vArmour Lands $41M Series D Round

What does vArmour do?

vArmour, is the leading data center and cloud security company that produces application aware micro segmentation with advanced security analytics. The company leads in data defined perimeter security built for the virtual, mobile and cloud dominated world. It  is over the regular perimeter, threats are more sophisticated and CIO’s need more control and visibility of their data. The company is founded by tech and security experts from Netscreen, Silvertail, Juniper and RSA.

How much vArmour was funded?

vArmour raised $41M in Series D on May 24, 2016 from Allegis Capital, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Work-Bench, Menlo Ventures, Telstra, Citi Ventures,  Highland Capital Partners and Redline Capital.

Previous funding

$6M in Series A on January 15, 2013 from Highland Capital Partners

$15M in Series B on December 14, 2013 from Menlo Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Vanedge Capital and Draper Nexus Ventures.

$21M in Series C on August 20, 2014 from Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Work-Bench, Citi Ventures and Draper Nexus Ventures

What is next for vArmour?

The company plans to use the latest funding raised for expanding its business all over the world and for accelerating software distribution of its DSS- Distributed Security System all over the world, through strategic partners in North America, EMEA and Asia- Pacific. With DSS, organizations can achieve application layer visibility and control of their applications, network and users for preventing, detecting and responding to cyber-attacks and breaches in cloud environments and data center.

More about vArmour

vArmour was founded in 2011 by Roger Lian and Michael Shieh. It has its headquarters in Mountain View, CA. The company is backed by top investors including Menlo Ventures,Highland Capital Partners, Citi Ventures, Work-Bench Ventures, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Allegis Capital, Telstra and Redline Capital. The company’s DSS is deployes in a many of the world’s largest banks, government agencies, telecom services, health care providers etc.