Prelude Security has announced an additional $16 million investment led by Brightmind Partners, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $45 million. The funds will be used to commercialize their runtime memory protection technology, which detects and stops malicious code during execution, and to expand platform support and customer deployment.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prelude Security, the company pioneering threat exposure management that enables customers to preempt cyberattacks, today announced Josha Stella as the company’s Vice President of Cloud Security. Boasting over 25 years of distributed systems expertise in the technology and cloud sector, Stella will guide the innovation and development of cloud security capabilities for Prelude as they look to create further separation as the most complete threat management solution in the world. “We are very excited to bring Josha on board,” said Spencer Thompson, Chief Executive Officer at Prelude. “His background building customer-focused cloud security products is evident from his track record of product adoption at startups and global enterprises. Prelude, and our customers, are already feeling his impact in the areas of innovation and product delivery velocity.”. Stella joins Prelude from Trellix, a global leader in extended detection and response, where he served as Chief Architect

Stella joins Prelude from Trellix, a global leader in extended detection and response, where he served as Chief Architect.