Private | |
Industry | Security |
Genre | Hacking |
Founders | Derek Smith, Justin Call, Sumit Agarwal |
Headquarters | Mountain View, California, United States |
Key people
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Derek Smith (CEO) Shuman Ghosemajumder (CTO) |
Products | Security technology |
Website | shapesecurity.com |
Shape Security is a security company in Mountain View, California. It helps apps and websites change their source code constantly, to prevent automated attacks. Among other fields, it is involved in the healthcare industry.
After a Series A funding round, in February 2014, the company raised $40 million in Series C funding from Norwest Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures, and prior investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock, Google Ventures, TomorrowVentures and Allegis Capital.CNBC named it #23 on a list of 50 disruptor companies of 2017.
Cofounders include Derek Smith, Justin Call, and Sumit Agarwal. Smith became CEO, Call became VP of R&D, Agarwal became COO,Shuman Ghosemajumder is chief technology officer (CTO).Ray Rothrock is a board-member, as well as Ted Schlein and Gaurav Garg.