Cybersecurity company Semperis has secured $125 million in growth financing.
Semperis, an identity-driven cyber resilience and threat mitigation platform, announced a $125 million growth financing from J. P. Morgan and Hercules Capital. This investment will empower the company to enhance its product development and support its rapidly expanding global customer base.
Scott Bluestein, CEO and CIO at Hercules Capital shared: “ “Semperis is a clear leader in the urgently needed area of identity system defense, with machine-learning-based attack prevention, detection, and response. Leading organizations around the world depend on Semperis to safeguard their hybrid Active Directory environment, which is foundational to the IT infrastructure and heavily targeted by attackers.”
Jeff Bray, CFO of Semperis said: “As CISOs shift their focus towards securing and building resiliency into their identity infrastructure, we see enormous demand for specialized hybrid AD and Entra ID protection. Semperis, with new support from J.P. Morgan and Hercules Capital, and our existing team of world-class backers, KKR, Insight Partners, Ten Eleven Partners, Paladin, Atrium Health Strategic Fund, and others, will continue to drive innovations to disrupt cyberattacks. The growth financing complements an already strong balance sheet, allowing Semperis to accelerate the investment in R&D and expand our global footprint to meet market demand.”
About Semperis:
With a focus on cyber resilience, Semperis offers the industry’s most comprehensive identity system defense platform to significantly reduce the success rate of ransomware and other destructive attacks. For security teams tasked with protecting hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Semperis ensures the integrity and availability of critical enterprise directory services at every stage of the cyber kill chain and reduces recovery time by 90%.
Purpose-built for securing hybrid identity environments, Semperis’ patented technology safeguards over 100 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors. Leading organizations worldwide like Lenovo, Sanofi, and Starbucks trust Semperis to identify directory vulnerabilities, intercept ongoing cyberattacks, and rapidly recover from ransomware and other data integrity emergencies. In 2022 the company secured $200 million in a Series C round.
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