- INKY Technology Corporation, a pioneer in next-gen email phishing protection, announced that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding
INKY Technology Corporation, a pioneer in next-gen email phishing protection, announced that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners to accelerate enterprise adoption, global expansion, and fuel innovation. Including this round of funding, INKY has raised a total of $31.6 million.
INKY utilizes domain-specific machine learning and computer vision techniques to identify and block zero-day phishing emails that get through legacy secure email gateways (SEGs). INKY — which is often deployed as the last line of defense before delivery to the end user’s inbox — blocks thousands of malicious phishing emails each month for a typical customer running an incumbent mail protection system.
And INKY also adds a novel color-coded banner to each email, providing end-users warnings, recommendations, and policy guidance along with a convenient “Report this Email” link that lets users report phish from their mobile devices with a single click.
“This Series B funding gives us the resources we need to serve the incredible demand we’re seeing from enterprise customers in particular, and will allow us to expand our go-to-market efforts globally,” said David Baggett, Co-Founder and CEO of INKY. “We’re excited to continue to invest in innovative new ways to protect companies of all sizes from email-borne threats of all kinds. INKY has seen phishing attacks more than double since the COVID-19 pandemic began, creating an even more urgent need for us to deploy our solution globally and at scale.”
Baggett is known as being one of the co-founders of ITA Software, which is an airfare search company that was acquired by Google in 2011 for $730 million. Now that technology powers Google Flights.
This investment comes as INKY is experiencing rapidly accelerating adoption across large global enterprises. In connection with the investment, INKY is expanding the company’s footprint across Europe, Asia and Latin America to bring INKY to the global market. And through a strategic buildout of the company’s channel and partner programs, INKY can now service businesses of all sizes looking to prevent disruptive phishing attacks.
“Phishing continues to plague companies of all sizes and remains the primary vector by which attackers steal money, intellectual property, and personally identifiable information,” explained Matthew Gatto, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “Despite the ever-increasing volume of phishing scams, incumbent vendors cannot solve this problem. INKY’s sophisticated machine learning-based approach to identifying phishing attacks provides enterprises with an effective weapon against phishing.”
