IT cybersecurity management company Metabase Q has announced an expanded Series A round of funding of $11 million. SYN Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in innovative security companies, led both A rounds, and former Mandiant President and COO John Watters, who serves as an independent director at Metabase Q, participated in both.
Robert Rodriguez, venture partner at SYN Ventures and chairman and founder of SINET, a community of senior-level cybersecurity professionals, will join Metabase Q’s board of directors. The company will use the new funding to meet record customer demand and expand its go-to-market.
To further reduce risk, has added a new layer of proactive security, ZeroAPT Mitigator, to Batuta. Batuta monitors and manages remote endpoints and cybersecurity technologies, empowering IT and cybersecurity teams with cyber risks, operational and technology efficiencies, and actionable insights.
That way, teams can proactively reduce the likelihood and impact of an attack, and if an attack does occur, increase response and recovery time by 10x. Since its launch last year, Batuta has grown to over 50 enterprise customers and is deployed in 45 countries.
The increasing complexity of cybersecurity management and overlapping tools have led to significant inefficiencies, rising costs, and security gaps across organizations. Businesses also struggle to maintain consistency and effectiveness in their cybersecurity posture, especially when managing multiple locations, subsidiaries, and acquired companies. However, businesses can mitigate over 70% of their cybersecurity risks through proactive endpoint security and foundational practices.
Metabase Q’s Batuta is a cloud-native, multi-tenant endpoint management platform that combines IT and cybersecurity capabilities to proactively strengthen an enterprise’s security posture. The platform:
1.) 10x improvement in the speed of patching and execution of cybersecurity and IT technology commands, dramatically improving the speed of response to incidents and remediation actions.
2.) Identify unused software licenses, allowing companies to consolidate technology to reduce costs while increasing protection.
3.) Ensure your current cybersecurity tools are working effectively and reduce the risk of a breach due to endpoints with disconnected or outdated EDR agents.
4.) Centralize cybersecurity management across locations, including subsidiaries and acquired companies, to ensure consistency and reduce operational overhead.
Batuta features a lightweight websocket agent that runs with user-level privileges without any installation dependencies, and the websockets connect through an SSL tunnel to a central console from which orchestrated commands and scripts can be executed.Unlike EDR, it does not make decisions based on behavior or signatures.
Important Quotes:
“Visibility into endpoint devices is essential to understanding and strengthening an organization’s overall security posture, regardless of the protective measures in place. Effective collaboration between IT and security teams is key to operational rigor, and tools that provide shared insights, like Metabase Q’s Batuta, can significantly improve a company’s ability to proactively manage cybersecurity risk.”
-Chirag Mehta, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
“Metabase Q’s Batuta is a game changer. It’s amazing what one product can do. Batuta offers much more than cyber security. It gives you a full management console to control your endpoints and gives you confidence that the cyber security technologies you’re running are in place to stay protected. Batuta is now one of the most used technologies within our organization for both monitoring and enforcement, and we see that as a really big advantage. When you start measuring the speed at which you can actually deploy, there’s no comparison. Batuta is in a class of its own. Integrations and updates across 30+ countries that were previously time-consuming and tedious now take just minutes.”
– Juan Manuel Marques, Global CIO at ECOM, a Swiss-based global multi-billion dollar goods and services group specializing in coffee, cocoa and cotton
“We developed Batuta leveraging what we’ve learned from thousands of organizations across all industries and levels of complexity. Every company runs differently, but they face the same fundamental problem of centralized management and control of multiple operating systems and cybersecurity tools. They want diversity for reliability and defense in depth, but often face visibility and integration challenges. We recognized that the greatest opportunity in cybersecurity risk mitigation comes not from better detection engines, but from ensuring the fundamentals are in place through proactive security.”
– Louise Ireland, Co-Founder, President and COO of MetabaseQ
“Metabase Q’s Batuta has transformed our cybersecurity approach. Batuta centralizes the management of our IT infrastructure and cybersecurity technologies, provides unparalleled visibility and control, and has significantly improved the efficiency of our incident response. By incorporating dynamic enhancements based on the latest attack techniques, we are able to answer the C-suite question: ‘Are we protected against this threat?’ Metabase Q allows us to focus on our core business while ensuring our digital assets are protected.”
– Sérgio Eddy, Chief Risk Officer at Grupo Financiero Multiva, the largest financial holding company headquartered in Mexico
“Investments in security are greater than ever, yet many fundamentals are still missing. Security tools are often not properly deployed or do not work as expected, and many companies lack sufficient security coverage across their entire organization. Metabase Q addresses these key challenges with Batuta, providing unparalleled visibility and control, and end-to-end cybersecurity certainty. The company’s approach has been transformative to date, as evidenced by the incredible support from enterprise customers. We believe this is truly a pioneering approach that is redefining industry standards.”
– Jay Leake, Managing Partner at SYN Ventures, former CISO at Blackstone
“Cybersecurity knows no borders, and we want to make the world safer. We’re focused on helping businesses manage their security so they can focus on what really matters: growing their business.”
-Mauricio Benavides, Co-Founder and CEO of Metabase Q
