Preempt Security raises $8 mln Series A funding

Preempt Security, the San Francisco network-security specialist, closed $8 million of Series A funding, which it plans to use to expand marketing and sales and speed product development. General Catalyst Partners, the Cambridge, Mass., investment firm, led the round; also participating were Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar, the founders of Trusteer, and Paul Sagan, former chief executive of Akamai. And the company named Heather Howland vice president of marketing. She had been VP marketing for Lacoon Mobile Security, where she helped position the company to be acquired by Check Point Software in 2015. Preempt says a number of its team members were part of Unit 8200, the Israel Defense Forces intelligence corps.

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