AnchorFree
Company

Last deal

$295M

Amount

Private Equity

Stage

05.09.2018

Date

3

all rounds

$357.8M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
AnchorFree provides Hotspot Shield, the world's most popular app for safe browsing.

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founded date

28.11.2005

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Private Equity

IPO status

Private

Description

AnchorFree is a privately held, venture-backed company based in Mountain View, California, with a mission to provide secure and private access to the world's information for every person on the planet. Hotspot Shield, available on PC, Mac, Apple iOS, and Android platforms, secures all Internet communications, protects the user's identity online, and provides universal access to all Internet content. The app has over 650 million downloads in 200 countries, and AnchorFree has been named among America's Most Promising Companies by Forbes in 2013 and 2014. In 2019, Fast Company named AnchorFree the "Most Innovative Security Company" in the world. With investment from WndrCo, AnchorFree is focused on bringing online privacy and freedom to the next billion internet users.
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Peter Hoag
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David Gorodyansky
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Founder of AnchorFree Inc, David has been profiled among America's Most Promising CEO's by Forbes, selected by Inc magazine among the top 30 CEO's Under 30 years old, profiled by Fortune, nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs. David built AnchorFree into a global leader in consumer privacy, security, and Internet Freedom with more than 650 million users downloading AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield app globally. AnchorFree has played a role in some of the world's most important events protecting millions of people from security and privacy breaches and disrupting censorship. AnchorFree has been selected by Forbes among America's Most Promising Companies and among the Most Important Security Start-ups by Business Insider. In 2019, Fast Company named AnchorFree the 13th most innovative company in the world and the #1 most innovative security company. David raised $358 million in four financing rounds for AnchorFree from investors including WNDRCO, Accel, 8VC, SignalFire, Goldman Sachs and other bluechip investors. David is an active investor passionate about start-ups with a social mission focused on solving real world billion person problems. David is an investor and Board member @ www.GlobeIn.com (a marketplace connecting artisans from remote regions to global markets), an investor in Modern Meadow (a Company focused on engineering cultured leather and meat from stem cells to solve global food challenges), an investor in Pager (enabling doctor house visits - uber for doctors), an investor in ZecOps (enabling enterprise security), and an investor in #ChicagoGirl documentary which won the Amnesty International Award and awards at the Amsterdam & Berlin film festivals (the movie is about a 19 year old Syrian girl from Chicago using technology to play a role in the Syrian revolution). In 2012 David met with the US Supreme Court Justices as part of being selected for an award with the Academy of Achievement and later with three former US Secretaries of State: Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Henry Kissinger.

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AnchorFree

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David Gorodyansky

Eugene Malobrodsky
Eugene Malobrodsky

Eugene Malobrodsky

Eugene runs AnchorFree’s global data center operations and works on new product innovations. Scaling AnchorFree’s infrastructure across continents, Eugene is passionate about enabling AnchorFree’s services to be available to every user on the planet. Eugene co-founded AnchorFree with a passion for Internet privacy and freedom. Eugene and David have been friends since they were 13 years old and at 21 co-founded their first company, Intelligent Buying Inc, together. Eugene has been an engineer since he was 15 years old. Eugene’s prior experience includes technical roles at SimilTrans, WebEver, and Data Management Systems. Eugene brings to AnchorFree years of experience in data networking, infrastructure scalability and a great passion for start-ups. Prior to starting AnchorFree, Eugene was a student at the University of San Francisco

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Employee Profiles
94

Yulia Novak

Project manager

Kicho Yu

Core data analyst

Alok Pandey

Vice president of finance and corporate development

Nina Maksyutenko

Project manager

Natasha Pearce

Director of social media

Oleksandra Chernykova

Software qa engineer

Tae Kang

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David Yi

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