PYMNTS.com December 22, 2025

Venture capitalists poured hundreds of millions of dollars into business efficiency tools in mid-December, leading large funding rounds for startups promising to untangle corporate operations.

Companies like Cyera, Tebra, Mythic and more secured capital to deploy platforms that centralize fragmented data and reduce administrative overhead across regulated industries.

Securing and Organizing Enterprise Information

Cyera raised $400 million in a funding round led by Blackstone, valuing the cybersecurity company at roughly $9 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Dec. 16).

Cyera helps large organizations understand where their data lives across cloud platforms, software applications and internal systems and whether that data is being accessed and protected appropriately.

As enterprises move more operations to the cloud and adopt AI tools that...

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