US-based Shape Security has raised $20m in Series B funding led by Venrock and with participation from return backers Google Ventures.

Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of search engine Google, has participted in a $20m series B round for US-based web security start-up Shape Security.

Venture capital firm Venrock led the B round, with participation from peers Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Allegis Capital and Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures investment firm and Enrique Salem, former chief executive of technology company Symantec.

In July last year, Google Ventures topped up Shape’s A round, which initially raised $5.6m of a planned…

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