Company profile
Blackwall
Web traffic security sold through hosting, cloud and managed service providers (formerly BotGuard): bot mitigation, DDoS protection, WAF, load balancing, server-side encryption and controls for agentic AI traffic,…
- Status
- PrivateListed on CyberMerge Startup Radar (private vendors), snapshot Oct 20, 2026
- Valuation
- $2.2B Oct 20, 2026CyberMerge Funding Tracker — TechCrunch Oct 20: led by AVP with Dawn Capital, MMC Ventures and Tera Ventures; executive chairman Roi Carthy says the valuation is 4x its 2025 round. Source
- Latest funding
- Series C · $100M Oct 20, 2026TechCrunch Source
- HQ
- Estonia-founded / Europe (Startup Radar)
- CyberMerge Index
- #1 · score 96 Oct 20, 2026
- Last updated
Categories
Funding & valuation
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2026 | Series C | $100M | $2.2B | TechCrunchTechCrunch Oct 20: led by AVP with Dawn Capital, MMC Ventures and Tera Ventures; executive chairman Roi Carthy says the valuation is 4x its 2025 round. |
Latest signals
- Startup Radar · Application Security · snapshot Oct 20, 2026 20 Oct 2026: raised a $100M Series C at a $2.2B valuation, led by AVP with existing investors Dawn Capital, MMC Ventures and Tera Ventures; TechCrunch says the valuation is about four times its last mark. Funds expansion into 12 regions and new traffic security products for hosting and cloud providers. Filters billions of requests a day for millions of websites (Business Wire / TechCrunch / Tech Funding News). Source
Rankings
- CyberMerge Index · Oct 20, 2026 #1 · score 96. Funding (today): $100M Series C led by AVP at a $2.2B valuation, about 4x its 2025 round (per TechCrunch). Sells bot, AI-agent and DDoS traffic controls through hosting, MSP and cloud providers who white-label it, so it rides the channel instead of fighting Cloudflare and… Source Daily momentum, not market cap.
Competitors
Same-category peers from CyberMerge Research maps, Startup Radar and What's The Use tags.
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Related CyberMerge stories
On the desk
- Startup Radar · Oct 20, 2026 Blackwall, the Estonia-founded web traffic security company, raised a $100M Series C led by AVP at a $2.2B valuation, about four times its 2025 mark. TechCrunch / Tech Funding News
Figures appear only as recorded in CyberMerge data, with source and date. “Undisclosed” means no published figure in our data. Editorial, not investment advice. Last updated . Spot an error? Tell the desk.