Zimperium, Inc. is a privately owned

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company based in the United States and headquartered in

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, Texas. Zimperium provides a mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise environments.

History

Zimperium, Ltd. was founded in 2010 by its

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and CTO Itzhak Avraham. In 2011, Elia Yehuda, joined as a co-founder. In 2013, the assets of Zimperium, Ltd. were acquired by Zimperium, Inc., and the new company was incorporated in Delaware. In 2014, Zimperium, Inc. released zIPS Android app (Intrusion Prevention System), a smartphone software that uses

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to monitor user habits to detect and prevent possible

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. In 2015, Zimperium, Inc. researched and developed security systems against a group of software bugs that affect a series of Android operating systems called Stagefright (bug). In 2016, the company partnered with

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. The partnership consisted in integration of zIPS by Zimperium for enhancing

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and Android platforms. Zimperium, Inc. has raised over $60M from private investors including

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, SoftBank and

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. The company has partnered with several technology companies including

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, In July 2021, Zimperium broadened its portfolio of mobile application protection solutions by acquiring whiteCryption, a leading provider of advanced application shielding and cryptographic key protection. Zimperium acquired whiteCryption from an investment group led by Intertrust, the pioneer in trusted computing and digital rights management (DRM) technology. In March 2022, Zimperium was acquired for approximately $525 million by Liberty Strategic Capital, a private equity firm founded and led by former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

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. With this investment, Liberty Strategic Capital acquired a controlling interest in Zimperium and Secretary Mnuchin chaired the company's board of directors. SoftBank Corp., which has been an investor in Zimperium since 2017, continued as a minority investor.

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