CipherCloud
| Industry | Information privacy |
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| Founded | (2010) |
| Founder | Pravin Kothari |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
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Key people
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Pravin Kothari, Founder & CEO John M. Jack, Board Gilles Samoun, Board |
| Website | www |
CipherCloud is a cloud security company based in San Jose, California. The company enables cloud services adoption while ensuring security, compliance and control. CipherCloud develops secure gateways that locally encrypt sensitive information before it is stored in cloud environments.
CipherCloud was founded in 2010 by Pravin Kothari, who previously co-founded ArcSight. The company launched in February 2011 and worked solely in Salesforce.com environments initially. It added Amazon Web Services integration in 2011. CipherCloud raised $1.4 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz later that year. CipherCloud released its Gmail encryption solution in June 2012. By September 2012 CipherCloud's platform could also encrypt Force.com, Chatter, Microsoft Office 365. It also launched Connect AnyApp, which allowed users to "simply specify fields on Web pages to be encrypted," and data format and operations would be preserved.
CipherCloud closed a $30 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures in December 2012.Deutsche Telekom also participated in the funding round through T-Ventures, the telecommunications company's venture capital arm. John M. Jack, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former CEO of Fortify Software, joined the CipherCloud board following the investment. The company opened its European headquarters in London, England in the same month. CipherCloud added an Australian headquarters in 2013.
In February 2013, CipherCloud joined Box Inc. (formerly Box.net), an online file sharing and cloud-content management service, to bring CipherCloud's encryption to file-sharing and file-hosting services such as Box. In January 2014, CipherCloud acquired CloudUp Networks. CloudUp Networks developed software that helped users track data as it moved through cloud environments and restricted that data from leaving the cloud without authorization.
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