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February 2014, Bit9 acquired start-up security firm Carbon Black. At the time of the acquisition, the company also raised $ 38.25 million in Series E funding, bringing Bit9’s total venture capital raised to approximately $ 120 million. The company acquired Objective Logistics in June 2015. In
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Carbon Black was founded as Bit9 in 2002 by Todd
Brennan, Allen Hillery, and John Hanratty. The company's first CEO was George Kassabgi. In 2007, Patrick Morley, the former
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software that is designed to detect malicious behavior and to help prevent malicious files from attacking an organization. The company leverages technology known as the
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317:(IPO), Carbon Black raised approximately $ 152 million at a valuation of $ 1.25 billion. Prior to its IPO, the firm had raised $ 190M from investors including
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provider Confer for an undisclosed sum. Prior to the deal, Confer had raised $ 25 million in venture funding and had more than 50 employees. According to
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The company changed its name to Carbon Black on
February 1, 2016, after being known as "Bit9 + Carbon Black" for approximately two years.
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The company has approximately 100 partners. It has over 5,600 customers including approximately one-third of the
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This article is about the cybersecurity company. For the chemical compound, see
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Visitrend and would open a technology development center in downtown
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platform that analyzes customers’ unfiltered data for threats.
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August 2015, the company announced that it had acquired
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