FireHost provides secure, managed cloud IaaS and private cloud infrastructure built for security, compliance, performance, and managed service. The company serves customers across industries with strict compliance needs, including healthcare, retail, and payment card data protection. FireHost reports it has doubled revenue in each of the past three years and blocked more than 100 million hack attempts in 2013. The company says it will use new funding to further product development, sales, brand awareness, and to invest in technology separation to protect customers from complex threats. FireHost operates secure cloud sites in Dallas, Phoenix, London, Amsterdam, and Singapore and is based in Dallas. Leadership emphasizes an uncompromising approach to secure cloud operating practices and positions the company as a secure cloud trailblazer. FireHost offers secure cloud hosting infrastructure built for security, compliance, performance and scalability, protecting sensitive data and brand reputations of large companies. The company provides secure cloud servers and managed services with sites in Dallas, Phoenix, London and Amsterdam and serves customers in more than 30 countries. Notable customers include Whole Foods, Kaiser Permanente and Casio, and FireHost reported blocking more than 60 million attacks last year. The company introduced FluidScale, a rebootless scaling technology, and has expanded its secure cloud offering into the European market. With the new funding, FireHost plans to expand its enterprise market presence, develop new enterprise-grade solutions, and further protect clients with differentiated security, compliance, performance and managed services. Based in Dallas, FireHost has been recognized in the article as the highest performing cloud infrastructure available and has raised a total of $34M in three years. FireHost provides secure, scalable cloud hosting designed to protect sensitive data and brand reputations using an architecture built for security, scalability and performance. Launched in 2009 and led by CEO Chris Drake, the company serves large enterprises as well as fast-growing eCommerce, SaaS and healthcare IT customers. FireHost operates in Dallas, Phoenix, London and Amsterdam. The company plans to use new funding to expand into additional countries beyond the U.S. and Europe, and to build out infrastructure and new services. Recently it completed a $10M Series C to support those expansion and product plans. FireHost provides secured, managed cloud hosting for websites and applications that require strong data protection and high performance. Its core product is managed hosting tailored to customers in sectors like e-commerce and healthcare IT. Customers named in the article include Hewlett Packard, Johns Hopkins University, Johnson & Johnson, Duke University, LogLogic, HomeAway and Sotheby’s. The company is based in Dallas, Texas. The newly raised capital will be used to scale operations and to expand into Europe, starting with the U.K. The article also notes a high-profile anecdote that FireHost once offered refuge to security consultant Kevin Mitnick after his prior host refused to host his pages. FireHost delivers enterprise-quality secure hosting solutions to the SMB market, offering protections for customers' websites, applications and other valuable data as standard across its hosting plans. The company closed a $2M Series A funding round to support growth. Proceeds are earmarked to expand the team in IT, sales and marketing and to build out infrastructure. FireHost emphasizes security as a core differentiator, bringing enterprise-grade protections to smaller customers. The company plans to launch a new offering that combines dedicated and cloud hosting into one secure, affordable solution for companies of all sizes in the coming weeks. FireHost is based in Dallas, Texas.

Total raised

$59M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Series E

Latest activity

Apr 2014