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What does GreatHorn do?
GreatHorn, is the world’s leading cloud communications security innovator. It is a new type of cloud security company which helps in the detection and prevention of credential theft attacks and of spear phishing in real time. It is a new style security platform which helps in prevention of email based attacks by helping the recipients know whether the email they received is safe or not. This company plugs directly into the current major email providers such as Office 365 and Google Apps in real time. It analyzes every single message for both of the indicators, the ones which company can see and externally observable ones of threat, depending on the large amounts of message data the company analyzes on everyday basis.
How much Greathorn was funded?
The company raised $2.25M on March 21, 2016 from Walter Winshall, Zelkova Ventures, SoftTech VC, v1 vc, Techstars Ventures, RRE Ventures and ff Venture Capital.
Previous funding
$275k on September 24, 2015 from Right Side Capital Management, Zelkova Ventures, v1 vc and Techstars.
What is next for GreatHorn?
The company plans to use the investment raised in its latest round for expanding its current and new product lines, for growing its operations in North America and for further accelerating its sales and marketing reach across the world.
More about GreatHorn
The company was founded on April 1, 2015 by Raymond Wallace and Kevin O’Brien. It has its headquarters in Belmont, Massachusetts. The company is the world’s 1st truly cloud native communications security platform. It offers unique, completely automated platform for the detection of advanced spear phishing attacks which email security gateways, traditional anti spam or anti- virus or cloud access security brokers miss. The company offers a comprehensive and advanced solution for those who want a balance between security and productivity. The company’s aim is to assist organization defend against the growing number of advanced attacks that target them everyday.
