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Emily Leproust Of Twist Bioscience Named 2015 Global Thinker By Foreign Policy Magazine
Twist Bioscience, a company focused on synthetic DNA, today announced that its CEO, Emily Leproust, Ph.D., has been selected as one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015 for fast-tracking the building blocks of life. Each year, Foreign Policy selects the leading Global Thinkers whose contributions and work have changed lives and are shaping the world.
ProtectWise Raises $20 Million In Series B
ProtectWise, provider of the industry’s first Cloud Network DVR for complete detection, visibility and response to enterprise threats, today announced it has closed its Series B round of funding of $20 million. In total, the company has raised more than $37 million dollars in venture capital funding since May 2013. The new funding will be used to support the company’s continued growth, technology innovation and market expansion.
PhishMe Continues to Dominate Phishing Threat Management and Intelligence Market with Malcovery Acquisition
PhishMe® Inc., the leading provider of phishing threat management solutions, announced today that it has acquired key assets of phishing intelligence firm – Malcovery Security LLC
PhishMe Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies; Identified as a Top 10 Security Company
PhishMe® Inc., the leading provider of phishing threat management solutions that empower employees to be a layer of human security sensors against phishing, malware, and drive-by attacks, today announced that Inc. Magazine has named it one of the 2015 Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the U.S. PhishMe ranked in the 89th percentile of all companies evaluated. Among security companies, it ranked in the top 10 nationwide and No. 2 in the State of Virginia.
Blue Coat Acquires Perspecsys to Effectively Make Public Cloud Applications Private
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., a market leader in enterprise security, today announced it has acquired Perspecsys, Inc., a leader in enterprise cloud data protection solutions. With this acquisition, Blue Coat significantly expands its cloud security offerings while enhancing the industry’s most robust hybrid cloud portfolio.
Twist Bioscience Raises $37 Million In Oversubscribed Series C Financing
Twist Bioscience, a company focused on synthetic DNA, today announced the completion of a $37 million Series C financing. Led by Illumina, Inc., participants in the round include new investors Fidelity Management and Research Company and Foresite Capital Management LLC, as well as all existing investors including Nick and Joby Pritzker (through their family’s firm Tao Invest), ARCH Venture Partners, Paladin Capital Group, Yuri Milner, and additional strategic corporate and venture investors.
PhishMe Unveils New Security Solution for Enhanced Visibility into Targeted Phishing Attacks
PhishMe® Inc., the leading provider of phishing threat management solutions that empower employees to be a layer of human security sensors against phishing, malware, and drive-by attacks, today introduces PhishMe Triage, a new product offering that gives incident responders the analytics and visibility into email-based attacks occurring against their organizations in near real-time.
PhishMe Closes $13 Million Investment with Paladin Capital Group and Aldrich Capital Partners
PhishMe® Inc., the leading provider of phishing threat management solutions that empower employees to be a layer of human security sensors against phishing, malware, and drive-by attacks, today announced it has raised $13 million in Series B funding led by existing investor Paladin Capital Group and new investor Aldrich Capital Partners.
ProtectWise Emerges from Stealth with More than $17 Million in Funding to Launch World’s First Cloud Network DVR for Enterprise Security
ProtectWise exits stealth today to launch a breakthrough cloud-based architecture poised to change the landscape of enterprise network security. ProtectWise leverages cloud economies of scale to deliver a subscription-based service that eliminates blind spots in threat detection, ends alarm fatigue by identifying and prioritizing network threats, and delivers faster and more effective incident response.
Bugcrowd Raises $6 Million In Series A Funding To Further Accelerate Enterprise Adoption Of Crowdsourced Security
Bugcrowd, the innovator in crowdsourced security testing for the enterprise, today announced it has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by Costanoa Venture Capital. Costanoa is joined by existing investors including Rally Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, and Blackbird Ventures.