Illumio

Founder / s: PJ Kirner, Andrew Rubin
Key people: Andrew Rubin (CEO), PJ Kirner (CTO & Founder), Alan Cohen (Chief Commercial Officer), Scott Downie (Vice President of Support and Services), Ben Verghese (VP, Engineering) and Matthew Glenn (VP, Product Management)
Employees: 101 – 250

Illumio is a data center and cloud security company led by veterans with deep experience in virtualization, networking and security hailing from industry leaders such as VMware, Cisco, Juniper, McAfee and Nicira.

The company was founded in January 2013 and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Formation 8, AME Cloud Ventures, DCVC and other prominent Silicon Valley investors.

Illumio’s Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) is completely independent of basic infrastructure and communicating visibility and control over workloads running in any data center or cloud environment. It computes security policies and extra they are provisioned accurate understanding and consistent adaptation to changes in the infrastructure and Applications. Innovative organizations are using Illumio ASP to operate at speed, while ensuring that security keeps pace

History

Illumio was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.

The first $ 8 million round of venture capital was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Steve Herrod, former CTO of VMware and managing director of General Catalyst Partners led the company’s $ 34.5 million round with participation by Formation 8, Data Collective, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang. BlackRock and Accel a $ 100 million round with participation from a number of investors including private investors John W. Thompson, Jerry Yang and Marc Beniof as well as previous investors.