WhiteHat Security, founded in 2001 and led by CEO Stephanie Fohn, offers a cloud website vulnerability management platform. Its flagship WhiteHat Sentinel product line manages more than 11,000 websites across e-commerce, financial services, technology and healthcare markets. The company recently launched Sentinel Mobile to extend security to mobile applications and Sentinel Source to embed security from application inception. WhiteHat intends to increase its focus on the small-to-medium-sized enterprise (SME) market. It plans to expand sales of Sentinel Mobile and Sentinel Source and to grow internationally. The company recently received a $31M growth financing. WhiteHat Security provides Sentinel, a SaaS-based website vulnerability management solution that assesses real-time risks to websites, identifies specific vulnerabilities, and reports results. The product is in use on more than 4,000 websites, including top ecommerce, finance and healthcare companies and other highly regulated sites. The company was founded in 2001 and is led by CEO Stephanie Fohn. WhiteHat is based in Santa Clara, California. It received an $8M equity financing from Investor Growth Capital. The company plans to use the proceeds to hire new staff and to open a regional office in Houston, Texas that will include a Threat Research Center. WhiteHat Security provides website security services through its WhiteHat Sentinel subscription offering. Sentinel is described as a service that gives customers control of site vulnerabilities while being expert-managed. The company claims Sentinel is the only complete solution for website security. New funding will be used to expand services such as the Sentinel program. WhiteHat is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. Prior to this round the company had previously raised $6.2 million.

Total raised

$46M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Feb 2013