{"id":89522,"date":"2024-10-01T02:40:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=89522"},"modified":"2024-10-01T02:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:51:28","slug":"cybersecurity-firm-proofpoint-considers-pre-ipo-funding-as-it-plots-a-return-to-public-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2024\/cybersecurity-firm-proofpoint-considers-pre-ipo-funding-as-it-plots-a-return-to-public-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint considers pre-IPO funding as it plots a return to public markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Privately-held cybersecurity firm Proofpoint is exploring tapping external investors for pre-IPO financing and the consideration of mergers and acquisitions of smaller cyber companies as it seeks a return to public markets in 2026, CEO Sumit Dhawan told CNBC. \u201cWe are looking at potentially exploring public markets sometime in the next 12 to 18 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/01\/cybersecurity-firm-proofpoint-explores-external-funding-as-it-eyes-ipo.html\">To read this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Privately-held cybersecurity firm Proofpoint is exploring tapping external investors for pre-IPO financing and the consideration of mergers and acquisitions of smaller cyber companies as it seeks a return to public markets in 2026, CEO Sumit Dhawan told CNBC. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89523,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89522\/revisions\/89523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}