Osage University has contributed to a $9.2m series A round for Corelight, a cybersecurity company co-founded by UC Berkeley professor Vern Paxson.

Corelight, a US-based cybersecurity company based on University of California, Berkeley research, closed a $9.2m series A round yesterday that featured spinout-focused investment firm Osage University Partners.

The round was led by Accel Partners and included angel investor Steve McCanne.

Corelight has developed cybersecurity technology that enables companies to detect, stop and remediate attacks by offering a wide-ranging, real-time understanding of traffic on the network.

The technology is based on research by Vern Paxson, professor of computer science at Berkeley, who built the underlying framework, called Bro – named after Big Brother in the novel 1984 in recognition of the fact that network monitoring needs to respect user privacy.

Paxson first began working on Bro in 1995 when he was working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The series A capital will help accelerate the spinout’s growth by boosting sales, marketing and engineering activities.

Greg Bell, chief executive of Corelight, said: “We help our customers solve cybersecurity problems faster than they can today, often decreasing the time to resolve incidents from hours and days down to minutes. This new investment will accelerate our progress.

“We are busy working on a series of new features customers are asking for so they can focus effort away from sensor management and towards higher-value activities like data analysis, threat hunting and incident response.”