UK cyber security company Darktrace embarks on funding round to secure $400m valuation April 10, 2016 UK cyber security company Darktrace has turned to Silicon Valley in a bid to secure funding which would see the company valued at $400m (£283.2m). The company, which is headquartered in both Cambridge, UK, and San Francisco, USA, was founded in 2013 by mathematics and computer specialists from the University of Cambridge and intelligence experts from MI5 and GCHQ. [...]
Bloomberg innovators 2016 list: These are the most innovative businesses in the UK – From coffee creators to fintech leaders January 26, 2016 More than 50 businesses have been named the most innovative in Britain credited with changing the way we live, work and think. Leading fintech startups, creative coffee makers and bionic hand creators, are just some of those to have been chosen by a group of leading investors and entrepreneurs including Saul Klein and Rohan Silva. [...]
The firms benefiting from the cybercrime arms race: NCC, Sophos and Darktrace make UK a cybersecurity leader January 21, 2016 Cybercrime fears are on the rise but it’s not bad news for everyone: the IT security sector is booming. With high-profile hacks against firms like JD Wetherspoons and TalkTalk exposing hundreds of thousands’ personal and financial data, and government and big business alike have been racing to tackle the growing threat, with the UK doubling [...]
World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers: Transferwise and Mike Lynch’s Darktrace among four UK firms chosen August 5, 2015 Four UK companies have been named among the most pioneering tech companies in the world by the World Economic Forum (WEF), following in the footsteps of Google and Twitter. Billion-dollar FinTech startup Transferwise and Mike Lynch's cybersecurity startup Darktrace are two of the high-profile UK companies selected by a panel of judges identifying the startups [...]
Lynch invests in cyber security September 16, 2013 BRITISH technology guru Mike Lynch yesterday invested £1bn in cyber security firm Darktrace, praising the firm’s “radically different” approach. Lynch rose to fame after founding Autonomy, a firm sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for £7.1bn. He has since set up a fund, Invoke Capital, to invest in the sector. “Darktrace brings a radically different solution to [...]