Draft:WiJungle

WiJungle is an enterprise cybersecurity product company, headquartered in Gurugram, India. It provides a unified cybersecurity platform for private and government sector organizations. The company operates in more than 25 countries.

History
In 2014, co-founders Karmesh Gupta and Praveen Gupta established HttpCart Technologies and launched WiJungle as a free Wi-Fi service in April 2015. However, by November 2015, the service was shut down as the company ran into losses due to high operational costs. The company then switched to providing Wi-Fi management software to the hospitality sector, but the product was unsuccessful as data prices saw a decline due to the launch of Jio. In 2017, the company reintroduced WiJungle as a unified network security product for enterprise clients. In April 2022, the company raised seed funding at a valuation of $22 million from American venture capital firm SOSV.

Product
WiJungle offers hardware and cloud products for enterprise clients covering network firewall, router, link load balancer, SD-WAN, WAF, NGFW and DNS security among others. The platform runs on a proprietary operating system, WiJungle OS, which is based on the Linux kernel.

Awards and Recognition
In 2021, American technological research and consulting firm Gartner recognized WiJungle as the highest-rated vendor globally, in its Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': Network Firewall Report 2021. In August 2022, the product received ICSA Labs certification. . WiJungle has been recognized for its startup ethos from the state of Rajasthan that includes peers like CarDekho, Aayu, and DealShare.