Impermium acquired by Google
impermium.com
Impermium acquired by Google
1–10 of 23 posts
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#2So what exactly did they do?
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#3So what exactly did they do?
I guess burn some VC cash for a while and then get acquihired.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#4Mental Summarize:
Impermium is Joining Google!
January 15, 2014
When we founded Impermium three years ago, our mission was to help rid the web of spam, fraud, and abuse. By joining Google, our team will extend a special thank you to Accel Partners, AOL Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Data Collective, Freestyle Capital, Greylock Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Morado Ventures, and the Social+Capital Partnership.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#5So what exactly did they do?
Impermium protects SaaS application users from account hijacking and account compromise.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#6So what exactly did they do?
From TC: "[Impermium] had been building a risk-evaluation platform that would improve account management by identifying fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions"
I think they were used by Tumblr for anti-spam and catching bad registrations.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#7From Crunchbase:
Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup that protects over 1.5M sites and has processed over 8B total transactions in its 3-year history. The company’s advanced risk-evaluation platform improves account management by identifying fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions. It has proven successful at stopping fraudulent user account registrations in real-time — using a blend of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of malicious actors — for hundreds of transactions per second from many of the largest consumer Internet companies.
It looks like it was founded in 2010 by a few ex-Yahoo! spam guys and had raised $9mm in 2 rounds from the typical list of tech VCs. LinkedIn lists 20 employees, so probably 30ish total.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#8Google is on a shopping spree, Eh?!
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#9Is it just me or does anyone else feel lile they're thanking their customers for being guinea pigs for experimenting their WIP.systems. That the end game was always a Google acquisition and these customers were just a way to prove that something of value had been built. Now that it is done, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#10Is it just me or does anyone else feel lile they're thanking their customers for being guinea pigs for experimenting their WIP.systems. That the end game was always a Google acquisition and these customers were just a way to prove that something of value had been built. Now that it is done, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
the customers got something out of it too, no?