Chennai: Soon after Facebook’s acquisition of Little-Eye-Labs, an Indian startup early this month, Google added Impermium, a startup with Indian pedigree into its assets. The firm is into cyber security space helping companies protect themselves spam, fraud, and abuse.
With offices in Bangalore and California the budding venture was founded by a team of three including two Indian Vish Ramarao and Naveen Jamal and Mark Risher, the CEO.
No further details on the deal were available as and the website of Impermium recommends directing all queries to Google.
The webpage of Impermium reads “Impermium is Joining Google!.” “By joining Google, our team will merge with some of the best abuse fighters in the world. With our combined talents we’ll be able to further our mission and help make the Internet a safer place. We’re excited about the possibilities” says the CEO Mark Risher on the note posted on the site, as reported by Times Of India.
The founding trios of Impermium were into ‘Yahoo’ prior to founding the Startup in 2010. Being into the Yahoo’s mailing service the founders have experience in dealing with spam, web security and fraudulent account creation. Jamal heads the Bangalore office while Ramarao and Risher are based in California.
The three year old firm received its series of funding worth $9 million from venture capitalist firms including Accel Partners, AOL Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
In an interview to Times Of India early last year, the CEO of the company said that they had built a number of services that worked as a risk-determination system. Imperimum calculates the severity of the risk based on parameters like where you accessed the account from, the device software and historical usage pattern of the links you're posting.
Impermium claims of a rich client base scoring 3 million including Tumblr, Pinterest, CNN, ESPN, Typepad and Washington Post.
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