{"526561":{"#nid":"526561","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Info-Sec Startups by GT Alumni Top $100M in Funding","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECybersecurity startups \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crowdstrike.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003ECrowdStrike\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pindrop.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPindrop Security\u003C\/a\u003E -- born out of student reseach or led by Georgia Tech alumni -- are among a dozen companies nationwide that each have raised $100 million or more in funding since 2014, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPindrop Security is an anti-fraud and authentication system for call centers that was conceived by CEO \u003Cstrong\u003EVijay\u0026nbsp;Balasubramaniyan\u003C\/strong\u003E while a Georgia Tech student, working closely with professors \u003Cstrong\u003EMustaque Ahamad \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Patrick Traynor\u003C\/strong\u003E. CrowdStrike was co-founded by \u003Cstrong\u003EDmitri Alperovitch\u003C\/strong\u003E who earned his master\u0027s in Information Security degree at Georgia Tech. He is chief technology officer of the company today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECSO Online describes these two companies as among 12 that are \u0022best positioned\u0022 to capitalize on growth of the $75-billion global cybersecurity market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3057078\/security\/meet-the-100-million-cybersecurity-startups.html#tk.rss_techologybusiness\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead More\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA dozen cybersecurity startups have each raised $100 million or more in funding since 2014, according to \u003Ca title=\u0022venture capital\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dowjones.com\/products\/pevc\/\u0022 target=\u0022new\u0022\u003EDow Jones VentureSource\u003C\/a\u003E, and two companies by Georgia Tech alumni are among them.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two cybersecurity startups by Georgia Tech alumni are among a dozen nationwide that have raised more than $100 million in funding since 2014."}],"uid":"27490","created_gmt":"2016-04-19 09:07:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:21","author":"Tara La Bouff","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"526511":{"id":"526511","type":"image","title":"CrowdStirke and Pindrop","body":null,"created":"1461088800","gmt_created":"2016-04-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895298","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:58","alt":"CrowdStirke and Pindrop","file":{"fid":"205529","name":"top100logos.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/top100logos_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/top100logos_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":100343,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/top100logos_0.jpg?itok=H7DfX_NP"}}},"media_ids":["526511"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}