Momentum’s Watch List: Q3 2016 Selected Private Companies With Tremendous Momentum. Company Commentary Company Commentary Raised: Private Funded HQ: San Francisco, CA Raised: $35.0M HQ: Palo Alto, CA § OPSWAT provides an advanced threat detection and prevention platform to protect organizations from zero-day attacks. Metadefender leverages 100+ anti-malware, data sanitization, vulnerability and other security engines to protect organizations from known and unknown threats. Use cases include threat detection & prevention, email & proxy threat prevention and endpoint forensics & posture assessment. Its solutions are deployed by 1000+ enterprises & 50+ OEM customers to more than 200M endpoints § Leadership: Benny Czarny (CEO), Tom Mullen (SVP, Bus Dev), Patrick Tan (CFO) § Vera is a next-gen data security company that enables businesses of all sizes to secure, track, and share any kind of data – from Office files to video, no matter where it’s stored or how it’s shared – email, Box, Dropbox or local file shares. With robust policy enforcement, strong encryption, and strict access controls, Vera’s Dynamic Data Protection lets employees collaborate freely while ensuring the highest level of security, visibility and control § Leadership: Ajay Arora (CEO), Prakash Linga (CTO), Robin Daniels (CMO) Raised: $7.0M HQ: Sunnyvale, CA Raised: $32.5M HQ: Portland, OR § RiskSense is a leader in proactive cyber risk management. It enables enterprises and governments to reveal cyber risk, quickly orchestrate remediation and monitor the results. This is done by unifying and contexualizing internal security intelligence, external threat data and business criticality across a growing attack surface § Its SaaS platform shortens time to remediation, increases operational efficiency, strengthens security programs, improves cyber hygiene and minimizes cyber risks § Leadership: Srinivas Mukkamala, Ph.D (CEO), Mark Fidel (Co-Founder/Corp Dev) § ID Experts provides software and services to organizations for managing cyber risks and data breaches, and to consumers to protect and restore their identities from identity theft. It offers a Data Breach Response that provides digital forensics investigation, data breach notification and crisis communications, credit monitoring, identity monitoring and health monitoring services for healthcare, financial services, retail, higher education and government organizations in the U.S. § Leadership: Bob Gregg (CEO), Rick Kam (President), Chris Kane (COO/CIO) Raised: $6.0M HQ: Austin, TX Raised: $29.6M HQ: Boston, MA § SparkCognition is the leading Cognitive Security Analytics company developing patented products that detect behavioral anomalies in streaming data sets from both industrial sensors and IT/OT networks. SparkSecure applies automated model building, Cognitive Fingerprinting (patented) and natural language processing to automatically detect, prioritize, assess, and remediate a wide range of the most advanced cyber threats. DeepArmor is the first cognitive antivirus solution to the market § Leadership: Amir Husain (CEO), Randy Printz (COO) § Onapsis is the pioneer in cybersecurity and compliance solutions for cloud and onpremise ERP and business-critical applications. Onapsis Security Platform is the most widely-used SAP-certified cybersecurity solution that delivers both preventative vulnerability and compliance controls, as well as real-time detection and incident response capabilities to reduce risks affecting critical business processes and data. The platform can be integrated with SIEM, GRC and network security products § Leadership: Mariano Nunez (CEO), Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen (CTO) Raised: $10.0M HQ: Reston, VA Raised: $50.0M HQ: Tel Aviv, IL § Verodin is defining the emerging concept of Instrumented Security. Its platform empowers customers to measure and continuously validate the cumulative effectiveness of layered security infrastructures revealing true security postures. Through automated defense analysis, its customers achieve maximum value from security spending, better leverage existing security investments and measurably improve their cyber prevention, detection and response capabilities § Leadership: Chris Key (CEO), Ben Cianciaruso (COO) § Cato Networks has developed a revolutionary new network security-as-a-service (NSaaS) platform that is changing the way network security is delivered, managed and evolved for the distributed, cloud-centric, and mobile-first enterprise. Its Cato Cloud platform has two parts: Cato Cloud Network which consolidates and encrypts all enterprise network elements using a network of POPs and the Cato Network Security Services, which then adds security offerings (e.g., NGFW) on top of the network § Leadership: Shlomo Kramer (CEO), Gur Shatz (CTO) Raised: $11.6M HQ: Boston, MA § BioCatch is a provider of behavioral biometric, authentication and malware detection solutions for mobile and web applications. Available as a cloud solution, it proactively collects 500+ parameters to generate a unique user profile. Organizations use the platform to continuously authenticate users during their online sessions, protecting against cyber threats and fraudulent activity, such as account takeover and RitB § Leadership: Eyal Goldwerger (CEO), Avi Turgeman (CTO), Uri Rivner (Strategy) Raised: $58.0M HQ: Leesburg, VA § PhishMe is a provider of human-focused phishing defense solutions. Its intelligence-driven platform turns employees into an active line of defense by enabling them to identify, report and mitigate spear phishing, malware and drive-by threats. Its phishing incident response platform and phishing threat intelligence enables SOC and IR teams to respond faster to real threats – decreasing the risk of data breaches § Leadership: Rohyt Belani (CEO), Aaron Higbee (CTO), Jim Hansen (COO) Source: Momentum Partners, PitchBook Data, CrunchBase, Company Press Releases. 14
Momentum’s Watch List: Q4 2015 to Q2 2016 A Look Back At Those Companies With Momentum From Previous Quarters. Q2 2016 Q1 2016 Q4 2015 Series B (04/20/16): $15M (04/26/16): In-Q-Tel Investment Series A (07/06/16): $10M Series C (08/02/16): $21M Series B (08/23/16): $12M / $3M Debt Series B (08/24/16): $15M Series B (07/12/16): $10M 15
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