. According to reports, the amount of this round of financing is at the level of tens of millions of yuan, the leading investor is Weizhi Mathematics, Xiaomiao Fund and Yuanqi Capital as the exclusive financial advisor.
Shanghai Ya An Technology Co., Ltd., hereinafter referred to as Ya An Technology, English ASants. Founded in April 2021. Focus on Attack Surface Management ( ASM ) direction.
In terms of products, ASANTS has focused on the Attack Surface Management ( ASM ) direction since its establishment, and has successively released the External Attack Surface Management System (EASM direction) and the Attack Breakthrough and Attack Simulation System (BAS direction)., Attack Surface assessment covering boundaries, networks, applications, hosts, personnel, data and other links to help enterprises discover and mitigate security risks.
It is reported that ASANTS's products have landed in dozens of flagship customers in industries such as finance, operators, and state-owned enterprises. In 2022, the company's SaaS product annual subscription service ( ARR ) will exceed 10 million.
EqualOcean consulted Data Discovery, a key IT indicator released by Gartner every year. From 2016 to 2020, the proportion of global information security and risk management technology and services spending to total IT spending fluctuated. In 2020, the proportion decreased by 0.1% to 4.9% from the previous year. Gartner pointed out that this does not mean that enterprises are spending less on security. It may be that the growth of security spending is lower than the growth of overall IT spending. Global IT security spending is expected to reach $189.20 billion in 2024
ASANTS has reached cooperation with a number of mainstream industry cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Private Cloud ecological partners. "'The essence of cyber security is confrontation'," said Guo Xin, founding partner of Wizhi Mathematics. In the past decade or so, the cyber security construction of large domestic enterprises has mainly been invested in the defensive side. Ya An Technology is the start-up company we have seen in this field with a mature concept. The core team of the company is a complete industry mature team with many years of cooperation; the founder has in-depth thinking about the positioning of the company. "
In the field of Attack Surface security head Huayun'an Information Technology（华云安）, GOUP SEC（360政企安全）and Mandiant（麦迪安网络安全公司）and so on are quite strong, foreign companies have US L-3 Communications Holdings（美国科学应用国际公司）, Science Applications International Corporation,RAYTO（美国雷杜斯公司） is also the most famous abroad Attack Surface management company.
This round of investment by ASANTS was led by Weizhi Mathematics, ZIZHU Fund（小苗基金） participated in the investment, and Yuanqi Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. Attack Surface management manufacturer recently announced the completion of the Pre-A round of financing; the amount of this round of financing has reached tens of millions of yuan.