Aorato
Active Directory security and identity attack detection.
Funding & Investors
$11M
Seed ($1M), Series B ($10M)
Outcome
Acquired by Microsoft in 2014 for ~$200M; became Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) / Defender for Identity
Lesson Learned
AD security became a critical Microsoft product. Lesson: if your product protects a Microsoft asset, Microsoft will buy you.
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