{"id":3264,"date":"2025-02-05T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/brisbane-ethical-hackers-score-100m-payday-after-uk-sale\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:09:00","slug":"brisbane-ethical-hackers-score-100m-payday-after-uk-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/brisbane-ethical-hackers-score-100m-payday-after-uk-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane \u2018Ethical Hackers\u2019 Score $100M Payday After UK Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"A\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">According to the Australian Financial Review, two Brisbane entrepreneurs, Michael <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.linkedin.com\/in\/michaelgianarakis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gianarakis<\/a> and Shubham Shah, have sold their cybersecurity start-up, Assetnote, to a UK-based, private equity-backed firm for more than $100 million.<\/h2>\n<p>The duo, who describe themselves as ethical hackers, founded Assetnote in 2018 to help major companies identify vulnerabilities in their cybersecurity. Since then, they\u2019ve built a profitable business, attracting high-profile clients like Atlassian, Qantas, and Canva.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer, Searchlight Cyber, is a dark web intelligence company owned by Charlesbank Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. Searchlight Cyber works with government and corporate clients to track and disrupt ransomware groups and cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n$100 Million, Assetnote, Atlassian, Australian Entrepreneurs, Business Acquisition, Canva, Charlesbank Capital Partners, cybercriminals, cybersecurity, Dark Web Intelligence, Ethical Hackers, Here are the tags in comma-delimited format: Brisbane, Michael Gianarakis, Private Equity, Qantas, ransomware, Searchlight Cyber, Shubham Shah, Start-up Success, UK Sale<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/brisbane-ethical-hackers-score-100m-payday-after-uk-sale\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Australian Financial Review, two Brisbane entrepreneurs, Michael Gianarakis and Shubham Shah, have sold their cybersecurity start-up, Assetnote, to a UK-based, private equity-backed firm for more than $100 million. The duo, who describe themselves as ethical hackers, founded Assetnote in 2018 to help major companies identify vulnerabilities in their cybersecurity. Since then, they\u2019ve &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Brisbane \u2018Ethical Hackers\u2019 Score $100M Payday After UK Sale\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/brisbane-ethical-hackers-score-100m-payday-after-uk-sale\/#more-3264\" aria-label=\"Read more about Brisbane \u2018Ethical Hackers\u2019 Score $100M Payday After UK Sale\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/depositphotos-263293556-xl_orig.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}