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( ) LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2022-- Binarly Inc., a cybersecurity company building technology to address repeatable security failures in the firmware supply chain, today announced $3.6 million in seed funding from WestWave Capital and Acrobator Ventures. Prominent cybersecurity leaders Michael Sutton, Thomas Halvar Flake Dullien, Jamie Butler, Ryan Permeh, Bryson Bort, Pedram Amini, Chris Ueland and David Mandel from Emerging Ventures also joined as investors. Matrosov, a highly regarded researcher who is regularly credited with major vulnerability discoveries, is co-author of Rootkits and Bootkits, a seminal book that explains how to understand and counter sophisticated, advanced threats buried deep in a machine\x92s boot process or UEFI firmware. Using a combination of machine learning and deep code inspection at the binary level, Binarly enables security teams to have real visibility into hardware and firmware failures and a simple way to recover from sophisticated attacks below the operating system. We recognize that there are significant exposure issues in addressing firmware security vulnerabilities and we have strong conviction that Binarly will mitigate those concerns - both immediate and in the long term.\x94 - Warren \x93Bunny\x94 Weiss, Managing Partner, WestWave Capital.