VulnCheck Raises $25M to Expand Channel Threat Intelligence

VulnCheck has raised $25 million in Series B funding as demand grows for exploit intelligence platforms that help enterprises and government agencies respond to vulnerabilities in real time.

The cybersecurity company plans to use the capital to expand its threat intelligence capabilities and scale its global channel partner program.

We spoke with Mike Deskewies, head of channels and strategic alliances, about how the funding will also scale VulnCheck’s global partner program and overall channel approach.

Funding targets AI-driven exploit intelligence and automation

VulnCheck provides a machine-consumable exploit intelligence dataset designed to power cybersecurity tools and automated response workflows.

Rather than relying on manual analyst triage, the company aggregates first-party evidence of exploitation and scans more than 500 million records tied to all published CVEs from more than 500 sources.

The data refreshes multiple times per day, delivering context on threat actor activity, ransomware associations, and proof-of-concept exploits circulating in the wild. 

“Fundamentally, VulnCheck is an exploit intelligence data company. We are not a platform, we don’t have a dashboard, we provide the real-time data to enable rapid mitigation services,” Deskewies said.

Exploit intelligence helps security teams prioritize real-world threats

The goal: enable security teams and vendors to prioritize vulnerabilities based on real-world exploitability without replacing existing tools or adding another dashboard-based view into the tech stack.

This comes as security teams face a wider attack surface and evolving threat types, causing ransomware and other risks to rise globally.

“I think we’re at the right place and the right time in the market to bring this and really scale it now globally,” said Deskewies.

VulnCheck builds early channel momentum with Optiv and Carahsoft

VulnCheck launched a formal partner program in 2025 and adopted a channel-first approach shortly after. 

According to Deskewies, the company currently works with large cyber resellers such as Optiv and government-focused providers like Carahsoft. 

As VulnCheck scales its own brand awareness, more partners are beginning to register deals and engage with the company.

Deskewies told Channel Insider the company is heavily invested in growing enterprise and federal accounts through the channel and building on the early momentum it’s experienced in the past year.

“We’re not after hundreds and hundreds of partners; it’s more about quality for us in finding the resellers and the partners who really understand what we do and what we bring,” Deskewies said.

Deskewies also said the company is learning from early success with partners as it scales its channel approach globally, with the Series B funding supporting an expansion into EMEA, with APAC to follow eventually.

VulnCheck plans partner enablement, certifications, and portal

Moving forward, Deskewies said his focus is on supporting partners through enablement resources, certification programs, and a partner portal experience to complement the already existing deal registration and margin support.

“We’ve got a great foundation, and we’re building out the enablement resources, but now it’s really time to scale this out from a program perspective and then take it global,” Deskewies said. 

“The portal needs to be built, and I am really focused on getting certifications together for our partners. That’s a big goal for us in the next phase,” he continued.

Overall, Deskewies said, VulnCheck is in a strong position to address needs that are becoming more apparent to channel partners and enterprise CISOs. 

Even still, he knows the company will continue to face an education gap as it explains how its data approach works and what it does, and doesn’t, provide. 

To Deskewies, the real value partners will find in VulnCheck is expansion; the company isn’t competing with other security vendors offering platforms, and Deskewies said it is actively building strategic alliances through integrations with solutions like Splunk to work with the tools organizations already have in their tech stacks.

“It’s just a natural services play: where risk-based vulnerability management ends, exploit intelligence begins,” Deskewies said. “We’re a complementary play to what organizations already need in terms of security, so for partners, there’s massive upsell and cross-sell opportunities here.”