COVID has compounded the disproportional stress women face in the IT workplace, putting careers at risk, as well as nearly a decade of progress toward gender equity.
The round was led by JMI Equity with participation from ForgePoint Capital and Gula Tech Adventures.
The company intends to use the funds to continue expanding its cybersecurity platform.
Led by Kyle Hanslovan, founder and CEO, Huntress enables businesses to identify and eliminate attackers who have bypassed preventive tools and are hiding within exposed IT environments. By combining a SaaS platform with a highly skilled ThreatOps team, the solution finds and stops attacks while reducing the cost and complexity barriers that prevent small businesses from acquiring enterprise-grade defenses.
This funding comes 10 months after the launch of the Huntress Security Platform, which saw the company extend its core capabilities the identification and removal of persistent malware to include ransomware detection, port scanning, antivirus management and more. The company also recently announced the acquisition of network-aware endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology from San