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Veza, whose software helps businesses monitor employees’ and AI agents’ access to internal data, has been talking to potential buyers about a sale that could value the startup at more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions.
A sale at that level would be a premium to its price in April, when investors led by New Enterprise Associates valued the five-year-old startup at $808 million including the investment. The potential suitors couldn’t be learned. The interest in Veza comes as.
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