Cyber Security Startup Fireglass Raises $20M In Series A

January 27, 2015 | Israeli cyber security startup Fireglass today announced its $20 million Series A funding round, led by Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Singtel Innov8. Serial cyber security entrepreneurs Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar, also participated in the round, which will enable the Tel Aviv startup to expand its R&D efforts and build sales, marketing and support teams in North America and Europe. Founded in 2014, by CEO Guy Guzner, formerly of Check Point and CTO Dan Amiga, formerly of Schneider Electric, Fireglass is developing enterprise network security solutions by eliminating web attack surfaces of both users and applications. The company’s products will aim to protect against known and unknown (zero-day) attacks, and also reduce operational overhead by consolidating an existing security solutions. Guzner said in a statement, “We are seeing an outstanding response from deployments at Fortune 500 enterprises looking to boost and consolidate their existing protection measures, and we’re proud to offer a solution that enables businesses to operate both productively and securely.”