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Aorato

Acquired

Aorato was founded in 2012, is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, lists 1–10 employees, and has $11.0M in recorded funding across 2 rounds.

Headquarters
Herzliya
Employees
1–10
Founded
2012
Business Model
B2B
Total Funding
$11.0M
Last Round
$10.0M Series BJan 2014
Rounds
2
Acquisition Date
Nov 2014

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About

Aorato was an Israeli cybersecurity startup based in Herzliya, founded in 2012 by CEO Idan Plotnik, VP R&D Michael Dolinsky, and VP Professional Services Ohad Plotnik, all veterans of the IDF's cyber intelligence unit. The company built a context-aware, behavior-based Directory Services Application Firewall that profiled and predicted user activity to protect Active Directory deployments in hybrid cloud environments. Aorato raised $11 million from Accel Partners, Innovation Endeavors, and Glilot Capital Partners before Microsoft acquired it in November 2014 for roughly $200 million, later folding its technology into Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics.

Summary

Aorato is a Cybersecurity company based in Herzliya, Israel, founded in 2012. It lists 1–10 employees. It has raised $11.0M in total across 2 rounds, most recently a $10.0M Series B round in Jan 2014. Investors include Glilot Capital Partners, Microsoft and Accel.

Funding & Exit History

AcquisitionAcquisition by MicrosoftNov 2014

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Funding: Seed through Series B. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

Investors

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