Illumio

Illumio is an American business data center and cloud computing security company.

Illumio

Company type	Cloud computing security
Industry	Data Center and Cloud computing security
Founded	2013
Founders	Andrew Rubin, P.J. Kirner
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California , United States
Products	Illumio Core, Illumio CloudSecure, Illumio Endpoint
Website	www.illumio.com

History

Illumio was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and P. J. Kirner and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.^[1]

The initial $8 million round of venture capital was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Steve Herrod, former CTO of VMware and managing director of General Catalyst led the company’s $34.5 million round with participation by Formation 8, Data Collective, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang.^[2] BlackRock and Accel a $100 million round with participation from a number of investors including private investors John W. Thompson, Jerry Yang and Marc Benioff as well as previous investors.

In February 2020, Stowe Australia, Australia's oldest and largest private electrical contractor, selected Illumio to provide security for its data centers across Australia.^[3]