Metapacket
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Metapacket was a San Francisco cybersecurity startup founded in March 2014 by Nir Krakowski (CEO) and Itamar Gilad (CTO), both former technical leaders at Microsoft with backgrounds at Israel's Shin Bet security agency. It built the 'first selective web gateway' - a proxy platform that detected malware by analyzing outbound network traffic and determining whether it was generated by a human, using a patent-pending technique to block malicious outbound communications generically, without relying on prior knowledge or threat-intelligence feeds, so it could catch zero-day threats. The company entered Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch and raised $120,000. Y Combinator lists the company as inactive, and the YC company database marks it as dead. No dated shutdown announcement was found.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Nir Krakowski and Itamar Gilad founded Metapacket in San Francisco as a malware-detection proxy platform.
- YC batch
The company entered Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch, raising $120,000.
- Status
Y Combinator lists the company as inactive and the YC database marks it dead; no dated shutdown announcement was found.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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