Illumio

Illumio is an enterprise data center and cloud computing security company. Illumio was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Funding

Illumio is backed by venture capital firms that have invested $142.5 million over three rounds of funding. The initial $8 million A round 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 B round with participation by Formation 8, Data Collective, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang.[2] BlackRock and Accel led the $100 million C round with participation from a number of investors including private investors John W. Thompson, Jerry Yang and Marc Beniof as well as venture capital firms Andreesesen Horowitz, Formation 8 and General Catalyst Partners.

As chief executive officer and founder, Andrew is responsible for the overall strategy, vision, and funding of Illumio. With expertise in the areas of network security and compliance management, Andrew is a frequent participant in panels, articles, and podcasts for leading industry events and publications.

Prior to Illumio, Andrew was president of Cymtec and led Business Development for VoiceNet, where he was responsible for sales strategy, business development activities, and customer relationship management. Andrew graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BSBA in Finance.