InteliSecure works out of the Denver Tech Center. Photos courtesy of InteliSecure.
A Denver-based cybersecurity company raised $8.1 million last month, according to SEC filings.
DTC-based InteliSecure used much of its latest raise to acquire U.K.-based information security provider Pentura on Oct. 28, the company reported.
InteliSecure President and CEO Rob Eggebrecht said Pentura is a great buy at a time when competition for cybersecurity employees along the Front Range has driven up salaries.
“Frankly, we’re outgrowing the Denver market,” Eggebrecht said. “There’s just pent-up demand for these security professionals.”
Pentura will complement InteliSecure’s existing ability to watch clients’ data around the clock, Eggebrecht said. That segment of the business, which is called managed security services, has been a key priority for investors, he said.
Eggebrecht said there are plenty of cybersecurity companies that ring the alarm when an outsider gets into a system. InteliSecure goes beyond that, he said, checking which files their clients’ own employees, vendors or contractors upload and download.
Rob Eggebrecht
So if an employee that has just been laid off downloads product launch data on a USB drive, for example, that would catch InteliSecure’s attention, Eggebrecht said.
“It’s a very intimate relationship we have with our customers,” he said.
InteliSecure customers pay on average $18,000 a month for 24/7 surveillance, Eggebrecht said, adding that the firm has charged as much as $100,000 a month to large customers that want InteliSecure employees to work exclusively with their company. Most employees working in that department monitor three to four customers at a time, Eggebrecht said.
InteliSecure was incorporated in 2002 under the name BEW Global and rebranded in 2014. The company currently employs 130 people in Denver and 40 people in the U.K., Eggebrecht said. The plan is to hire about 20 more employees across all locations in the near future. The company currently leases 20,000 square feet in the Denver Tech Center.
The $8 million funding round was led by Charlotte, North Carolina-based Frontier Capital, which has invested a total of $22 million in the company since June 2014, making it majority shareholder.
InteliSecure also closed $6 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank in October, Eggebrecht said, which it will use to develop software that automatically analyzes when a client’s employee uses software in an odd way. Right now, InteliSecure spots those patterns manually.
InteliSecure works out of the Denver Tech Center. Photos courtesy of InteliSecure.
A Denver-based cybersecurity company raised $8.1 million last month, according to SEC filings.
DTC-based InteliSecure used much of its latest raise to acquire U.K.-based information security provider Pentura on Oct. 28, the company reported.
InteliSecure President and CEO Rob Eggebrecht said Pentura is a great buy at a time when competition for cybersecurity employees along the Front Range has driven up salaries.
“Frankly, we’re outgrowing the Denver market,” Eggebrecht said. “There’s just pent-up demand for these security professionals.”
Pentura will complement InteliSecure’s existing ability to watch clients’ data around the clock, Eggebrecht said. That segment of the business, which is called managed security services, has been a key priority for investors, he said.
Eggebrecht said there are plenty of cybersecurity companies that ring the alarm when an outsider gets into a system. InteliSecure goes beyond that, he said, checking which files their clients’ own employees, vendors or contractors upload and download.
Rob Eggebrecht
So if an employee that has just been laid off downloads product launch data on a USB drive, for example, that would catch InteliSecure’s attention, Eggebrecht said.
“It’s a very intimate relationship we have with our customers,” he said.
InteliSecure customers pay on average $18,000 a month for 24/7 surveillance, Eggebrecht said, adding that the firm has charged as much as $100,000 a month to large customers that want InteliSecure employees to work exclusively with their company. Most employees working in that department monitor three to four customers at a time, Eggebrecht said.
InteliSecure was incorporated in 2002 under the name BEW Global and rebranded in 2014. The company currently employs 130 people in Denver and 40 people in the U.K., Eggebrecht said. The plan is to hire about 20 more employees across all locations in the near future. The company currently leases 20,000 square feet in the Denver Tech Center.
The $8 million funding round was led by Charlotte, North Carolina-based Frontier Capital, which has invested a total of $22 million in the company since June 2014, making it majority shareholder.
InteliSecure also closed $6 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank in October, Eggebrecht said, which it will use to develop software that automatically analyzes when a client’s employee uses software in an odd way. Right now, InteliSecure spots those patterns manually.
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