6/20/2023 0 Comments Sookasa acquired $ millions![]() How is your service different from what already exists? You want to allow professionals in regulated industries, like health care, finance and legal, to use their favorite cloud services in a secure way. Asaf Cidon, a PhD candidate at Stanford, spent a year working in R&D at Google after spending three years in the intelligence section of the Israel Defense Forces.Īsaf Cidon talked with StrictlyVC the other day about the company and what it’s like to work with his dad. Israel Cidon was long a professor at Technion in Israel he also founded four prior companies, including Actona Technologies, acquired in 2004 by Cisco. ![]() In addition to cofounders Madan Gopal and Chandra Shetty - both senior engineers from Cisco, formerly - Sookasa’s founders are a father and son who serve as CTO and CEO, respectively. Yet Sookasa is interesting for another reason. Sookasa, a cloud-based offering, says it make the process of encryption so easy that even a sole practitioner can get up and running as easily as he or she can sign up for Dropbox itself. As services like Dropbox and Box become increasingly ubiquitous and more employees use them to share files with each other and people outside their companies, businesses in particular need a better way to manage and protect that data. No doubt Accel was attracted to the startup’s technology, which promises to dramatically simplify the protection of sensitive files across popular cloud applications and mobile devices. They got distracted by fixing that problem, Asaf told Business Insider.Sookasa, a 2.5-year-old, 12-person startup in San Mateo, Ca., is taking the wraps off its business today, as well as unveiling $5 million in Series A funding led by Accel Partners, which it closed on last August. While passing files back and forth on such projects, they realized they weren't happy with how secure their files were. They were building one that will turn your air conditioner on a half-hour before you get home. Son Asaf was earning his doctorate at Stanford, and both father and son like to geek out together and build apps. He previously co-founded Actona, (acquired by Cisco) Viola (acquired by Fluke Networks) and Micronet (public, MCRNL). Dad Israel was formerly an electrical engineering professor at Technion University in Israel, which is like the Stanford University there. Sookasa raised $5 million from Accel Partners, backed by Sameer Gandhi (investor of Dropbox, and security company Sourcefire).Įqually interesting is how this father/son duo decided to go into business together. Ditto for helping lawyers comply with their industry's security regulations while using popular cloud storage. Its claim to fame is that it adds HIPPA security to files, so doctors can use Dropbox, Gmail, etc., while complying with health care laws. But if you ask him if that means his dad has to follow his orders, Asaf only laughs.Īnd, instead of making duck calls for hunters, Asaf and his dad, Israel Cidon (who is CTO), offer a cloud service that secures files stored in popular cloud storage apps. Asaf is the son and the CEO of Sookasa, which technically makes him his dad's boss. ![]() He's pointing out the obvious visual differences between the Cidon family's scalp and chin regions and that of the Robertsons, the famed bushy-bearded family that stars in A&E's hit reality series. "It's like 'Duck Dynasty.' Only without hair," jokes Asaf Cidon, co-founder and CEO of a file-sharing startup called Sookasa that came out of stealth this week. What's does it feel like to do a startup with your dad? Asaf Cidon (left) and Israel Cidon, co-founders, Sookasa
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