10 Cloud Security Startups to Watch in 2014

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1. Bitium

 

Bitium, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Provide cloud application management, single sign-on and analytics tools. /p>

Headquarters: Santa Monica, Calif.

CEO: Scott Kriz, who was most recently VP of product for Fastpoint Games, a sports and entertainment gaming company that was sold to Weplay in 2012.

Founded: 2012

Funding: $2.4 million in seed funding from Resolute VC, Double M Partners, Social Leverage and Karlin Ventures.

2. BitSight Technologies

 

BitSight Technologies, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Offer an information security rating service, which helps organizations evaluate risks when working with partners, suppliers, outsourcers, etc.

Headquarters: Cambridge, Mass.

CEO: Shaun McConnon, who previously served as CEO of Q1 Labs.

Founded: 2011

Funding: BitSight raised a $24 million Series A round in June 2013.

3. CipherCloud

 

CipherCloud, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Provides a platform of unified cloud information protection offerings.

Headquarters: San Jose, Calif.

CEO: Pravin Kothari, formerly a cofounder of ArcSight, which HP acquired for $1.5 billion.

Founded: 2010

Funding: CipherCloud is backed by a $30 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz.

4. HyTrust

 

HyTrust, cloud startup

 

What they do: Develop virtualization security tools, which organizations can use to enforce centralized policies over virtual and cloud infrastructures.

Headquarters: Mountain View, Calif.

CEO: John De Santis serves as CEO. Eric Chiu co-founded the company and is its president. De Santis was formerly Chairman and CEO of TriCipher, a software security infrastructure company acquired by VMware in 2010. After the acquisition, he served as VP, Cloud Services for VMware. Chiu was previously VP of Sales and Business Development for Cemaphore Systems.

Founded: 2009

Funding: HyTrust has raised $34.5 million from both venture capital investment firms, including Trident Capital, Granite Ventures and Epic Ventures, as well as strategic corporate investors such as Cisco, VMware, Intel Capital, and Fortinet. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm for the U.S. intelligence community, has also invested in the company.

5. ForgeRock

 

ForgeRock, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Provide identity management solutions

Headquarters: San Francisco, Calif.

CEO: Mike Ellis, who previously held senior executive roles at SAP, i2 Technologies, Oracle, and Apple.

Founded: 2010

Funding: ForgeRock has secured $22 million in two rounds of funding from Foundation Capital and Accel Partners.

6. MyPermissions

 

MyPermissions, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Provide a service that helps users manage, control, and monitor which apps and websites have access to their personal information.

Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel

CEO: Olivier Amar, who was previously the VP Marketing at GetTaxi and Toyga Financial.

Founded: 2012

Funding: The company has raised a $1 million seed round led by 500 Startups, lool Ventures and 2B Angels, with participation from Plus Ventures and angel investor Robby Hilkowitz.

 

7. Netskope

 

Netskope, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Provide cloud application analytics and policy creation tools that “eliminate the Catch-22 between being agile [and being] secure and compliant by providing complete visibility and enforcing sophisticated policies in cloud apps.”

Headquarters: Los Altos, Calif.

CEO: Sanjay Beri. Prior to Netskope, Beri was the GM of Juniper Network’s secure access and mobile business units and led the company’s India office. Before that, he co-founded Ingrian Networks, which was later acquired by SafeNet.

Founded: 2012

Funding: The company is backed by $21.4 million from Lightspeed Ventures and The Social+Capital Partnership.

8. Prevoty

 

Prevoty, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Provide cloud-based security that protects Web applications by contextually securing and monitoring all content, user sessions, and application behavior.

Headquarters: Los Angeles, Calif.

CEO: Julien Bellanger, who previously founded Personagraph, a mobile user privacy company. Prior to that, he was Director of Corporate Development at Intertrust.

Founded: 2013

Funding: $2.4 million in seed funding.

9. Skyhigh Networks

 

Skyhigh Networks, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Provide a cloud lifecycle and security suite, which discovers, analyzes, and secures various cloud services.

Headquarters: Cupertino, Calif.

CEO: Rajiv Gupta. He formerly founded Securent and served as its CEO. After Cisco acquired Securent for $100 million in 2007, Gupta joined Cisco and served as VP/GM of the Policy Management Business Unit.

Founded: December 2011

Funding: In May 2013, Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners invested $20 million in a Series B round, bringing total funding to $26.5 million.

10. SnoopWall

 

SnoopWall, cloud security tool startup

 

What they do: Provide antispyware/antimalware “counterveillance” software that detects and blocks remote control, spying and eavesdropping on computers, tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices.

Headquarters: Nashua, N.H.

CEO: Gary Miliefsky. He was formerly founder and CTO of NetClarity.

Founded: 2013

Funding: SnoopWall is currently backed by an undisclosed amount of angel funding.

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