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The round was led by by Tiger Global with Hyperwise Ventures and participation from existing investors, Pitango First and Peled Ventures

ARMO has raised $30 million in its Series A financing. The round will finance the company's endeavor of creating the first open source Kubernetes security platform. The round was led by Tiger Global with Hyperwise Ventures and participation from existing investors, Pitango First and Peled Ventures.

Lately, Kubernetes has become an important operating system for cloud-native applications. But there is no open source project that provides an end-to-end Kubernetes security solution. Besides, the current Kubernetes security tools are limited, fragmented, complex to manage and monitor.

"DevOps teams are responsible for the security of Kubernetes and they prefer to use an open source for it, but they also need the solution to be end-to-end and fit natively into their existing stack," said Shauli Rozen, CEO and co-founder of ARMO. "Companies are being forced to choose: either try to integrate several different open source tools together or commit to a proprietary solution that you can't adapt, access the code, influence the roadmap or contribute to."

ARMO's open source Kubernetes security platform is called Kubescape, which has surged in popularity worldwide. It has become one of the fastest-growing open source Kubernetes security tools with tens of thousands of users and more than 2,500 registered users.