FinovateFall 2018 / Tala Security
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: Tala is an early stage startup that enables enterprises to deliver the most secure and trusted web experience to their customers across PC and mobile devices. With Tala, enterprises can increase site conversion rates and customer satisfaction, prevent loss of customer data, and recover lost online revenue. Based in Silicon Valley, Tala is led by cybersecurity industry veterans.
How they describe their product/innovation: ClientPod is the industry’s first truly comprehensive web security solution, protecting against server-side and client-side attacks and even attacks from compromised third-party Javascript providers.
Tala’s breakthrough technology blocks malicious ads and links that can take customers away from your site and damage your brand, client-side malware and data exfiltration attacks that can steal your customers data, compromised third-party javascript code that can be used to run crypto-jacking attacks and several others. Tala’s product takes minutes to install and does not require any changes to your web application or the end user device.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Brad Burkle, VP Sales, brad@talasecurity.io, (858)-945-8015
Press: Aanand Krishnan, CEO, aanandk@talasecurity.io, (408)-655-8382
Website: talasecurity.io
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/talasecurity
HQ: Fremont, CA
Founded: August 2016
Product Demoed: ClientPod
Metrics: $3M raised, 6 employees, paid enterprise customers, pilots and POCs with some of the largest financial services firms
Presenters: Aanand Krishnan, CEO | Siddhesh Yawalkar, Sr. Software Engineer
- Key Executives
Aanand Krishnan (CEO), Brad Burkle (VP Sales), Sanjay Sawhney (VP Engineering), Swapnil Bhalode (CTO)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members
Steve Bennett (fmr CEO, Symantec & fmr CEO, Intuit), Ken Pelowski (Managing Partner, Pinnacle Ventures), Aanand Krishnan (CEO, Tala Security), Sanjay Sawhney (VP Engineering, Tala Security)
- Key Investors
Pinnacle Ventures, Inspovation Ventures, Steve Bennett (fmr CEO, Symantec), Mike Brown (fmr CEO, Symantec), Ron Gula (CEO & Founder, Tenable Security), Amit Mital (fmr CTO, Symantec), Sean Doherty (fmr Enterprise CTO, Symantec), Ray Rothrock (CEO, RedSeal Networks), Venture/Science
- Key Advisory Board Members
Steve Bennett (fmr CEO, Symantec & fmr CEO, Intuit), Haseeb Budhani (CEO, Rafay Systems), General Wesley Clark (fmr Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO), Sean Doherty (fmr Enterprise CTO, Symantec)
- Key Customers
Tala has paid and POC customers