• eSentire

  Participated · Series C · Sep 2014

  eSentire is a Waterloo, Ontario-based Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider led by CEO Kerry Bailey. The company protects critical data and applications for more than 1,200 organizations across 75+ countries. Its service portfolio includes strategic Managed Risk services, 24/7 multi-signal MDR, and Digital Forensics and Incident Response services. eSentire has surpassed US$100 million in annual recurring revenue and plans to scale go-to-market operations across Europe and APAC. Over the next 18 months the company will invest in research and development to expand its patented Atlas XDR software-as-a-service offering and will hire more than 400 team members globally, bringing headcount to over 1,000. These moves are intended to meet increasing enterprise demand and support broader international growth. eSentire provides Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services through a 24×7 Security Operations Center staffed by elite security analysts. Its SOC team hunts, investigates, and responds in real time to known and unknown threats before they become business‑disrupting events. The company is led by CEO Kerry Bailey. eSentire said it will use new funding to continue expanding operations and its business reach. The article describes the company’s core offering as a combination of human analysts and SOC capabilities to protect organizations from evolving cyber attacks. eSentire is a managed detection and response provider based in Cambridge, ON, Canada. Led by CEO J. Paul Haynes, the company provides managed cybersecurity services that detect and contain advanced threats that have bypassed other security controls. It began operations serving the financial services market and has expanded to support sectors including insurance, legal, healthcare, biopharma, engineering, technology, manufacturing and government agencies. The company received an equity investment from Warburg Pincus; the amount was not disclosed. eSentire intends to use the funds to accelerate growth by expanding its technology services to existing clients, increasing outreach to new markets, and to provide liquidity to existing shareholders. The transaction was reported by FinSMEs on 21 August 2017. eSentire provides managed cybersecurity services that combine people, process and technology to detect, remediate and communicate sophisticated cyber threats in real time, 24/7. The company targets mid-size enterprises and has developed forensic capabilities with its TRAP Targeted Retrospection Analysis Platform™. Led by CEO J. Paul Haynes, eSentire has expanded internationally, opening a European headquarters and a second Security Operations Center in Cork, Ireland in 2015. The company committed to hiring 100 new employees in Europe over the following five years. eSentire says it has early success in cloud-based threat intelligence harvesting, sharing and automated protection. It recently secured new funding to support scaling its market presence and launching security operations in new geographies and verticals. eSentire is a Cambridge, Ontario-based provider of Active Threat Protection solutions and managed security services. Its flagship product, Network Interceptor, delivers continuous monitoring, real-time threat detection and containment as a service with human threat analysts on a 24x7x365 basis. Led by CEO J. Paul Haynes, the company serves more than 450 financial services firms as well as legal, extractive and healthcare organizations. eSentire raised C$14M in a Series C to expand its technical capabilities and services. The company plans to use the funds to enter new sectors including critical infrastructure and IP-based markets such as technology and bio-pharma, and to hire 40 new positions for its research facility.

• Embotics

  Led · Equity · Jun 2012

  Embotics provides a multi-cloud management platform for enterprise IT and managed service providers to automate and control virtualized and cloud environments. Its flagship product, Embotics vCommander, integrates into private, public, or hybrid infrastructures to enable delivery of IT as a service, intelligent automation, and IT governance and control. Led by CEO Michael L. Torto, the company serves enterprises and service providers. Embotics is based in Ottawa, Canada and recently opened U.S. headquarters in Boston. The company raised $12.1M in growth funding from Arrowroot Capital. It plans to use the proceeds to drive customer acquisition and expansion through increased investment in sales and marketing as well as product development. Embotics offers V‑Commander, a cloud management platform that automates private cloud provisioning, monitoring and optimization for mid-sized to large IT organizations. The company emphasizes continuous monitoring of virtual data centers to automate deployment and configuration of IT services. Embotics reported 300% growth in sales over the past year and 220% year‑on‑year growth in new customers, with clients including Bell, Deloitte, Cisco, CSC, the Dutch Ministry of Defence and MITRE. The company is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada and maintains offices in the U.S. and EMEA along with a growing global partner network. Embotics plans to use new funding to accelerate global sales and marketing and to hire additional software engineers to support product and customer growth. Total financing to date is $18 million. Embotics Corporation is a pioneer in virtualization and private cloud management that offers the V-Commander virtualization management system. The company describes V-Commander as an end-to-end, integrated, scalable platform that reduces data center complexity, decreases operational costs, and increases efficiency. Embotics recently launched V-Commander 3.7, which it says fulfills the company’s vision for an integrated platform to manage dynamic data centers. The company announced a new multi-million dollar round of financing from existing supporters to support growth. Proceeds will be used to expand engineering, sales and marketing across North America and Europe and to build the customer base for its virtualization management platform. Embotics is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, has offices in the U.S., and a growing network of global partners.

• Sidense

  Participated · Series C · Oct 2011

  Sidense Corp. is an Ottawa, Canada–based developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP). Its NVM IP is designed to enable a wide range of electronic products powered by complex system-on-chip (SoC) semiconductors. Clients include tier 1 semiconductor companies. The company is led by President and CEO Xerxes Wania. Sidense recently won a patent battle against competitor Kilopass Technology Inc. Financially, the company received $1.1M in financing led by Espresso Capital Partners with participation from Trellis Capital Corp. Sidense Corp. is an Ottawa, Canada-based developer of Logic Non-Volatile Memory (LNVM) one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP cores. Its LNVM-OTP IP is designed for use in standard-logic CMOS processes. Customers use the company’s OTP for analog trimming, code storage, encryption keys such as HDCP and WHDI, RFID and Chip ID, medical and automotive applications, and configurable processors and logic. The company is led by Andrew Abouchar (Chairman of the Board) and Xerxes Wania (CEO and President). Sidense raised an additional $5.6m in Series C funding and intends to use the proceeds to develop new products. Investors in the round include Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund, Tech Capital Partners, VentureLink, and Vertex Venture Capital. Sidense Corp. is an Ottawa-based provider of memory IP for use in standard-logic CMOS processes. The company offers embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) products for use in complex integrated circuits and systems-on-chips (SoCs). Semiconductor and electronic systems companies incorporate Sidense memory IP into SoCs found in consumer, communications, industrial, automotive and medical products. On November 5, 2010 Sidense raised $5m in a Series B venture capital financing. The round was led by VentureLink Funds of Canada, with participation from existing partners Tech Capital Partners and Trellis Capital of Canada and Vertex Venture Capital of Israel. The proceeds will be used to expand development of embedded NVM products and to enhance the company’s sales and marketing efforts.

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