
Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup that protects over 1.5M sites and has processed over 8B total transactions in its 3-year history. The company's advanced risk-evaluation platform improves account management by identifying fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions. It has proven successful at stopping fraudulent user account registrations in real-time — using a blend of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of malicious actors — for hundreds of transactions per second from many of the largest consumer Internet companies.

Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup that protects over 1.5M sites and has processed over 8B total transactions in its 3-year history. The company's advanced risk-evaluation platform improves account management by identifying fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions. It has proven successful at stopping fraudulent user account registrations in real-time — using a blend of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of malicious actors — for hundreds of transactions per second from many of the largest consumer Internet companies.
Founded: 2010
Headquarters: Redwood City, California
Product: SaaS machine-learning risk-evaluation / anti-spam platform
Outcome: Acquired by Google (January 2014)
Reported funding: ~$9M
Online abuse, social spam, fraudulent registrations, account takeovers, malicious user content
2010
Cybersecurity
$1M
Early seed/angel round involving investors such as Accel Partners, AOL Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Greylock Discovery Fund and Morado Ventures.
$8M
“Backed by Accel, Greylock, Charles River Ventures, AOL Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and others”