- Sourcefire
Sourcefire, Inc is a
software company , supporting the development of thefree software Snort andClamAV projects.The acquisition of ClamAV by Sourcefire was made on August 17th, 2007.
Company
Sourcefire was founded in 2001 by Martin Roesch, the creator of SNORT, the
open source technology for intrusion detection and prevention.The company's initial growth was funded through four separate rounds of financing raising a total of $56.5 million from venture investors such as Sierra Ventures,
New Enterprise Associates ,Sequoia Capital ,Core Capital Partners , Inflection Point Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners and Cross Creek Capital, L.P., a venture fund whose general partner is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wasatch Advisors, Inc. [cite web|url=http://www.sourcefire.com/company/|title=Sourcefire Website|accessdate=2007-11-13]In March 2007, Sourcefire completed an initial public offering raising $86.3 million. The sole book-running manager of the offering was
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated.Lehman Brothers Inc. acted as co-lead manager andUBS Securities LLC andJefferies & Company , Inc. served as co-managers.Notes
External links
* [http://www.sourcefire.com/ Sourcefire homepage]
* [http://www.clamav.net/support/sf-faq FAQ about the ClamAV acquisition]
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