Global investment firm Carlyle has led a $55m Series B investment round in Hack The Box, a cybersecurity upskilling and talent assessment platform, with a global community of more than 1.7 million members and a portfolio of more than 1,500 enterprise, government and university customers.
The new investment will aim to accelerate Hack The Box’s growth trajectory with a focus on further building out its “gamer-first” solutions offering, with ultra-realistic coding gameplay.
Carlyle has a longstanding track record of infrastructure software and cybersecurity investments, including in 1E, Eggplant, ManTech, Coalfire, iC Consult, NetMotion, ITRS, Booz Allen Hamilton and Automic Software (formerly known as UC4).