Brightmail
Acquired
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 1998
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- brightmail.com
- Total Funding
- $95.6M
- Last Round
- $12.8M Series BDec 2002
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.
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