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Anthropos raises US $ 2.7 million to help companies build the workforce of the future using AI

With offices in the US and Switzerland , Anthropos ’ pre-seed round is led by Switzerland-based , Founderful , with additional participation from Eden Ventures , Exor Ventures , Zanichelli Venture , Alessandro Rivetti and several angel investors across the EU and US .
“ People want to see a clear path to grow in their organisation and learn the exact skills they need to succeed there . At the same time , you can ’ t run your business without modern skills and a solution to constantly understand what your people can and cannot do . It ’ s a problem that is intensifying across all industries and it will get even more important as people need to adopt AI and make it part of their daily job ,” said Stefano Bellasio , CEO of Anthropos .

T alent shortage and skills development are among the top two priorities businesses are struggling to get to grips with today , according to Gartner . Helping them take control of the situation , start-up , Anthropos , has raised US $ 2.7 million to create a new way for companies to help employees evolve their skillsets in accordance with business needs while improving retention .

Anthropos was founded by Stefano Bellasio and Giacomo Marinangeli after building Cloud Academy , a cloud training platform they started in 2013 . The duo scaled the business to over US $ 25 million in ARR with Fortune 500 customers like Microsoft , Warner Media and Deloitte , and , in the process , realised the majority of their enterprise customers were struggling with the same interrelated problems : employee retention and skills development .

Global Checkmarx study reveals 63 % of participating organisations have fallen victim to a software supply chain attack in past two years

C heckmarx , a leader in cloud-native application security for the enterprise , has released its global research report , the 2024 State of Software Supply Chain Security .

Notably , the study found that 100 % of the large enterprises represented by 900 AppSec professionals responding from the United States , Europe and Asia-Pacific have been the victims of a software supply chain attack at some point .
“ Software supply chain security has become an active target of government regulatory and cybersecurity agencies and is top of mind for over half of global enterprises we surveyed ” said Amit Daniel , Chief Marketing Officer at Checkmarx .
The study revealed that : 56 % of respondents ’ organisational applications comprise open-source code packages and 75 % of respondents said they were either very concerned ( 39 %) or concerned ( 36 %) about software supply chain security .
“ It ’ s critical for CISOs and security leaders to make it easier for developers to understand the new risks and secure their entire software supply chain . ‘ Malicious ’ is much more than vulnerable . We have seen more attacks on the open-source ecosystem in the last two years than ever before with over 385,000 malicious packages detected to date by our own Checkmarx security research team . That ’ s why Checkmarx offers capabilities in Checkmarx One to allow developers to seamlessly add protection against such attacks .”
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