- Waltham, Massachusetts-based email security platform company GreatHorn announced it raised $13 million in funding co-led by RRE Ventures and .406 Ventures
GreatHorn, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based email security platform company, announced it raised $13 million in funding co-led by RRE Ventures and .406 Ventures. And there was participation from existing investors including Techstars Ventures, V1.VC, and Uncork Capital.
This funding round comes on the heels of its third consecutive year of triple-digit revenue growth and rapid expansion into the enterprise market. With this round of funding, GreatHorn plans to continue to build upon its position as an innovation leader in the email security space.
“With a fast-growing customer base and track record of best-in-class detection and innovation for today’s cloud-based email platforms, GreatHorn has changed the way the industry talks about email security,” said GreatHorn CEO Kevin O’Brien. “As we continue to meet customer demand and drive the market, we remain fundamentally interested in redefining email as a secure system for all users, and ensuring that organizations who have adopted cloud email platforms are not relying on outdated perimeter controls or simple user education to protect their most critical assets.”
GreatHorn was founded by O’Brien and CTO Raymond Wallace. Prior to launching GreatHorn, O’Brien previously held executive roles at Conjur and CloudLock. And Wallace worked as a software engineer for Yieldbot, Brainshark, Courion Corporation, and FluidTrade.
“RRE Ventures invests in passionate and tenacious teams that are building category-defining businesses,” added RRE Ventures general partner Raju Rishi. “Despite decades of experience and billions of dollars spent, the email security industry is no closer to making email safe for businesses. By rethinking how we approach email security, GreatHorn has delivered a platform that comprehensively protects enterprises against the rising sophistication of today’s threats. We’re excited to support GreatHorn as the company continues to build upon its current innovation and grow in the enterprise space.”
GreatHorn is the only 100% cloud-native platform that is dedicated to comprehensive email threat protection. And the GreatHorn Email Security threat detection and response platform safeguards organizations before, during, and after email attacks.
Unlike existing legacy tools that rely on reactive threat detection methods and binary perimeter-based analysis, GreatHorn secures enterprises from email threats at every vulnerable point from inline pre-inbox analysis through to the time of delivery to post-delivery during incident response and continuous analysis with integrated threat detection, protection, defense, and incident response.
“Since our initial investment in GreatHorn, we’ve witnessed how interest in the platform and its unique value proposition continues to explode,” explained .406 Ventures partner Greg Dracon. “With this additional investment, GreatHorn will be able to continue expanding its product leadership and accelerate its growth and penetration into the enterprise market.”
