| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.08.2020 | Finmark wants to put sophisticated financial modeling within reach of startups | Finmark, a member of the Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, is not your typical YC startup. In fact company co-founder Rami Essaid has already built Distil, a security startup, and saw it through to exit when he sold the company to Imperva la... |
| 23.07.2019 | As tech giants face congressional investigation, states must step up regulatory oversight too | Tiffany Olson Kleemann Contributor
Tiffany Olson Kleemann is the chief executive officer of Distil Networks. She formerly served in executive roles at Symantec and FireEye and was deputy chief of staff for cybersecurity operations under Pre... |
| 06.06.2019 | Fitness Startup Peloton Officially Begins Its Path to IPO: Term Sheet | THE CLIMB TO IPO
Peloton, the home exercise equipment maker, has filed confidential IPO paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As my coworker recently characterized the company: “It’s the biggest thing in home exercise since... |
| 04.06.2019 | Cybersecurity veteran Imperva acquires Distil Networks to help thwart bot attacks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Security software veteran Imperva has announced plans to acquire Distil Networks, a cybersecurity startup specializing in blocking bot ... |
| 04.06.2019 | Security stays hot as Imperva grabs Distil Networks | Last week four security companies changed hands. The shopping spree continued this week with CDN company Imperva announcing it was buying bot mitigation startup Distil Networks. The companies did not share the acquisition price.
Imperva CTO... |
| 17.04.2019 | Tracking the continuing bad bot arms race | In 2018 bad bots accounted for one in five website requests (20.4 percent of web traffic), while good bots decreased slightly to make up 17.5 percent of traffic.
This is among the findings of Distil Networks' latest annual Bad Bot Report wh... |
| 28.02.2019 | 40 percent of ticketing site traffic comes from bad bots | If you've ever tried to book tickets for a concert, festival or event you will know that it can be something of a frustrating experience, and bots could be making it even more so.
New research from Distil Networks finds 39.9 percent of traf... |
| 05.11.2018 | Bots distorted the 2016 Election. Will the midterms be a sequel? | Tiffany Olson Kleemann Contributor
Tiffany Olson Kleemann is the chief executive officer of Distil Networks. She formerly served in executive roles at Symantec and FireEye and was deputy chief of staff for cybersecurity operations under Pre... |
| 28.06.2018 | One in every 17 mobile devices is used to conduct bad bot attacks | Cybercriminals are using mobile devices to avoid detection and execute a number of nefarious acts, according to a new report.
The study from bot mitigation specialist Distil Networks finds 5.8 percent -- around one in 17 -- of all mobile de... |
| 12.01.2018 | The Startups D.C. VCs and Investors are Watching in 2018 | Each year, we publish our own list of the local startups to watch in the coming year. Now, D.C. area VCs and investors are weighing in.
DC Inno reached out to a handful of local investors asking them to send a list of the startups they're w... |
| 19.10.2017 | Bicoastal bot detection company Distil Networks names new CEO | Distil Networks, a cybersecurity company that focuses on identifying and stopping increasingly advanced bots, marked Cybersecrity Awareness Month by announcing in a press release on October 11 that Tiffany Olson Jones will be the company’s ... |
| 13.07.2017 | New solution prevents bots from accessing API servers | Bots are often the culprits behind web scraping, brute force attacks, online fraud, account hijacking, data theft, and more. Often these attacks are made through the API servers that power public-facing websites and mobile applications.
A n... |
| 23.06.2017 | Here Are the 2017 Coolest Companies in D.C. | Last night at DC Fest, we crowned the winners of our 2017 Coolest Companies Competition as we rocked with White Ford Bronco, sipped on summer drinks and dined on D.C.'s best food trucks.
With Coolest Companies, we celebrate living, playing ... |
| 21.06.2017 | Top websites struggle to guard against sophisticated bot attacks | A report released today shows that, while an average of 16 percent of websites across all industries can thwart simple bot attacks, only five percent are able to properly protect against sophisticated attacks.
The study from bot detection s... |
| 01.06.2017 | Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks | Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor
Mahendra Ramsinghani founded Secure Octane Investments, which includes Demisto, CyberGRX and 16 other infrastructure and cybersecurity companies. Mahendra authored "The Business of Venture Capital"... |
| 19.05.2017 | Distil Networks Acquires Are You A Human | Distil Networks, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a bot detection and mitigation platform, acquired Are You A Human, a Detroit and NYC-based provider of web tools to analyze and understande how real humans interact with the internet.
T... |
| 18.05.2017 | New free plugin filters bot data from Google Analytics | Google's own bot filtering catches only a small percentage of the bot traffic that hits most sites, leading to traffic analysis data being skewed.
Bot detection specialist Distil Networks is launching a free tool designed to remove the bad ... |
| 18.05.2017 | Distil’s Are You a Human Acquisition Is Big Win for Tech Community | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Detroit’s nascent tech community got a significant validation today as Silicon Valley cybersecurity company Distil Networks announced it has acquired homegrown, Dan Gilbert-ba... |
| 26.04.2017 | What do we know about bad bots? | In 2016, approximately 185 million new Internet users went online, with the vast majority of these coming from nations like India. This represents a huge increase in the market. However, while the Internet population continues to grow, ther... |
| 03.04.2017 | Interested in working in tech? On the Market is here to help | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.
Chicago-based kCura builds software that enables custome... |
| 14.02.2017 | An open letter to President Trump from a Syrian-born entrepreneur | Dear President Trump: My name is Rami Essaid, and I’m cofounder and CEO of a cybersecurity company. We’re an American firm that helps hundreds of businesses, like Verizon, StubHub, and Glassdoor, block attacks on their websites. We’ve recei... |
| 04.10.2016 | Are political bots stacking the deck in the presidential race? | The morning after last week’s presidential debate, social media blew up with opinions on how each candidate fared and riffs on – sniff, sniff – the more interesting and bizarre moments. And, as to be expected, online polls weighed in on whi... |
| 15.08.2016 | Metapacket analyzes outbound network traffic to flag and block malware | Metapacket, one of YC’s current batch of startups, is hoping to get its SaaS on corporates’ list of essential threat detection software with a technique to stop malware attacks by analyzing outbound network traffic to determine whether it’s... |
| 03.08.2016 | Distil Networks Secures $21M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Distil Networks, Inc., the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, today announced that it has closed $21 million in Series C financing.
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| 02.08.2016 | Bot Detection & Mitigation Platform Distil Networks Raises $21M | Distil Networks, Inc., a bot detection and mitigation platform, closed a $21m Series C financing.
Backers included Silicon Valley Bank and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundry Group, and TechStars.
The company, which has ra... |
| 02.08.2016 | Distil Networks Raises $21M to Block Bots From Wrecking the Web | Arlington-based cybersecurity startup Distil Networks has closed a $21 million Series C funding round barely more than year after raising the same amount for its Series B funding.
"It was opportunistic," Distil co-founder and CEO ... |
| 02.08.2016 | Distil scores $21 million Series C to crush bad bots | Distil Networks, a company that helps discover and eradicate bad bots, announced a $21 million Series C round today.
Funders include new investor Silicon Valley Bank along with previous participants Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundry Group ... |
| 05.05.2016 | New York’s ff Venture Capital has raised a new, $54 million fund | New York-based venture firm ff Venture Capital, has raised $53.8 million for its fourth seed-stage venture fund, according to an SEC filing that shows fundraising began in the fall of 2014.
The firm had closed its third seed-stage fund fund... |
| 07.04.2016 | Basic API security measures are often overlooked | APIs are the glue that holds much of the digital world together, connecting systems, apps and data. But a new survey reveals that many organizations are failing to place enough emphasis on API security.
Research company Ovum in partnership ... |
| 24.03.2016 | The rise of the advanced persistent bots | Overall bad bot activity is decreasing, but the number of advanced persistent bots is up according to a new report.
The 2016 Bad Bot Landscape Report from Distil Networks reveals that 88 percent of all bad bot traffic has one or more charac... |
| 16.01.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 1/16/16 | Microsoft bought Event Zero; Bloomberg acquired Netbox Blue; Distil Networks purchased ScrapeSentry
Beijing Kunlun Tech, a Chinese gaming company, acquired a majority stake in Grindr, the social network dating app aimed at gay men. It bough... |
| 13.01.2016 | Distil Networks Gets Human Touch With ScrapeSentry Acquisition | Distil Networks has always been about about automated, intelligent bot detection. Rival ScrapeSentry has gone at it from a different angle, using human analysts to help customers understand bot behavior. Today those two approaches came toge... |
| 13.01.2016 | Distil Networks Buys ScrapeSentry | Distil Networks, Inc., a global provider of bot detection and mitigation solutions, acquired Stockholm, Sweden-based managed security services provider ScrapeSentry.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
ScrapeSentry’s team of security ... |
| 13.01.2016 | Distil Networks acquires Sentor’s ScrapeSentry to monitor malicious bot activity | Security company ScrapeSentry, which has offices in Sweden and the UK, has been acquired by US bot detection firm Distil Networks. No financial details were revealed.
ScrapeSentry, a spin-off of Sweden’s Sentor founded in 2006 and headquart... |
| 28.12.2015 | 10 Virginia Startups to Watch in 2016 | Virginia's quickly growing startup economy is set once again for a big year in 2016. With a hand from Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who has spoken at length about making the commonwealth a hub for cybersecurity and other tech startups, a number of ... |
| 10.12.2015 | Announcing This Year's 50 on Fire Winners | Tonight, we unveiled the winners of 50 on Fire, a collection of companies, CEOs, startups and entrepreneurs that are driving the District's innovation economy.
From high-powered investors like Revolution to booming restaurant chain &piz... |
| 17.10.2015 | How to protect yourself from cyberattack | - |
| 22.08.2015 | 8 steps for dealing with digital extortion | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Recently, the CEO of a business received an email... |
| 22.08.2015 | 8 steps for dealing with digital extortion | Recently, the CEO of a business received an email from an extortionist group known as DD4BC, notifying him that his company’s Web sites would face a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack if he didn’t pay 50 Bitcoins to the attackers w... |
| 30.06.2015 | Distil Networks Lands $21M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Distil Networks, Inc., the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, today announced that it has closed a $21 million round of Series B financing.
>> Click here for more funding data on Distil Networks
>... |
| 30.06.2015 | Distil Networks Raises $21M To Block Malicious Bots | Distil Networks, a company that analyzes website traffic and blocks malicious bots, announced a $21 million Series B round today.
Bessemer Venture Partners led the round and David Cowan from BVP will join the Distil Networks board of direct... |
| 30.06.2015 | Distil Networks' $21M Round Signals a 'Meteoric Rise' in Cybersecurity | A screenshot from Kings of Glory, Tencent's most popular game.
A screenshot from Kings of Glory, Tencent's most popular game.
Arlington, Va.-based cybersecurity firm Distil Networks has raised a $21 million Series B led by a new investor, B... |
| 30.06.2015 | Distil Networks Closes $21M Series B Financing | Distil Networks, Inc., an Arlington, VA- and San Francisco, CA-based provider of a bot detection and mitigation platform, closed a $21m round of Series B financing.
The round was led by new investor Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) with part... |
| 30.06.2015 | Distil Network, Interview with CEO Rami Essaid | Distil Network is already considered the global leader in bot detection and mitigation. Its just raised $21m Series B funding round will give the Arlington-based company new resources to continue to expand operations. In conjunction with th... |
| 30.06.2015 | Distil Networks Raises $21M to Expand Company | DC area cybersecurity company Distil Networks just announced $21M raised in a Series B Round. The round was led by new investor Bessemer Venture Partners, with help from existing investors Foundry Group, Techstars, ff Venture Capital, Idea ... |
| 14.05.2015 | Bots generate more internet traffic than humans | According to a new survey from cloud security provider Distil Networks humans accounted for only 40.9 percent of web traffic in 2014 with the remainder accounted for by bots.
This compares with 50.8 percent human traffic in 2013, however th... |
| 12.05.2015 | Twitter’s earnings leak is latest sign that ‘good’ bots are going too far | When Twitter’s disappointing earnings report was discovered and prematurely released by a financial intelligence firm on April 28, causing Twitter shares to tumble, it was more than a just a big oops for the social media giant. The affair h... |
| 26.04.2015 | Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation | Rami Essaid Contributor
Editor’s note: Rami Essaid is CEO and co-founder of Distil Networks, a bot detection and mitigation company.
On April 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook is in hot water with government regulators in si... |
| 21.04.2015 | 7 DC-Area Cybersecurity Startups to Watch | Here at DC Inno, we spend a lot of time tracking the red-hot cybersecurity sector in D.C., Virginia and Maryland, both in government and in business. But to get a sense of where security technology is headed, you need to look no further tha... |
| 10.03.2015 | Website CAPTCHAs are a big turn off for users | We're all familiar with CAPTCHAs, those images you have to retype as text to prove that you're a real person and not a bot. The bad news for businesses that use CAPTCHA on their sites is that it seems they're pretty effective at deterring h... |
| 03.03.2015 | Distil Networks Receives 3M Credit Facility | Distil Networks, Inc., an Arlington, Virginia-based provider of a bot detection and mitigation platform, recently received a $3m credit facility from Square 1 Bank.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand to the West Coas... |
| 28.01.2015 | Techstars raises new $150M Series A and seed fund | Techstars Ventures announced today that it has raised a new fund worth $150 million to invest in seed and Series A funding rounds. The fund will be used to invest alongside the venture capital community in companies coming out of the Techst... |
| 27.01.2015 | UPDATE: TechStars Ventures Raises $150 Million As It Expands Into Series A Investments | Update: This post has been updated to reflect the scope of Techstars Ventures’ investments. The fund will back not only graduates of its accelerator program, but also companies founded by mentors and former mentors.
Techstars has raised $15... |
| 28.05.2014 | Distil Networks Secures $10M in Series A |
ARLINGTON, VA, Worldwide leader in bot detection and mitigation, announced it has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Distil
>> To export Distil funding data to PDF and Excel, click... |
| 28.05.2014 | Arlington Bot-Blocker Startup Raises $10 Million | Arlington-based bot detector and blocker Distil Networksannounced that it had raised $10 million is Series A funding on Wednesday in a funding round led by the Foundry Group and Bullet Time Ventures, part of Techstars. The funding will help... |
| 28.05.2014 | Distil Networks’ $10M Funding Round Valued The Bot Detection Company At Around $30M | Bot detection startup Distil Networks announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series A. A source with knowledge of the deal says the round valued Distil at about $30 million.
The company declined to comment on the valuation, but co... |
| 28.05.2014 | Distil Networks Raises $10M in Series A Funding | Distil Networks, an Arlington, VA-based provider of a bot detection and mitigation platform, raised $10m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Foundry Group and Techstars’ Bullet Time Ventures, with participation from ff Venture Capital... |
| 10.03.2014 | This Is What Happens When Two Tech Writers Climb Into Robots And Fight | Contrary to what you may have heard, South by Southwest Interactive isn’t just about high-minded panels and keynotes filled with big ideas. No, sometimes startups do fun, goofy promotions like asking people to battle each other from inside ... |
| 09.03.2014 | I punched a TechCrunch reporter in the face, and I liked it (video) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Sometimes, you just have to throw down against th... |
| 24.10.2013 | Clean up your private cloud: Distil brings its bad bot protection to enterprises | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With more than 1.6 billion bots blocked, Distil N... |
| 18.03.2013 | Distil Raises Additional $200K via AngelList | According to reports (read here) Distil, an Arlington, VA-based provider of a Content Protection Network (CPN), raised an additional $200k in funding.
The funds were raised via AngelList‘s Invest platform.
The financing adds to the $1.8m se... |
| 10.03.2013 | Realty Mogul Won the HATCH Pitch Competition at SXSW | BY SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| 08.04.2008 | Security company Imperva raises $20M | Imperva, a company that provides application data security, has raised $20 million in a fourth round of financing. The company’s total funding is now $54 million.
We covered the Foster City, Calif.-company back in 2006, when chief executive... |
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