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Seculert Raises $10M For Anti-Botnet Cure Seculert has raised $10 million in a Series B round from Sequoia Capital for its advanced protection threat technology designed to thwart malware attacks. Existing investor Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) also participated in the round. The company was initially founded with seed-funding from YL Ventures and now has $15.4 million in total funding. Seculert creates what amounts to an elastic data net, which detects back doors in a network, discovering malware attacks that have previously gone undetected. The service monitors botnet traffic, looking for a customer’s IP addresses in the botnet itself. If a customer’s IP address is discovered, then it means an attack is underway. The cloud has this aspect to it that dissolves the lines between services. For example, customers can upload their log files to the Seculert Cloud from other offerings, such as Blue Coat, Squid or others. Seculert represents the new emerging model in IT security.

HootSuite Raises $165M Series B Round From Insight, Accel And OMERS To Go Large On Enterprise Social Media Monitoring It was a little over a year ago when we reported that Vancouver-based HootSuite, the platform that lets enterprises manage social media accounts, was raising a $50 million round at a $500 million valuation. Fast forward one year later it looks like investors are instead tripling down: HootSuite is today announcing a Series B round of funding of $165 million to take its business to the next level. This latest round — led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from Accel Partners and existing investor OMERS Ventures — is one of the biggest for a startup this year, and brings the total raised by HootSuite to date to nearly $187 million. When it looked like the funding deal last year went quiet, I asked HootSuite’s CEO Ryan Holmes what was up, after he earlier didn’t deny the reports I’d heard. He told me that it was because the company decided didn’t need to raise the money at the time. Update: Some good comments from Holmes that draws together some of the pieces.