eSentire, a Cambridge, Ontario, Canada-based threat protection solutions provider, raised C$14m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Georgian Partners with participation from Cisco Investments, Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund, Edison Partners and VentureLink.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its technical capabilities and services into new sectors including critical infrastructure and IP based markets such as technology and bio-pharma. It plans to hire 40 new positions to its research facility.
Led by CEO J.Paul Haynes, eSentire provides Active Threat Protection solutions and managed security services to more than 450 financial services firms, legal, extractive and healthcare organizations.
Its flagship prdouct, Network Interceptor, delivers continuous monitoring, real-time threat detection and containment technology as a service with human threat analysts on a 24x7x365 basis.
FinSMEs
16/09/2014