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Media Release: PGP Announces Venture Funding
PGP CORPORATION RECEIVES $14 MILLION INITIAL FUNDING FROM
Palo Alto, CA/19 August, 2002 – PGP Corporation announced today that it has received $14 million in venture funding from DCM-Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two leading venture capital firms. The funds will be used to establish and operate PGP Corporation as a new, independent company providing secure messaging and data storage products to corporations and individuals. As stated in a separate press release today, PGP Corporation has purchased the technology assets from Network Associates, additionally announcing that the company will upgrade existing product lines, develop new technology, and retain reserves sufficient to reach operating profitability. PGP Corporation was created with a management team comprised of technology industry veterans from Vantive, PeopleSoft, Symantec, and Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders. PGP secure-messaging and data-storage products (PGP Mail, PGP File, PGP Disk, PGP Wireless, PGP Admin and PGP Keyserver), in use by thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and corporate information remains secure. "PGP products are well known and highly respected by security experts in leading corporations around the world," said Phil Dunkelberger, President and CEO of PGP Corporation. "This level of funding is a tremendous vote of confidence from two of the premier venture capital firms that we can, through technical innovation, expand PGP into a product that is a corporate requirement for every desktop and wireless device." "The feedback we have received from corporate and government customers has provided us with the insights that a comprehensive next generation security product was needed to meet the growing demand for an easy-to-use encryption product that can be used by many people," said Rob Theis, DCM General Partner. "We began working on this project when Phil Dunkelberger joined our Entrepreneur-in-Residence program and are delighted that it has resulted in the creation of a company with the long range objective of offering a complete family of well-integrated products, providing the foundation for the next generation in security encryption with proven products and an established brand." "PGP Corporation has outstanding market potential," said Terry Garnett, General Partner of Venrock Associates. "The entire security category is growing rapidly and customers have a great need for products that protect confidential information. Keeping data secure is a universal enterprise requirement."
About PGP Corporation
Over the last ten years, PGP® technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP technology has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cryptography experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866 747 5483 (866 PGP LIVE).
About DCM-Doll Capital Management
About Venrock Associates
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