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FireHost, a company that specializes in secured cloud hosting, has raised $10 million in Series B funding in a round led by family-owned private equity firm The Stephens Group, with earlier backers also participating.

The additional capital will be used to scale the company and enter the European market (starting with the UK).

FireHost, which is based in Dallas, Texas, is a managed hosting provider for websites and applications with critical data protection and performance needs (think ecommerce sites and healthcare IT services).

Customers including Hewlett Packard, Johns Hopkins University, Johnson & Johnson, Duke University, LogLogic, HomeAway and Sotheby’s.

FireHost is also the company that reached out to offer virtual refuge to well-known hacker turned security consultant Kevin Mitnick, after the man proved such a high-profile hacker’s target himself that his former Web hosting partner told him wouldn’t host Web pages for him anymore.


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  • FIREHOST
Company:
FireHost
Website:
firehost.com
Launch Date:
September 16, 2011
Funding:
$12M

FireHost is a Dallas, TX based secure cloud hosting company that delivers secure web hosting solutions to Ecommerce, SaaS, healthcare IT and security companies around the world. Specializing in protecting websites with compliance and high traffic needs, FireHost makes hacker awareness, management and prevention a standard part of every hosting plan. Advanced security combined with a comprehensive portfolio of hosting solutions helps FireHost protect companies of all sizes from threats to their websites, Web applications, and other valuable data.

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