Menlo Security, a cybersecurity firm commercialising cybersecurity technology from University of California Berkeley, has emerged from stealth with $25m in series B backing.
The round builds on $10.5m raised in Menlo’s 2014 series A, bringing the total funding in the firm to $35.5m. The B round was led by new investor Sutter Hill Ventures, which was joined in participation by existing investors General Catalyst, Engineering Capital, and university commercialisation investor Osage University Partners.
The US-based company is developing an “isolation platform”, which closes traditional avenues of attack for malware. It does this by executing all web content in a cloud-based server and away from a user’s computer, and then streams back a malware-free version of the user’s session to their browser.
Amir Ben-Efraim, co-founder and CEO of Menlo Security, said: “Organisations and individuals should be able to interact online without the fear of being compromised. By focusing on ease of deployment and a seamless user experience, the team at Menlo Security has reinvented isolation as a highly usable and scalable front line of defence against malware.”
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