Czech Safetica announces a $4 million investment and aims to expand to the East Coast of the US. Czech Entrepreneur Ondrej Tomek has led the investment round, accompanied by Jakub Mahdal, founder and former CEO of Safetica, and smaller investors Ondrej Smolar and Michael Poplar-Rostock, Startup Kitchen reports.
About Safetica
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Founded in 2007 by Jakub Mahdal, Brno-based Safetica is a third-party software company that provides an IT security solution for Data Loss Prevention and is complementary to ESET security solutions.
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Safetica software prevents data loss, monitoring of all hard drives, USB drives, network file transfers, emails and printers as well as application file access
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Its solution provides reporting and blocks activities related to file operations, websites, emails, instant messaging, application usage, and keyword searches.
Investment details
Czech entrepreneur Ondrej Tomek, co-founder and CEO at Impulse Ventures, led the investment round. It was also joined by Jakub Mahdal, founder and former CEO of Safetica, and smaller investors Ondrej Smolář and Michael Poplar-Rostok.
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Fresh funds are intended to strengthen the company’s customer support and sales and marketing team in the United States and Canada, which develops software for protecting corporate data from loss.
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Safetica has moved its headquarters and entity to the US with a new investment. The engineering base will remain in the Czech Republic.
