6Scan, a San Francisco, CA- and Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of website monitoring and security solutions for small businesses, has closed additional funding from YL Ventures.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the capital to expand their cloud-based security service to work with all web platforms and to build its US presence.
In addition to the funding, 6Scan also appointed Chris Weltzien, a twelve-year veteran of the computer security space having worked at Zone Labs (acquired by Check Point in 2005); Exploit Prevention Labs (acquired by AVG Technologies in 2008); AVG, Avira GmbH, as new CEO. He will work from the company’s newly opened office in San Francisco. Also led by Nitzan Miron, 6Scan Co-Founder and President, 6Scan provides a website protection suite that offers automatic detection and fixing of security vulnerabilities.
The company will maintain development team in Tel Aviv.
FinSMEs
03/01/2013