Delve halts demos, Insight Partners scrubs investment post amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations

Delve halts demos, Insight Partners scrubs investment post amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations

Delve, a Y Combinator-backed compliance startup accused of fabricating certifications for its customers, has disabled the “book a demo” feature on its website. The controversy, detailed last week in a Substack post by an anonymous whistleblower known as “DeepDelver,” has apparently led Insight Partners to scrub an article explaining its $32 million investment in the…

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Delve halts demos, Insight Partners scrubs investment post amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations

Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’

An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and hefty fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that last year announced raising a $32 million Series A…

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Delve halts demos, Insight Partners scrubs investment post amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations

Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’

An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and hefty fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that last year announced raising a $32 million Series A…

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Marquis says over 672,000 people had personal and financial data stolen in ransomware attack

Marquis says over 672,000 people had personal and financial data stolen in ransomware attack

Marquis, a technology company used by hundreds of banks to analyze and visualize their customers’ data, says hundreds of thousands of people had their personal and sensitive financial information stolen in a ransomware attack last year. The Plano, Texas-based fintech company is notifying at least 672,075 people that hackers stole their information during the August…

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Wiz investor unpacks Google’s B acquisition

Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition

Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz this week — the biggest acquisition in Google’s history, as well as the largest ever acquisition of a venture-backed startup. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan, Sean O’Kane, and I were joined by Shardul Shah, a partner at Wiz’s largest shareholder…

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