• Digital Guardian

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2015

  Digital Guardian offers a cloud-delivered Data Protection Platform and DG Cloud analytics backend that detect and block threats to sensitive information across corporate networks, endpoints, and cloud applications. The platform is available on premises, as SaaS, or as a managed service and claims unique data awareness combined with threat detection and response. Digital Guardian currently secures more than 4.5 million endpoints across 50 countries and serves high-growth verticals including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and professional services. The company says it has enabled data-rich organizations for more than 15 years. Management has added senior leaders in strategy, engineering, and product to support growth and product development. The recent financing is intended to accelerate product development and innovation to meet rising demand driven by regulations such as GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act. Digital Guardian develops a desktop agent that monitors data and system events, inspects content, clarifies data, and forms policies controlling where data can go. Its products have largely focused on endpoint data protection, and the company is working to integrate network-level DLP capabilities following a recent acquisition. Digital Guardian acquired Code Green Networks for roughly $18 million and has been integrating that network-level DLP with its existing offerings. The company serves about 450 distinct clients and employs 265 people with offices in the U.S., U.K., and Japan. With the new capital, Digital Guardian plans to expand the scope of its products and tightly integrate its technologies to better address cyber threats. CEO Ken Levine has said the company is beginning to evaluate what would make it a successful IPO candidate in 2016. Verdasys provides Digital Guardian, an integrated data protection platform that combines insider threat and cyber threat defense to enable visibility and real-time control over user and malware activities on endpoints. Digital Guardian is also available as a cloud-managed service. Customers include U.S. patent holders, government agencies, and Global 2000 and mid-sized companies. On March 19, 2014, the company raised $12m in funding. The company intends to use the funds to expand into new markets, add additional data protection use cases, and build industry partnerships and channels. Kenneth Levine, formerly SVP and GM of Security Management at McAfee/Intel Security, joined Verdasys as CEO, replacing Jim Ricotta. Verdasys develops the Digital Guardian Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) platform to monitor, classify, audit and control sensitive data across endpoints, servers, virtual environments, mobile devices and the cloud. The company emphasizes protecting intellectual property and regulated data from privileged insiders, third parties, and targeted cyber attacks. In 2011 Verdasys expanded platform support (including Linux distributions, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2), added integrations with TITUS and Attivio, and delivered the first phase of an EIP Mobile strategy. Verdasys also plans managed-service offerings to simplify adoption and management of data protection programs and intends to extend protection to tablets and smartphones. The business was profitable in 2011 and achieved double-digit revenue growth, with software license revenue up 60% over 2010 and a record 1.13 million new licenses delivered that year. Customers exceed 250 Global 2000 and government deployments across automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical, chemical, defense and other industries.

• Brookline Venture Partners

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2014

  Verdasys develops endpoint data-protection software, with its flagship product Digital Guardian providing deep visibility and real-time control over user and malware activities on endpoints. The company claims proven scalability with almost two million endpoint agents deployed globally and customers that include seven of the top U.S. patent holders and numerous government agencies. Digital Guardian combines insider-threat and cyber-threat defense in an integrated platform and is also available as a cloud-managed service. Verdasys was named a leader in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention. The company says its customers protect more than a trillion dollars’ worth of sensitive data, intellectual property, and trade secrets. Verdasys intends to use new funds to expand into new markets, additional data-protection use cases, and to grow industry partnerships and channels.

• NitroSecurity

  Led · Series B · Oct 2010

  NitroSecurity provides security information and event management (SIEM) solutions designed to give analysts more effective tools to defend data. Based in Portsmouth, NH, it serves more than 500 organizations across energy, healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail, hospitality and managed services. The company acquired the security business of LogMatrix and plans to integrate LogMatrix’s risk-based assessment and correlation technologies into its SIEM product family. NitroSecurity intends to evolve its SIEM offerings and use new capital to fund future acquisitions. It is increasing domestic investments in federal, healthcare and critical infrastructure markets while expanding internationally across EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Financially, the company secured $6M in Series B funding to support these growth and product initiatives.

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