Veriflow, a start-up based in San Jose, announced $8.2 million in Series A funding for its work in network breach and outage prevention.
Veriflow said it uses formal mathematical network verification to eliminate change-induced network outages and breaches. The technique was created by a team of computer science professors and Ph.D. students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The funding round was led by Menlo Ventures and included current investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
“The feedback from customers and analysts indicates the market is ready for a new approach to network breach and outage prevention. Our use of mathematical network verification, grounded in data-plane information, gives customers a proactive approach to identifying vulnerabilities before they are exposed to catastrophic problems,” said James Brear, president and CEO of Veriflow. “Veriflow provides a comprehensive view of the network that gives administrators the confidence to make changes without fear of damaging critical services and layers of defense. We’ve spent several years developing our innovative technology, and this funding will enable us to hire key talent, bring our product to market more quickly and expand into new markets.”
Veriflow’s automated approach predicts how and if network policies will be violated before an incident occurs.
- Veriflow exited stealth mode in April 2016 with $2.9 million in initial investor funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense.
- Veriflow is led by James Brear, who was previously CEO of Procera until its successful acquisition in August 2015, along with the company’s founders, who include Fulbright and Alfred P. Sloan fellows and an ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star awardee.