Pythian is an Ottawa, Canada–based global technology services firm led by CEO Paul Vallée. The company designs, implements and manages systems via highly skilled technical teams that operate as integrated extensions of clients' organizations. Its core offerings focus on advanced analytics, big data, cloud, databases, DevOps and infrastructure management. Pythian intends to invest further in Cloud and Analytics capabilities and pursue additional geographic expansion into Europe. The company recently closed a $15M mezzanine financing with BDC Capital. Pythian also plans to use part of the proceeds to repurchase shares from some long-term shareholders. Pythian is a global leader in data outsourcing and managed services that specializes in consulting on and managing mission-critical data infrastructures. Its flagship product, Adminiscope, is a SaaS privileged session management solution that secures access to enterprise systems, cloud infrastructures, databases, servers, and applications and enables real-time monitoring and recording of privileged activity. Adminiscope secures privileged access to more than 5,000 systems and was expected to protect 10,000 systems by the end of 2014; it is offered in three editions and can store records for up to seven years. Pythian serves more than 1,000 companies and has managed infrastructures for customers such as American Apparel and Urban Outfitters since 1997. The company plans to use recent funding to expand the market reach of Adminiscope to retailers and other organizations to help eliminate data security breaches and increase consumer confidence. Its consulting and managed services cover technologies including Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, big data, and enterprise infrastructures.

Total raised

$21M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Debt Financing

Latest activity

May 2017