MENLO PARK, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/01/15 — , the leader in security and compliance for public clouds, announced that it had raised $8.3 Million USD in Series B financing. The new capital will enable the company to grow its sales and marketing efforts, and expand its product portfolio for purpose-built cloud security solutions. This new round of funding comes in the wake of the company–s tremendous success of its popular cloud security service which currently protects more than 250 enterprise customers.
Dome9 SecOps cloud infrastructure security service protects IaaS deployments. Leveraging cloud-native technologies, Dome9 orchestrates security policies, visualizes security risks, and remediates threats to ensure secure application delivery in the cloud. Among the company–s unique services is “Dome9 Clarity” that is trusted by hundreds of enterprises to concisely visualize security policies and maps threats across enterprise clouds over Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows Azure, IBM/SoftLayer, Google Cloud Platform, and many others.
The company has raised a total of $13 million in funding to date and this new round will primarily be used to accelerate its growth among enterprise cloud users. The Series B round is being led by ORR Partners and includes new Investors JAL Ventures, Pinnacle and Lazarus Israel Opportunity Fund. Existing investor Opus Capital Ventures also participated in the round.
The company announced the addition of several industry heavyweights to its board. , Founder and Managing Partner of ORR partners, seed investor and board member at SolarEdge (NASDAQ: SEDG) joins the company as Chairman of the Board. He is joined on the board by Joshua Levinberg, Founder and Managing Partner at JAL Ventures, and co-founder of Gilat Satellite Networks (NASDAQ: GILT). Experienced venture investor and Silicon Valley executive, Herb Madan also participated in the round and has joined Dome9–s advisory board.
Additionally, the company added Robert (Bob) Darabant as Chief Revenue Officer. An industry veteran with over 20 years of IT security executive experience, Bob has been directly responsible for generating more than $1B in enterprise business as head of sales in companies like NetScreen and Sophos.
“Today–s enterprises demand dynamic and active cloud infrastructure security in support of a scalable, high availability, and high performance cloud environment,” says Zohar Alon, CEO & Co-Founder at Dome9. “We will continue to deliver to our customers the –state-of-the-art– ability to identify threats, protect applications, and enforce security policies across public and private enterprise cloud environments.”
“I am very glad to join the Dome9 team. The market reached a tipping point where large enterprises are moving substantial parts of their IT infrastructure to IaaS providers (like AWS). These enterprises must have the ability to manage the security and compliance issues involved,” says Avery More, Founder and Managing Partner at ORR partners. “Dome9 has the –best-of-breed– solution in the market for this need. We plan to use the proceeds of this round to dramatically scale our go-to-market execution.”
Dome9 Security protects cloud infrastructure. Leveraging cloud-native technologies Dome9 visualizes security risks, verifies and enforces security policies, and remediates threats to ensure continuous secure application delivery in cloud. Dome9–s self-managed cloud service is trusted by hundreds of enterprise customers to protect clouds over Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows Azure, IBM/Softlayer and many others.
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