Cybersecurity startup Virsec raises $100M in round led by BlueIO
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Cybersecurity startup Virsec Systems Inc. disclosed today that it has raised $100 million in new funding to hire more people, meet product demand and build out its customer support model.
BlueIO led the Series C round. Other investors included Allen & Co., Arena Holdings, Intuitive Venture Partners, JC2 Ventures, Artiman Ventures, Quantum Valley Investments, Marker Hill Capital and a number of individual investors.
Founded in 2015, Virsec offers a platform that protects critical application workloads from the inside. The service protects processes in memory and pinpoints attacks in real-time.
Designed to stop sophisticated attacks at the first point of insurgence, the Virsec Security Platform is pitched as making sure adversaries don’t have time in software to execute their malicious plans. The platform uses “AppMap” technology that maps acceptable application execution and in