Pomerium Announces $13.75M Series A led by Benchmark and Launches Pomerium Zero
June 20 2024 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Pomerium, the NextGen Access platform, today announced it has
raised a $13.75 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark,
and general partner Eric Vishria will join the company’s board.
Return investors Bain Capital, Haystack, SNR, and Oleg Rogynskyy,
founder of People.AI, also participated in the round. Today
Pomerium is also announcing its newest security platform offering,
Pomerium Zero, a version of Pomerium offering both on-premise and
hosted benefits when securing clientless connections to web
applications and services without a corporate VPN.
After spending more than a decade in cybersecurity, CEO and
founder Bobby DeSimone recognized flaws in the standard approach to
enterprise security. Instead of focusing on a network-centric
approach, Pomerium goes with an application-centric approach for
seamless, context-aware access, eliminating the corporate VPN while
providing faster, more secure access.
“I founded Pomerium because your security solution is only good
if it's usable – if it makes your employees’ lives harder, they’ll
simply disable it or find a workaround,” says Pomerium CEO and
founder, Bobby DeSimone. “Our clientless access approach means
security becomes invisible to the user.”
Pomerium is an access platform that serves as a gateway between
users and resources they need, ensuring only authorized individuals
can reach protected assets. Acting as an intermediary, Pomerium
proxies the traffic between users and resources, brokering access
without ever exposing the resource directly to the user. By
continuously verifying identity, access permissions, and context,
Pomerium offers a more secure alternative to traditional
session-based access solutions.
This architecture not only enhances security but also boosts
productivity, benefiting developers, IT teams, and end-users alike.
Pomerium ensures complete data privacy by handling data decryption
and inspection within the company's own infrastructure, reducing
the risk of exposing sensitive information to third-party provider
breaches.
“Pomerium, with open source at its core, is poised to create a
massive shift in the way enterprises evaluate and buy
cybersecurity,” said Eric Vishria, General Partner at Benchmark.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a security product speed up
organizations instead of slow them down. Bobby and his team have
done the impossible and created a security product that everyone in
your company actually likes to use.”
Pomerium’s innovative approach is already transforming tech
companies with cybersecurity companies like ExtraHop relying on
Pomerium to secure their deployments. Companies report faster
application deployment times after integrating Pomerium’s unified
access control, making Pomerium unique in the security industry as
a workflow and productivity enabler. The core values of being
better, faster, and safer than the other options on the market make
Pomerium the desired solution for companies trying to balance
security with productivity in the current landscape of data
breaches and ransomware hacks.
To date, Pomerium has surpassed more than 1 billion Docker
pulls, and millions of requests are handled through the platform to
serve access for thousands of users daily. With the new funding and
support from Benchmark, Pomerium intends to scale its team to meet
this growing demand, and continue enhancing its product as it
expands further to serve companies of all sizes across the
globe.
For more information on how Pomerium can revolutionize your
organization’s security and access management, visit
pomerium.com.
About Pomerium
Pomerium is a NextGen Access platform, built on the premise that
access control requires fundamental rethinking in a world where
networks can no longer be trusted. With an application-centric
approach to security, Pomerium helps companies operate faster,
better, and safer. Businesses of every size, from startups to
Global Fortune 2000 companies, rely on Pomerium for their access
control needs. Founded in 2019, Pomerium is backed by Benchmark,
Bain Capital, Haystack, SNR, and Oleg Rogynskyy.
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