Dome9 Security, a Menlo Park, CA-based security and compliance platform for public clouds, raised $8.3m in Series B financing.
The round was led by ORR Partners with participation from JAL Ventures, Pinnacle and Lazarus Israel Opportunity Fund and existing investor Opus Capital Ventures.
The company, which has raised a total of $13m to date, intends to use the funds to grow its sales and marketing efforts, and expand its product portfolio for purpose-built cloud security solutions.
Led by Zohar Alon, CEO & Co-Founder, Dome9 Security provides a platform to protect cloud infrastructure. It leverages cloud-native technologies to allow users to visualize security risks, verify and enforce security policies, and remediate threats to ensure continuous secure application delivery in cloud.
Dome9’s self-managed cloud service is trusted by more than 250 enterprise customers to protect clouds over Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows Azure, IBM/Softlayer and many others.
In addition to the funding, the company also announced the appointment of several industry veterans to its board: Avery More, Founder and Managing Partner of ORR partners, seed investor and board member at SolarEdge (NASDAQ: SEDG) joined as Chairman of the Board along with Joshua Levinberg, Founder and Managing Partner at JAL Ventures, and co-founder of Gilat Satellite Networks (NASDAQ: GILT). Venture investor and Silicon Valley executive Herb Madan also participated in the round and has joined the advisory board.
Additionally, Dome9 added Robert (Bob) Darabant as Chief Revenue Officer.
FinSMEs
02/10/2015