Brightmail
AcquiredBrightmail was founded in 1998, is headquartered in San Francisco, United States, lists 51–200 employees, and has $47.8M in recorded funding across 3 rounds.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 1998
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- brightmail.com
- Total Funding
- $47.8M
- Last Round
- $12.8M Series BDec 2002
- Rounds
- 3
- Acquisition Date
- Jun 2004
Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. What counts toward funding.
Indexed holds 3 funding rounds and 6 investors for this company. The full record is or through the API.
About
Brightmail was a pioneering email security company founded in 1998 in San Francisco, providing anti-spam and messaging security software to enterprises and ISPs. It developed patented spam-filtering technology using probe accounts to harvest and analyze spam in real time. Brightmail was acquired by Symantec in 2004 for $370 million.
Summary
Brightmail is a Cybersecurity company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 1998. It lists 51–200 employees. It has raised $47.8M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $12.8M Series B round in Dec 2002. Investors include Accel, Symantec and Critical Path.
Funding & Exit History
Jun 2004
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Funding: Series A through Series B. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.
Investors
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