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eSentire Announces Growth Equity Investment from Warburg Pincus
August 2017 by Marc Jacob
eSentire, Inc. announced that funds affiliated with Warburg Pincus, a global private equity
firm focused on growth investing, have made a significant equity investment into the
Company. The investment will be used to accelerate eSentire’s growth by expanding
its technology services to existing clients and its outreach to more clients in new
markets, as well as to provide liquidity to existing shareholders. Terms of the
transaction were not disclosed.
eSentire is regarded as the pioneer in managed cybersecurity services that detect
and contain advanced threats that have bypassed all other security controls. The
Company began operations serving the demanding financial services market and has
expanded rapidly to support other sectors including insurance, legal, healthcare,
biopharma, engineering, technology, manufacturing and government agencies.
eSentire’s best-in-class MDR solution leverages purpose-built technology, and
highly trained security analysts to detect, investigate and rapidly resolve cyber
threats in customers’ internal and cloud environments before they become
business-impacting events.
Evercore acted as exclusive financial advisor to eSentire. The transaction is
expected to close in September following various approvals.
