Cylance Raises $15M in Funding

Cylance, Inc., an Irvine, California-based global provider of cybersecurity products and services, raised $15m in funding.

Backers included Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital.

Led by Stuart McClure, CEO-President, Cylance Cylance provides companies, governments and end users with cybersecurity products and services, which leverage:
– a security process called Presponse™, an approach that couples the understanding of a hacker’s mentality with algorithmic intelligence and technology to be predictive and preventive against advanced threats, as well as
– a global user community and a team of security experts.

The company’s new Board includes Patrick Heim, Admiral William J. Fallon, and Alex Doll. Additionally, Cylance has established a Board of Advisors, whose members includes: Paul Forney (Invensys), David Willson (Army/NSA), Shane Shook (KPMG/PwC), Robert Bigman (CIA), Stewart Baker (Steptoe/NSA), Alex Nazaruk (GetCo), Michael Rauchman (GetCo), Eric Culp (formerly of ESRI), and Joseph Gabbert (formerly of McAfee and EMC).

FinSMEs

13/02/2013

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