dope.security is an American

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company founded in 2021. Based in Mountain View and

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, the company focuses on secure web gateways.

History

dope.security was founded by former

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and Symantec software engineer Kunal Agarwal on May 4, 2021. Following the shift of many companies to

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following the

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, Agarwal founded dope.security to adapt secure web gateways to a growing market of workers accessing company servers through

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or home Internet rather than centralized office networks. Speaking with

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, Agarwal recalled that during his engineering career, he encountered customers who complained about outages and other performance issues from existing secure web gateways that relied on data centers. In September 2022, Boldstart Ventures provided the initial $4 million seed investment for dope.security, which began operations with 30 employees. With its headquarters in Mountain View,

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, dope.security also has operations in

, Ireland.

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, Boldstart Ventures, and Preface helped raise an additional $16 million to fund internal, endpoint-based secure web gateway technology development for dope.security in March 2023.

Products

The main dope.security product is the Fly Direct Secure Web Gateway (dope.swg), which is based at a

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rather than stopover data centers. The

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of dope.swg is compatible with

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and

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