The A Series round was led by Accelerate IT Ventures (AITV), Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Grayhawk Capital and Generation Ventures. Advancing its vision of the app as an endpoint, Blue Cedar will use the funds to accelerate its R&D investment to deliver MDM-agnostic, agentless, military-grade security for CISOs, while respecting the privacy of end-users and providing them with a consumer-grade ‘tap & go’ connectivity experience.
‘There is overwhelming evidence from industry that the use of apps for accessing organizational data is growing at an unprecedented pace, while the number of devices under management is declining within the extended enterprise,’ said Anik Bose, General Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures. ‘This is a strong and unmistakable signal that CIOs and CISOs who realize that the app is the new endpoint will be uniquely positioned to deliver superior results to their organization. We are pleased to be able to partner with Blue Cedar Networks to help them deliver this vision to their customers. ”
Anik Bose of BGV, Brian Nugent of AITV, and Sherman Chu of Grayhawk Capital are joining the Blue Cedar Board as part of the Series A round
Built to the Extended Enterprise
Blue Cedar’s Atlas Platform delivers strong, transparent app security without the use of device agents, as currently required by existing management and remote access tools. This gives an enormous advantage to organizations that are either unwilling or unable to place proprietary and intrusive agents on their users’ devices. In addition to being completely non-intrusive, the Atlas Platform also greatly simplifies user registration, certificate-based and biometric authentication, FIPS-certified data encryption and secure multi-protocol connectivity. This unique and powerful combination makes Atlas the fastest, easiest and most secure platform for organizations to deploy apps to employees and non-employees across the extended enterprise.
‘The ability to secure data on unmanaged devices enables CIOs to deliver transformative apps to their partners, suppliers, customers and other extended enterprise users,’ said Brian Nugent, General Partner at Accelerate IT Ventures, who is also a Mocana investor, whom Blue Cedar spun out earlier this year. ‘We are well acquainted with Atlas and the Blue Cedar management team through our work with them over the past year, which has made us particularly keen to partner with Blue Cedar to launch a new business aimed at creating a new market with this proven platform. ”
Strong and Growing Customer Footprint and Ecosystem Partner
More than 150 customers, including some of the world’s leading financial services, wireless and telecommunications organizations, CPG, manufacturing, healthcare and government, are already using the Atlas Platform. It also has a vibrant partner ecosystem comprised of leading technology companies, including SAP, Unisys and Apperian. More than one million users already consume Atlas-backed apps
‘It is clear that the vast majority of medium and large organizations are just scratching the surface of app security by delivering email and basic file sharing services,’ said John Aisien, CEO of Blue Cedar Networks. ‘By delivering on our vision of the app as an endpoint, we will continue to provide our clients with game-changing capabilities to help them realize their goal of becoming modern, digital organizations. ”
Blue Cedar Networks
Blue Cedar Networks was founded on the principle that the app is the optimal endpoint of control for a modern organization. Atlas Platform provides customers with the most secure, scalable, and user-friendly capabilities to securely and seamlessly connect and protect their enterprise apps across the extended enterprise—user populations of employees and non-employees who can drive or derive value from such apps and data.
Blue Cedar Networks has more than 150 customers across all major vertical industries, including some of the world’s largest financial services, wireless and telecommunications services, CPG, manufacturing, healthcare and government organizations. Visit www for more information. Bluecedar’s Come on,
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