– USA, NY / AUSTRALIA, Sydney – Kasada, a leading web traffic security solution and services provider, today announced that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Cybersecurity venture capital specialist Ten Eleven Ventures along with existing investors Main Sequence Ventures and Westpac’s venture capital arm, Reinventure also participating.
The company also announced that Alex Doll, Managing Partner at Ten Eleven has joined Kasada’s board of directors.
“Bot-driven cyber attacks are costlier and more problematic than most businesses realize. When we met the Kasada team, we immediately understood the potential in their elegant new approach, dedicated to defending enterprises against hostile synthetic traffic and continuously protecting the most critical assets of businesses. We are greatly encouraged by Kasada’s traction and what we heard from early customers about Kasada’s superior solution. We look forward to helping them as they expand globally,” said Alex Doll.
The New York and Sydney-based company plans to use the proceeds to fuel its continued rapid U.S. expansion and new product development.
Founded in Australia by Sam Crowther in 2015, Kasada staked its claim to the U.S. market in 2019 with the establishment of its New York-based U.S. headquarters and the naming of veteran cyber industry executive Pascal Podvin as CEO. Today’s announcement will fuel Kasada’s next phase of expansion, allow Kasada to build out its sales and marketing organization and enable it to continue to invest in new product development.
Podvin described the company’s offer as “a new-generation solution that puts internet control and safety back in the hands of human beings.”
Sam Crowther said, “Kasada’s solution invisibly foils even the most pernicious and often unsuspected cyber traffic problems while preserving an effortless customer journey. Many companies use CDN or WAF, or legacy cybersecurity vendors to protect against malicious automation. When we entered the market, the norm seemed to be incomplete, inefficient, easy-to-detect tools that are not only inadequate but also costly to deploy and maintain, as well as adding friction and latency to the user experience.”
Kasada delivers a solution specifically architected to address the biggest online business challenges—data-scraping and API security for a variety of markets, including eCommerce, hospitality and financial services.
“Today, as online business increasingly becomes the main or even the only viable channel, there is an attendant surge in scraping and other automated and often undetected attacks that target the most strategic and vital issues facing companies—from their competitiveness and stock value to their brand and their ability to understand their customer segments. Defending against scraping and the damage it inflicts should be on the agenda of every C-level business executive and every board room,” said Podvin.
Kasada points to Intellectual Property and price scraping as creating direct, persistent, on-going damage, for instance by preventing businesses from selling when their prices are systematically undercut. Scraping issues, often unseen and unknown, are not just CISO-level concerns.
About Ten Eleven Ventures
Ten Eleven Ventures is the original venture capital firm focused solely on investing in digital security. The firm invests globally and at all stages, from seed to growth (the latter via its Joint Investment Alliance with KKR). Since its founding in 2015, Ten Eleven Ventures has raised nearly $500M and invested in 23 leading cybersecurity companies including Twistlock, Verodin, Cylance, KnowBe4, Darktrace, and Ping Identity.
For more information: https://www.1011vc.com/
About Kasada
Operating globally since 2015 and trusted by enterprises worldwide, Kasada gives internet control and safety back to human beings through its category-defining web traffic integrity solution. With Kasada, even the stealthiest cyber threats are foiled, from login to data-scraping across the web, mobile, and API channels. Scalable up to multi-billion-dollar companies, onboarding in just minutes and designed to deliver clear ROI in multiple departments, Kasada’s solution invisibly defends and enhances critical business assets while ensuring optimal online activity, with immediate and lasting web traffic integrity. Kasada is based in New York and Sydney, with offices in Melbourne, San Francisco, and London.
For more information: https://www.kasada.io
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