Draft:Twingate

Twingate is an information security company that develops a network access security solution for organizations, based on the zero trust security model. Its solution commonly replaces business VPNs.

History
Twingate was founded in 2019 by Tony Huie, Alex Marshall and Lior Rozner and is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has teams distributed around the world.

In October 2020, it was announced that the company raised $17 million in a Series A financing from 8VC, Green Bay Ventures, SignalFire, WndrCo and Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.

Technology
The company’s product facilitates least privilege remote access by end users to an organization’s private network resources, whether they are located on-premises or in the cloud. The company’s product is delivered under the software as a service model and is described as an “Identity-First Networking” product that ties access to user and device identities, rather than IP addresses associated with traditional network access security technologies.

Twingate holds over 18 patents for its technology.