![]() Prior to co-founding LightCyber, Giora co-founded and served as CTO at MeterLive, a consumer insights and audience measurement company, and before that he was Director of Product Management at BQR. His research in the fields of computer vision and physics has been published in Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and the International Journal of Computer Vision, and he holds a patent in the field of image processing. His broad range of technology experience spans network analysis, cyber-security, algorithmic coding and mission critical systems. For nearly a decade, he served as an officer in an elite technological unit in the Israel Defense Forces. Giora is a serial entrepreneur with many years of technological and managerial experience. ![]() Up until recently Giora was working at PANW as VP of Product Management. They have a strong track record of building category-defining companies, and we see that they have the same passion to scale Transmit Security to become a major force in identity.įor all these reasons and more, we’re excited to announce our participation in Transmit Security’s recent $543 million Series A round alongside investors including Insight Partners, General Atlantic, and Goldman Sachs.Giora Engel, is the co-founder and CEO of Apiseq, and was the co-founder and CPO of LightCyber, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks. The Citi Ventures team has known Mickey and Rakesh for several years, and we are thrilled to partner with them as investors. Together, they have already bootstrapped Transmit Security to significant size (about 200 employees as of June 2021). Rounding out Transmit Security’s incredibly seasoned leadership team is CTO Eldan Ben Haim, who was also CTO of Trusteer. CEO and co-founder Mickey Boodaei and President and co-founder Rakesh Loonkar are serial entrepreneurs who co-founded fraud detection startup Trusteer-which sold to IBM for $1B in 2014-and teamed up again to found Transmit Security. ![]() Transmit Security’s bold, password-free vision is driven by a leadership team with the determination and domain experience to back it up. Passwordless authentication is an enormous market, and with Transmit Security’s deep authentication expertise they are well positioned to lead in this domain as well. It also eliminates the need to store passwords, removing a point of vulnerability to hackers and reducing the liability of the enterprise. But what if your device could talk to your app and authenticate you there as well, eliminating the need for a separate username and password? Transmit Security’s BindID does just that, creating a win-win for end users and enterprises by sparing consumers yet another password combination and helping enterprises deliver a better identity experience. Seeking to “rid the world of passwords,” Transmit Security offers a centralized user authentication tool that has won the company a leadership position in identity orchestration-and now they are tackling “passwordless authentication” as well.Ĭurrently, to use many mobile apps you must prove your identity first to your device and then again to your app. Account recovery also contributes to fraud, as 85% of account takeovers happen through that process.Įnter Transmit Security. ![]() 55% of consumers say they’ve stopped using a website because the login process was too complex, and 92% say they’d rather leave a website than go through the hassle of recovering or resetting their login credentials. Many businesses are still unaware of the negative impact a suboptimal identity experience has on their business, revenue, and customer loyalty, however. For enterprises, the cost associated with passwords and the difficulties they cause is only growing. For individuals, authenticating their identity online can be a major nuisance: they have to remember passwords and answers to security questions, click on CAPTCHA images, etc. ![]()
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