Automox
1606 Headway Cir #9043, Austin, Texas, 78754, United States
Overview
Automox offers a cloud-native endpoint management platform that automates configuration, patching, inventory, and security workflows across Windows, Mac, Linux, servers, and PCs. From a central dashboard customers can enforce policies, orchestrate compliance checks, deploy critical patches and updates, run custom scripts, and generate technical and executive reports. The company has introduced features such as Data Extract for historical patch insights and a Community Worklet Catalog for shared workflow automations. Automox reports nearly 2,000 customers and over 160 employees, and says customers have seen a 50% reduction in labor hours for patch management, an 80% reduction in corporate attack surface, 2–3x less effort, and 15x faster infrastructure hardening versus competitors. Its customer base grew 200% from June 2019. The company says it will use the new funding to support product development. Automox provides a cloud-native cyber hygiene platform that helps security and IT teams automate the fundamentals of endpoint hardening. Its platform claims to reduce corporate attack surface by up to 80% and to cut alert fatigue for downstream endpoint detection and response tools. The company emphasizes proactive reduction of vulnerabilities rather than relying solely on tools that identify adversaries after they breach infrastructure. Automox will use new capital to accelerate key feature development and to expand its sales and marketing teams to support a rapidly growing enterprise customer base. The company's technology will be offered through the CrowdStrike Store and CrowdStrike is participating in the round through its Falcon Fund in partnership with Accel. Automox has raised a total of $42 million to date. Automox offers a cloud-based, automated patch management and configuration management platform that supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and third-party software. The product serves as a patching system of record for IT managers and system administrators, enabling tracking, control and management of the patch process. Automox emphasizes security, improved productivity and time savings for customers. The company protects tens of thousands of customer endpoints and counts customers such as Greyhound Lines, Hootsuite, NASA, Quicken, Yale University, Xerox and Dollar Shave Club. Led by founder and CEO Jay Prassl, Automox plans to use new capital to accelerate engineering, sales and marketing growth. Automox offers a cloud-based platform that provides patch management and endpoint protection across Windows, Mac, and Linux for geographically dispersed client and server infrastructures. The platform gives IT managers real-time access to configuration and patch status for every endpoint and automates patch execution and policy enforcement to reduce vulnerabilities and meet corporate security standards. Customers include Dollar Shave Club, Hootsuite, Quicken, Gaia, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dizzion, and NTT Data Services. The company is led by founder and CEO Jay Prassl and is based in Boulder, CO. Automox raised $2.0M in funding and will use the proceeds to accelerate product development, marketing and sales, and to expand its OEM program. The recent round signals backing from experienced investors in the security sector. Automox offers a cloud-based platform that fully automates patch remediation across Windows, Linux, Mac, and third-party software without requiring additional servers or complex setup. The platform also supports system configuration management and continuous infrastructure monitoring and inventory. It is designed to provide security improvements, increased productivity, and time savings for companies of any size. The company is led by founder and CEO Jay Prassl and operates from Boulder, Colo. Automox closed a $1.3M financing to accelerate its product roadmap. The investment is intended to fund additional development hires and increase the pace of new feature releases.
- Total raised
- $153M
- Funding rounds
- 5
- Latest round
- Series C
- Latest activity
- Apr 2021
Industries
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Cloud Management
- Software
Recent funding
Series C
Apr 2021
$110M
Series B
Feb 2020
$30M
Series A
Nov 2018
$9M
Equity
Mar 2018
$2M
Equity
Jul 2017
$1M