Invincea, Inc., a Fairfax, Va.-based provider of malware threat protection solutions via virtualization, raised $5.1m in growth capital.
Backers include Harbert Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, and New Atlantic Ventures.
The company intends to use the funding to expand its sales, engineering, and marketing departments in order to continue to grow its presence across highly targeted corporate environments, which today includes industry verticals including oil and gas, high tech, financial services, defense, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and energy, among others.
Founded by CEO Anup Ghosh, Invincea offers solutions that protect networks against all types of threats directed at end users, including zero-days, by moving applications that render untrusted content into controlled secure virtual environments that automatically detect and terminate threats in real time.
The company has also appointed:
– Christopher Smith as World Wide Vice President of Sales;
– Rob Cahill as Director of Federal Sales;
– Rebecca Quinn as Senior Consultant, Client Services;
– PJ Bihuniak, Nick Keller, Ken Kreitzer, and Tom Mitchell in the regional and national sales team.
FinSMEs
29/11/2011