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Blumira

Blumira is a cybersecurity company that provides detection and response for small and medium-sized businesses. Its software monitors both on-premises and cloud environments from cybercrime, ransomware, and malicious software attacks.

History

Founded in 2018 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Blumira focused on delivering cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) to teams with limited security expertise. Matthew Warner and Steve Fuller are the co-founders of Blumira.

In 2020, Blumira announced that it had raised $2.6 million in funding, led by Chicago-based M25, an early-stage, Midwest-focused VC firm.

In 2021 Blumira raised $10.3 million for its Series A funding round, led by Mercury Fund, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, M25, Array Ventures, and Duo Security co-founder and angel investor Jon Oberheide.

In 2022, Blumira named Jim Simpson, a former Duo Security product management leader, as CEO.

In 2022, Blumira also achieved service organization control (SOC) 2 Type 2 compliance, which specifies how organizations should manage customer data.

Also in 2022, Blumira announced that it had maintained a 100% customer satisfaction (CSAT) score in Q2.

In 2023, Blumira announced a Series B funding round of $15 million, led by Ten Eleven Ventures and joined by HPA, Mercury Fund, RPS Ventures, and Jon Oberheide.

Products

Upon launching in 2018, Blumira offered a cloud-based SIEM for small and midsize businesses.

In 2022, Blumira released a free cloud-based SIEM to provide Microsoft 365 security monitoring for unlimited users and data, and then launched features specifically for managed service providers (MSPs), including an MSP portal and an educational MSP marketing portal.

In 2023, Blumira expanded its free offering to include up to three cloud integrations, including Microsoft 365, Duo Security, SentinelOne, Webroot, Umbrella, and Mimecast. Blumira also released Blumira Agent, easy-to-use endpoint security to detect and respond to Windows threats, and launched its open extended detection and response (XDR) platform, which combines SIEM, endpoint visibility and automated response.

Research

In 2021, Blumira’s security team, led by CTO Matthew Warner, discovered the potential for an alternative attack vector in the Log4j vulnerability, which relies on a Javascript WebSocket connection to trigger the RCE on internal and locally exposed unpatched Log4j applications.

Awards

Blumira was awarded Globee Cybersecurity Global Excellence Awards: Startup of the year and Chief Technology Officer of the year for Matthew Warner in 2022.

In 2022, CRN named Blumira as one of the 15 Hottest Technology Products for SMBs.