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Dallas Cyber Risk Intelligence Firm iCOUNTER Emerges From Stealth With $30M Series A

by Lance Murray | Jul 16, 2025

Backed by SYN Ventures and five years of development, the Dallas-based cybersecurity company is led by threat intelligence pioneer John Watters. iCOUNTER aims to help organizations detect and deflect highly targeted, AI-enabled attacks—before they become “Patient Zero.”

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Conifers.ai Expands U.S. Headquarters in Dallas, Appoints 3 Industry Veterans to Board

by Lance Murray | Apr 30, 2025

The startup, which emerged from stealth in January, is an agentic AI platform designed to transform security operations. Based in Dallas and Tel Aviv, it's now actively hiring in Dallas after more than doubling its headcount in recent months.

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Dallas- and Tel Aviv-Based Cybersecurity Platform Launches with $25M, Harnesses Agentic AI

by Lance Murray | Jan 29, 2025

Backed by SYN Ventures, Picus Capital, and others, Conifers.ai says its CognitiveSOC platform enables customers to use agentic AI as a "force multiplier" to rapidly investigate security incidents at scale with the tools and portals they already have.

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