page_title: Ziften
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ziften / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Ziften Headquarters; WeWork Austin Building; Austin, Texas
context_page_description: Ziften was a cybersecurity software company based in Austin, Texas, United States. The organization's endpoint protection platform is designed to provide advanced anti-virus, endpoint detection and response, and endpoint visibility and hardening for enterprise laptops, desktops, servers and cloud. Ziften ceased operations in the fall of 2019.
context_section_description: Ziften was founded in 2009 by Mark Obrecht who previously founded WholeSecurity, a behavior-based security and anti-phishing company that sold to Symantec in 2005.
  In July 2011, Ziften raised $5.8 million in capital in a Series A round from Trellis Partners and Fayez Sarofim & Co. In May 2012, Ziften raised $5.5 million in capital in a Series B round from Fayez Sarofim & Co. In July 2015, Ziften raised $24 million in capital from New York-based Spring Mountain Capital LP and Fayez Sarofim & Co. In April 2017, Ziften raised an additional $14.7M from Trousdale Ventures. The organization's total funding to date is $50M.
  Mike Hamilton, previously Ziften's chief product officer, was appointed CEO in June 2018.
caption: Ziften Headquarters; WeWork Austin Building; Austin, Texas
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