CyberFend

Acquired

CyberFend is a cybersecurity company in Santa Clara, United States. It has 1 recorded funding round, most recently a Seed in December 2015.

Cyberfend delivers robust, real-time web and mobile security by…

Employees
1–10
Business Model
B2B
Last Round
SeedDec 2015
Rounds
1
Acquired by
Akamai TechnologiesDec 2016

Indexed holds 1 funding round and 4 investors for this company. The full record is or through the API.

About

Cyberfend offers a robust security solution to protect your web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks and fraudulent activity. Cyberfend's solution detects account take-over, payment fraud and the use of stolen credentials. All of these problems are relevant to every consumer facing web and mobile product/service. Cyberfend’s solution uses a new security paradigm – human cognitive science coupled with advanced machine learning. The result is a robust detection system with near zero false positives and false negatives. Today Cyberfend protects nearly a billion login and payment transactions every month for many large e-commerce, web and payment customers. Cyberfend's product is at the intersection of almost every single cutting edge technology today : a) Our core product employs heavy machine learning b) On the backed, our product is cloud based and deals with enormous scale (customers are directing significant portions of their traffic to us) c) On the front end we need to deal with both web and mobile (IOS, SDK) challenges.Please visit us at: www.cyberfend.com. Cyberfend is backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel and A Capital. Cyberfend was acquired by Akamai Technologies in December 2016.

Summary

It lists 1–10 employees. Its most recent funding was a Seed round in Dec 2015. Investors include Akamai Technologies, Y Combinator and SV Angel.

Funding & Exit History

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AcquisitionDec 2016

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Funding: Seed. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

Investors

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