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Tuesday, April 09 2019 - 22:00
AsiaNet
Expanse Announces $70 Million Series C Funding, Led by TPG Growth
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

  -- Company's explosive growth includes over $100 million in federal contracts 
across all military services, multiple Fortune 10 customers, and tripled sales 
year-over-year since launch 

Expanse ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2428272-1&h=4239570630&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.expanse.co%2F&a=Expanse 
), an Internet information technology (IT) operations management platform, 
announced today that it has raised $70 million in Series C funding led by TPG 
Growth. The round also welcomes investments from Arianna Huffington, Peter 
Thiel, Egon Durban, Taylor Glover, Sam Palmisano, as well as return investments 
from NEA, IVP, Founders Fund, and MSD Capital.

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While more than $500 billion per year is spent on internet connectivity and 
related IT services, organizations have no central tool to manage all of their 
internet-connected assets. This inability to monitor all assets is the root 
cause of almost every major cybersecurity breach in the last decade. 
Nonetheless, organizations still typically utilize an error-prone process of 
populating spreadsheets with the help of many different employees and tools. 
The boundaries of enterprise networks will get increasingly complex, as there 
are expected to be three times as many internet-connected devices (28.5 
billion) by 2022 as there are people on the planet, according to a Cisco report 
( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2428272-1&h=1541653505&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cisco.com%2Fc%2Fen%2Fus%2Fsolutions%2Fcollateral%2Fservice-provider%2Fvisual-networking-index-vni%2Fwhite-paper-c11-741490.html&a=Cisco+report 
). Meanwhile, as more countries follow the European Union's lead with the 
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a greater demand and penalty will be 
placed upon businesses to govern their data and manage their networks in 
accordance with regulations.

This Series C funding validates Expanse's rapid success and significant market 
opportunity for the company's unique approach of indexing everything connected 
to the public internet to inform customers in real-time what they own, what's 
at risk, and how to protect their most critical assets. Since the launch of its 
Expander product, the company has amassed a deep, lucrative foundation of elite 
international customers across government, Fortune 500 companies, and internet 
service providers (ISP), including CVS/Aetna, PayPal, Capital One, Allergan, 
Hudson's Bay Company, the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, and the Departments 
of Defense, Energy, and State.

"We're seeing unprecedented traction because every large organization is unable 
to map the constantly changing boundaries of its network unless it's using 
Expanse," said Tim Junio, the CEO and Co-Founder of Expanse. "While internet 
services—SaaS, IaaS, IoT or public cloud—provide businesses cutting-edge tools 
for their problems, the underlying internet infrastructure these tools are 
built upon is broken. As organizations' reliance on these services grows, so 
too does their need to better understand, manage, and secure their information 
that flows across the internet's infrastructure—and we are the only company 
providing them an integrated solution to do so." 

"Today, Expanse provides an essential suite of services that every business 
should be using to understand and protect the true extent of their network," 
said Tim Millikin at TPG, who also helped lead their investments in Tanium, 
ZScaler, and Box. "We see immense potential in Expanse that puts them on a 
pathway to being one of the world's most impactful software companies. The 
company's underlying technology is uniquely positioned to serve as a platform 
that can serve a wide variety of purposes including governance, management, and 
more. This platform will help users better navigate and secure their technology 
infrastructure, and we are excited to help them grow."

"Enterprises don't know the edge of their network unless they're using 
Expanse," says Somesh Dash, General Partner at IVP, which committed 
significantly in the round. "Whether we're talking about security or 
governance, it's simply bad business if an organization cannot monitor and 
oversee all their internet assets. Expanse's unique approach to inform 
businesses in real time what they own, what's at risk, and how to protect their 
most critical assets—is the reason the company is tripling sales 
year-over-year."

The company plans to apply the funds to accelerate its business' go-to-market 
strategy, including international expansion beyond its existing overseas 
customers in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Japan.

About Expanse
Expanse helps IT operations and security teams discover, manage, and secure all 
of their global internet assets. Current Expanse customers comprise more than 
10 percent of the routable internet and they use the company's platform to 
monitor for real-time changes to their infrastructure. Using leading-edge 
collection and analysis technology, Expanse improves organizations' visibility, 
governance, and IT operations, reducing risk associated with internet-connected 
assets and enabling a secure digital transformation. Founded in 2012, Expanse 
is headquartered in San Francisco and is now backed by more than $135M in 
funding.

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Source - Expanse

CONTACT: Patricia Tantow, Expanse, PR@Expanseinc.com