AGARI, formerly known as Authentication Metrics, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of a solution designed to protect brand reputation, eliminate email threats, and prevent the loss of sensitive data, raised $2.5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Alloy Ventures, with participation from Battery Ventures, First Round Capital and Greylock Partners.
The company intends to use the funds to scale its cloud-based Email Trust Fabric, which is designed to provide real-time protection to major brands in the Financial, E-Commerce, and Social Media sectors.
Led by founder and CEO Patrick Peterson, AGARI collects terabytes of email data from sources across the Internet to create a cloud-based solution to assess, visualize, and protect against email threats to brands, such as phishing and other fraud.
FinSMEs
02/11/2011