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Peerlyst (also known as Peerlyst inc.) is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Peerlyst is a vendor-independent community of IT professionals and experts. It provides a place to compare security solutions and learn from their peers' real-world experiences. Peerlyst combines social network capabilities with proprietary search technologies to bring all the information that is needed to make decisions which products work best for a specific environment. Peerlyst combines Linkedin-like product pages with user-generated product rating of the key prdouct features that are most important to IT decision makers. Peerlyst offers free membership, features security blogs, product reviews, industry Q&As and advice.

Corporate History
Peerlyst received via a Convertible Note an undisclosed amount on March 7, 2014. The company received seed funding of $3M on Jul 22, 2014. Funding is backed by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Illuminate Ventures.