PARIS - Tuesday, 11. June 2024 AETOSWire Print (BUSINESS WIRE) -- YesWeHack, the global Bug Bounty and vulnerability management platform, announces a €26 million Series C funding round. In a world where cyber risks are more strategic and complex than ever, YesWeHack will use this funding to invest in Artificial Intelligence, launch new innovative solutions and expand its international growth. The round is led by Wendel, alongside new investors such as Adelie and Seventure Partners, as well as reinvestment from Bpifrance, Open CNP* and Eiffel Investment Group. YesWeHack is also delighted to welcome Renaud Deraison, Co-Founder of Tenable and Senior Advisor to Wendel Growth, to its Board of Directors. YesWeHack is the leading security testing solution for organisations of all sizes. Its Bug Bounty platform mobilises a community of tens of thousands ethical hackers to test the security of its customers in an agile and cost-effective way, thus reducing their attack surface. With more than 500 customers across 40 countries, YesWeHack covers all business sectors, including: 70% of “CAC 40” ** companies Global organisations such as Louis Vuitton, Decathlon and Tencent Telecoms companies such as Orange, Ooredoo and Telenor Unicorns such as Contentsquare, Doctolib and Blablacar Public institutions in countries such as France, Spain, Canada and Singapore Since its last funding round in 2021, YesWeHack has increased by six times its annual recurring revenue and tripled the number of ethical hackers registered on its platform. The company has also developed integrated pentest and attack surface management solutions, offering customers a unified approach to monitoring their online risks and vulnerabilities. Guillaume Vassault-Houlière, CEO and Co-Founder of YesWeHack, commented: “This funding round is a vote of confidence in our commitment to excellence and our ambitious vision. Thanks to this investment, YesWeHack will deliver even higher levels of customer satisfaction and continue developing innovative solutions in one of the most dynamic segments of cybersecurity. We would like to thank our investors, both longstanding and new, and are honoured by their trust.” Antoine Izsak, Head of Growth Equity at Wendel, said: “Bug bounty is now recognised as a must by some of the companies most exposed to the cyber threat. We are delighted to be working with the European leader YesWeHack, which stands out for its quality of service, compliance with regulations and the relevance of its technological roadmap for customers who are increasingly overwhelmed by the growing volume of vulnerabilities." Renaud Deraison, Co-Founder of Tenable, Senior Advisor to Wendel Growth and new member of the Board of Directors added: "YesWeHack's community of experts is one of the most qualified in the world to continuously test the security of its customers' digital infrastructure. I'm honoured to join YesWeHack's Board of Directors and look forward to contributing to the company's mission alongside Guillaume and his team." *The Corporate Venture Capital fund of CNP Assurances. **The CAC 40 is Paris’ main stock market index. About YesWeHack YesWeHack is a leading Bug Bounty and Vulnerability Management Platform. Founded by ethical hackers in 2015, YesWeHack connects organisations worldwide to tens of thousands of ethical hackers, who uncover vulnerabilities in websites, mobile apps, connected devices and digital infrastructure. Our Bug Bounty Programs benefit from in-house triage, personalised support, a customisable model and results-based pricing. Clients include Tencent, Swiss Post, Telenor, Ooredoo, Orange, the French Ministry of Armed Forces and several other governments worldwide. The YesWeHack platform offers a range of integrated, API-based solutions: Bug Bounty (crowdsourcing vulnerability discovery), Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (creating and managing a secure channel for external vulnerability reporting), Pentest Management (managing pentest reports from all sources) and Attack Surface Management (continuously mapping online exposure and detecting attack vectors). For more information, visit: www.yeswehack.com This transaction was carried out with the expert support of Trachet Ltd. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240610793319/en/ Permalink https://www.aetoswire.com/en/news/1106202439878 Contacts Press press@yeswehack.com

LAS VEGAS - Friday, 07. June 2024 AETOSWire Rimini Street provides Brazilian retailer, Americanas, with proven processes and tools and leading SLAs to drive operational efficiencies across SAP ECC 6, S/4HANA and RISE platforms, enabling competitive advantage and business results (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software, and a Salesforce and AWS partner, today announced that Americanas Group has selected Rimini Street and its Rimini Manage™ for SAP service to take over governance, management, control and operation of the 95-year-old retailer's vast, complex and evolving SAP system landscape that spans corporate, e-commerce and logistic platforms, and more than 1,600 stores across Brazil. “Choosing Rimini Street’s premium services is part of our strategy to seek partners who can strengthen our environments and allow us to increase operational efficiency and robustness, with continuous improvements. We count on Rimini Street to undertake relevant activities and contribute to our strategic vision and long-term planning. This aligns with Americanas’ execution discipline, which is part of our DNA: with clear guidelines, we have the capacity to implement quickly,” says Sérgio Barros, CTO of Americanas. “Partnering with Rimini Street, we can shift the focus of our internal IT team from day-to-day governance, management and operation of our SAP systems to developing ways to engage our customers through new and innovative shopping experiences.” Partnered to Improve Competitive Advantage and Efficiency Americanas aims to meet the consumption demands of Brazilian families in a simple, uncomplicated way. Its sales strategy leverages an omni-channel sales model that includes an extensive network of physical stores spread across more than 800 cities across the country to the Americanas app, offering a unique and convenient experience. “One of the key reasons we sought out Rimini Street was to strengthen our IT processes, and ensure we are not only following best practices, but creating long-lasting solutions that help us achieve our goals of improved operational, competitive and financial results,” said Barros. “For example, instead of wasting labor, time and cost addressing recurring issues again and again, the expert engineers of Rimini Street help us identify the root cause of recurring issues and fix them once - permanently and efficiently.” Rimini Street Builds and Operates a New SAP Center of Excellence The Americanas IT infrastructure is powered by a robust SAP ERP, digital commerce, advertising and financial services platform. To support their current and future operational needs, Americanas will require extreme agility and robustness across its entire mission-critical SAP landscape that cover SAP ECC 6, S/4HANA and RISE platforms. Rimini Street is helping Americanas meet these needs and ensure high availability of SAP system functionality with a focused, experienced Rimini Street team who is implementing and executing new governance across the SAP landscape with the building and operation of a new SAP Center of Excellence (SAP CoE). This implements new oversight governance procedures, clearer operating strategies, optimized processes, more efficient support tools, tightened security, process monitoring, improved quality control and a more aggressive focus on operating cost reduction. “Today, more than ever, retailers and other organizations are under pressure to rethink how their current IT infrastructure meets their current and future needs for operational flexibility and IT labor, time and cost optimization that will enable improved competitive and operational results,” said Edenize Maron, group vice president, Rimini Street, Latin America. "We are proud to partner with the iconic Americanas and, as with all our clients, Rimini Street's mission at Americanas is to be the specialized and vendor-agnostic IT partner focused on improved system operation and labor, time and cost optimization. We are achieving this mission by building and operating a new SAP CoE to oversee the operation, optimization and changes needed to help Americanas focus on its customers current and future desires and achieve its competitive and business improvement goals.” Explore the full Rimini Street portfolio of ultra-responsive, trusted and proven support, managed services, security, integration, observability, professional services and Rimini ONE™ end-to-end outsourcing solutions for SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and VMware applications to support competitive advantage, profitability and growth. About Rimini Street, Inc. Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software and a Salesforce and AWS partner. The Company has operations globally and offers a comprehensive family of unified solutions to run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application, database, and technology software, and enables clients to achieve better business outcomes, significantly reduce costs and reallocate resources for innovation. To date, over 5,500 Fortune 500, Fortune Global 100, midmarket, public sector, and other organizations from a broad range of industries have relied on Rimini Street as their trusted enterprise software solutions provider. To learn more, please visit riministreet.com, and connect with Rimini Street on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. (IR-RMNI) Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements included in this communication are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “currently,” “estimate,” “expect,” “future,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “outlook,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seem,” “seek,” “should,” “will,” “would” or other similar words, phrases or expressions. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our expectations of future events, future opportunities, global expansion and other growth initiatives and our investments in such initiatives. These statements are based on various assumptions and on the current expectations of management and are not predictions of actual performance, nor are these statements of historical facts. These statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties regarding Rimini Street’s business, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, adverse developments in and costs associated with defending pending litigation or any new litigation, including the disposition of pending motions to appeal and any new claims; additional expenses to be incurred in order to comply with injunctions against certain of our business practices and the impact on future period revenue and costs; changes in the business environment in which Rimini Street operates, including the impact of any recessionary economic trends and changes in foreign exchange rates, as well as general financial, economic, regulatory and political conditions affecting the industry in which we operate and the industries in which our clients operate; the evolution of the enterprise software management and support landscape and our ability to attract and retain clients and further penetrate our client base; significant competition in the software support services industry; customer adoption of our expanded portfolio of products and services and products and services we expect to introduce; our ability to sustain or achieve revenue growth or profitability, manage our cost of revenue and accurately forecast revenue; estimates of our total addressable market and expectations of client savings relative to use of other providers; variability of timing in our sales cycle; risks relating to retention rates, including our ability to accurately predict retention rates; the loss of one or more members of our management team; our ability to attract and retain additional qualified personnel, including sales personnel, and retain key personnel; challenges of managing growth profitably; our need and ability to raise additional equity or debt financing on favorable terms and our ability to generate cash flows from operations to help fund increased investment in our growth; risks associated with global operations; our ability to prevent unauthorized access to our information technology systems and other cybersecurity threats, protect the confidential information of our employees and clients and comply with privacy regulations; our ability to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting; our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our brand and intellectual property; changes in laws and regulations, including changes in tax laws or unfavorable outcomes of tax positions we take, or a failure by us to establish adequate tax reserves; the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters; our credit facility’s ongoing debt service obligations and financial and operational covenants on our business and related interest rate risk, including uncertainty from the transition to SOFR or other interest rate benchmarks; the sufficiency of our cash and cash equivalents to meet our liquidity requirements; the amount and timing of repurchases, if any, under our stock repurchase program and our ability to enhance stockholder value through such program; uncertainty as to the long-term value of Rimini Street’s equity securities; catastrophic events that disrupt our business or that of our clients; and those discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in Rimini Street’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 2, 2024, and as updated from time to time by Rimini Street’s future Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other filings by Rimini Street with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, forward-looking statements provide Rimini Street’s expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this communication. Rimini Street anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause Rimini Street’s assessments to change. However, while Rimini Street may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Rimini Street specifically disclaims any obligation to do so, except as required by law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Rimini Street’s assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this communication. © 2024 Rimini Street, Inc. All rights reserved. “Rimini Street” is a registered trademark of Rimini Street, Inc. in the United States and other countries, and Rimini Street, the Rimini Street logo, and combinations thereof, and other marks marked by TM are trademarks of Rimini Street, Inc. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners, and unless otherwise specified, Rimini Street claims no affiliation, endorsement, or association with any such trademark holder or other companies referenced herein. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240607040838/en/ Permalink https://aetoswire.com/en/news/0706202439853 Contacts Janet Ravin VP, Global Communications Rimini Street, Inc. +1 702 285-3532 pr@riministreet.com

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