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Isovalent Recognized as One of Cybersecurity's Fastest-Growing Companies in Fortune Cyber 60

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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Andreessen Horowitz, CNCF, Adobe, Policy, IKEA, EBPF, Bell Canada, Sky, Capital One, DNS, General partnership, CPU, TLS, Software-defined networking, Linux, HTTP, Nicira, VMware, Telemetry, Video game, Quadrilateral, Palantir, Kubernetes, Isovalent hybridization, Cilium

The award recognizes "the most important venture-backed startups that offer enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions" and places Isovalent in the "Early-growth-stage companies" category.

Key Points: 
  • The award recognizes "the most important venture-backed startups that offer enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions" and places Isovalent in the "Early-growth-stage companies" category.
  • Isovalent's founding team includes the creators and maintainers for Cilium and eBPF, two open source projects that are taking cloud native networking and security by storm.
  • Isovalent is the creator of the Cilium project and provider of Isovalent Cilium Enterprise.
  • Isovalent is uniquely well-positioned to be the leading company for this critical new layer."

Isovalent Raises $40M Series B as Cilium and eBPF Transform Cloud Native Service Connectivity and Security

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Cloud, Bell Canada, Corporation, Adobe, VMware, CNCF, Telecommunication, Meta, Firewall (computing), Microsoft, Government, Insurance, GitHub, Nicira, M12, K, Netflix, IKEA, Intelligence, Capital One, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Cisco Systems, Capital, Sky, Andreessen Horowitz, Slack, CNI, Software-defined networking, Ecosystem, General partnership, Adoption, Video game console, Network equipment, Video game, Risk management, Azure, Isovalent hybridization, Palantir Technologies, Linux, Kubernetes, Cilium, Google

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Isovalent--the leading company behind the rapidly growing open source technologies Cilium and eBPF, today announced it has closed a $40M Series B funding round led by Thomvest Ventures. M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund) and Grafana Labs joined Google and Cisco as existing strategic investors in the company, highlighting the central position that Isovalent occupies in the eBPF and broader cloud native ecosystem. Additional investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Mango Capital, and Mirae Asset Capital.

Key Points: 
  • Microsoft's Venture Fund and Grafana Labs join Thomvest in backing Isovalent, creators of Cilium
    Isovalent is the creator of the Cilium project and provider of Isovalent Cilium Enterprise.
  • Platform engineering teams at major enterprises such as Adobe, Bell Canada, Capital One, Datadog, Palantir, IKEA, and Sky, are working with Isovalent to enable enterprise-grade connectivity in their cloud native environments.
  • eBPF and Cilium are leading open source technologies for scalable & secure connectivity in Kubernetes", said Deepak Bansal, Corporate VP, Azure Core Engineering.
  • Isovalent partners with leading enterprises and telcos via its commercial product: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise, which combines a hardened distribution of open source Cilium, proactive customer support, and additional enterprise-only networking, security, and observability capabilities.

Reach Adds Technology Innovator Alan S. Cohen as New Board Member and Expands Executive Team

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Thursday, August 4, 2022
Aruba Networks, Intel, Web 2.0, Airespace, Internet, CEO, Cisco Systems, IOT, Nicira, Partner, Juniper, Marketing, Electron, Safety, Netscape, RF, Solution, FORE Systems, Amazon Web Services, VMware, Mobile phone, Illumio, Salesforce, Reach

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reach, the high-performance wireless power-at-a-distance company, today announced that it has expanded its leadership team with the additions of Matt Glenn and Jeff White, who will lead Reach's product and go-to-market teams and help drive the commercialization of Reach wireless power solutions. 

Key Points: 
  • Matt brings hardware and software product management expertise to the team with extensive experience in enterprise, security, telecom, and consumer markets.
  • These execs have built and launched amazing, innovative products multiple times, and they're a perfect complement to our industry-recognized technology team."
  • WithAlan Cohen, Reach adds another board member with a stellar track record in incubating, scaling, and investing in early-stage companies.
  • "Wireless power is the second coming of the Internet, which will be a network of electrons and photonsinstead of packets," said Alan Cohen, DCVC Partner,and Reach Board Member.