Everybuddy Games team. (Everybuddy Games)
Everybuddy Games, an Israeli startup that develops online games, raised $15 million in a Series A funding round, led by Makers Fund with participation from Key1 Capital. The company is best known for the casual mobile game Lucky Buddies. Meanwhile, Veriti, another Israeli startup that offers a security platform that proactively and continually identifies and remediates security gaps, raised $12 million
Lucky Buddies is the first-ever casual adventure-slot game. The object is to help the Lucky Buddies defeat the greedy Pi-rats, and bestow the good luck back to its rightful owners.
Casual games are mobile games that can be played on a cell phone through an app that is designed for anyone to be able to play. To that end they have simple rules, shorter sessions, and a low barrier to entry.
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“At Everybuddy, we take pride in our work and in the fact that everybody on our close-knit team is able to make a significant impact with their professional and personal contributions,” said Everybuddy Games co-founder and CEO Adi Dagan. “Together we have built Lucky Buddies, a fast-paced casual game experience, wrapped in a unique hero-collection game, where players can progress by building and nurturing their unique team of Buddies.”
“We believe our team has captured the style of play that our players want: exciting, innovative and emotional entertainment experiences. The traction that we’re seeing since launch proves our theory that players love collecting and nurturing their Buddies as much as they love a fast-paced casual gaming experience.”
As for Veriti, the company was founded in 2021 by unit 8200 veterans and ex-Check Point executives Adi Ikan, CEO, and Oren Koren, CPO. Veriti amplifies security teams’ efforts to reduce risk and maximize their organization’s security posture. To do this, Veriti provides a consolidated security platform that proactively and continually identifies and remediates security gaps and misconfigurations across the entire infrastructure while ensuring business uptime.
Veriti says that cybersecurity is broken. Too many disparate, nonintegrated solutions deployed in every organization create murky visibility into the security infrastructure and introduce inherent management complexities and inadvertent security gaps. These gaps are the main drivers of security breaches, such as the notable case of Equifax.
Veriti says that it takes a holistic approach to both the security infrastructure and the IT organization to maximize security and the ROI of every deployed solution. The platform helps IT organizations understand the status of their cybersecurity investment, how and which business applications are being impacted by security solutions, and how to improve both with effective automation and machine learning.
“The premise that security professionals are doomed to struggle with complexity and operational inefficiency to secure the enterprise is false,” said Adi Ikan, CEO, and co-founder of Veriti. “We have a well-versed team focused on creating a streamlined, frictionless management experience for all security teams to reduce effort and time spent in manual oversight. Insight Partners, NFX, Amiti, and Merlin Ventures all have vast resources and experience in cybersecurity, and we are extremely excited to be working with them as we continue to redefine security posture management on a larger scale.”
