Shape has also recruited former Google 'click fraud czar,' Shuman Ghosemajumder.

US-based search engine Google’s corporate venturing unit has joined the venture firm of Eric Schmidt, TomorrowVentures, backing Shape Security.

Google Ventures topped up Shape’s April series A round, which initially raised $5.6m of a planned $5.8m round, according to a filing with US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission, was led by venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and TomorrowVentures.

Other backers of the round were venture firm Baseline Ventures, former partners at venture firms Sequoia Capital and…

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