RiskIQ provides a digital attack surface management platform offering comprehensive discovery, intelligence, and mitigation of threats associated with an organization’s digital presence. The platform combines advanced internet data reconnaissance and analytics to expedite investigations, help security teams understand digital attack surfaces, assess risk, and take action to protect businesses, brands, and customers. Used by over 6,000 organizations and thousands of security analysts, security teams, and CISOs worldwide, RiskIQ supports vulnerability management, application security, and penetration testing programs. Led by CEO Lou Manousos, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. In April 2020 it raised $15m in a Series D round led by National Grid Partners with participation from Summit Partners, Battery Ventures, Georgian Partners, and MassMutual Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to bring its attack surface management, threat detection, and unique threat hunting capabilities to critical infrastructure industries. RiskIQ offers an External Threat Management platform that combines a worldwide proxy and sensor network with synthetic clients and applies machine learning and data science to detect and mitigate threats across web, mobile, and social. The platform provides enterprises visibility into external threats and enables security teams to investigate, reduce time to understand new threats, and remediate incidents. RiskIQ reports more than 200 enterprise customers, over 13,000 security analysts using the platform, and hundreds of weekly users of its PassiveTotal threat investigation tool. In the first half of 2016 the company reported year-over-year bookings growth of 80 percent and says it has grown bookings and new customer acquisition for every product in its platform. Through a revamped channel program the company has penetrated European and Asian markets and plans to use new financing to expand its ecosystem, global sales, and platform applications. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. RiskIQ detects online threats that exploit customers and damage enterprise brands by continuously discovering and analyzing web and mobile assets from the user perspective. Its service combines cloud-based intelligence and analytics with a worldwide proxy network and software that emulates real users to expose malware on websites, in mobile apps and in advertisements. RiskIQ enables customers to detect and take down website-resident malware, malvertisements and malicious or copycat mobile apps. More than 100 companies use the service, including eight of the 10 largest U.S. financial institutions and five of the nine leading Internet companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. RiskIQ plans to use new funding to enhance research and development, expand outside the U.S., and invest in sales and marketing to grow share in insurance, ecommerce, media and consumer packaged goods sectors. RiskIQ provides security solutions that monitor websites and mobile applications residing outside corporate control. The company leverages a global proxy network spanning nearly 40 geographic locations and proprietary crawling technology that continuously scans tens of millions of web pages each day. Its platform alerts corporate customers to threats including malware, phishing, stuffing, click fraud, brand abuse and intellectual property violations. RiskIQ serves several Fortune 500 companies. Led by CEO and co-founder Elias Manousos, the company raised external capital to support growth. The company intends to use the funds to expand development of its cybersecurity product offering and increase investments in sales, marketing and other business development activities.

Total raised

$81M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Jun 2020