Soluto
Soluto was a device protection software developer that helped users to identify and correct problems in Microsoft Windows. It developed an identically named product offering that integrated a mobile app, web portal, proactive communications, and remote device management into one service. As part of a premium service, Soluto enabled users to contact premier support technicians. Soluto offered access via the web as part of Soluto PC Management platform. History. Soluto was founded in 2008 and received $1.6M in seed funding from Proxima Ventures. This was followed-up with a $6.2 million second round of financing led  by Bessemer Venture Partners and joined by Giza Venture Capital, in March 2009. After the 2009 financisation, Israeli politician Naftali Bennett was brought in by investors as CEO. Bennett made several structural changes to the company, bringing on his brothers, Asher and Dan, as co-executives. Asher, a respected expert in cryptology and graduate of the Technion, worked on expanding the range of solutions, while Dan, a graduate of McGill University, brought expertise in managing technical startups, specializing in user protection, in their infancy. Acquisition. In 2013, Soluto was acquired by Asurion, LLC. Soluto ceased operation of the Soluto PC  Management platform on April 1, 2016. at the time of purchase it had 40 employees. Funding. Soluto is funded by Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Giza Venture Capital, Proxima Ventures, Crunch Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Initial Capital, and angel investors including Chris Dixon, Yuval Neeman , Saar Gillai and Nadav Zohar. Soluto was purchased by Asurion on November 12, 2013, for a reported $130 million. Awards. Soluto won TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010. Soluto was named one of the 2010 Always On Global Top Private Companies. Lifehacker named Soluto one of the most popular free Windows downloads of 2010. Features. The original  Soluto features are listed below. Dashboard. The Soluto dashboard has 6 sections, divided into categories of technical information that the user can see and remote actions the user can initiate: Downloaded Agent. Soluto uses a downloaded agent to transmit data to, and receive data from, Soluto's back-end servers. Data transmitted to Soluto includes the apps running during boot up, enabled browser toolbars and add-ons, hardware specs, and a specialized form of crash reports. The servers send back to the agent information such as solutions for recent crashes and the remote actions that were initiated by the user  and need to occur.