Ziften provides continuous endpoint visibility to enterprises, combining real-time user, device and threat behavior monitoring, analytics, and reporting. Its solution is architected for rapid deployment—hours, not days—and for ultra-low resource consumption so it can scale dynamically across organizations. Ziften’s product is designed to discover, analyze, and respond to security exposures to harden corporate resiliency and augment existing security tools and teams. The company positions itself as a leader in endpoint threat detection and visibility and cites rapid adoption and industry recognition. This funding round is intended to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and extend its global reach. Ziften highlights recent awards and inclusion on vendor lists as signs of market traction. Ziften Technologies builds BLISS (Behavioral Lightweight Intelligence for Stressed Systems), a Desktop Quality of Service (QoS) product that monitors resource consumption and dynamically prioritizes processes across physical and virtual Windows desktops. BLISS uses lightweight behavioral algorithms, classification, and machine learning to make near-zero-administration decisions that improve uptime, performance, security, and reduce errors and annoyances. Ziften says it brings expertise from antivirus and hardware industries and has experience deploying behavioral software to more than 150 million systems worldwide. The company plans to expand its core technologies and bring BLISS to a wider audience of enterprise customers. Early deployments at multiple Fortune 500 customers reportedly improved application performance, uptime on older PCs, and employee productivity. Financially, Ziften has raised $11.3 million to date, including a newly announced $5.5M Series B. Ziften was founded in 2010 and is based in Austin, Texas. Ziften Technologies provides enterprise software designed to help organizations understand and control what applications run across Windows desktop environments. Its platform enables organizations to automatically eliminate, restrict, or accelerate applications based on relative business value. The company was launched and is led by founder and CEO Mark Obrecht, who previously founded WholeSecurity (acquired by Symantec in 2005). Ziften’s team includes experts who previously led product innovations at WholeSecurity, Intel, Cisco, Dell, Akamai, Symantec, AMD and Caltech. The company closed a $5.8M Series A to support its early commercial and product efforts.

Total raised

$35M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jul 2015