BastionZero
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
BastionZero was a Boston-based cybersecurity startup founded in 2019 by CEO Sharon Goldberg and CTO Ethan Heilman. Its Zero Trust infrastructure access platform gave developers and DevOps teams passwordless, fine-grained access to servers, Kubernetes clusters and databases - a VPN-replacement approach using a multi-root trustless protocol that granted only the right access at the right time. The company raised a $6 million seed round in 2022 led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Akamai and DG Daiwa Ventures. In May 2024 it was acquired by Cloudflare for an undisclosed sum and integrated into the Cloudflare One secure access service edge (SASE) platform.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded in Boston
Sharon Goldberg and Ethan Heilman founded BastionZero in Boston to build passwordless Zero Trust access to IT infrastructure.
- Seed round
BastionZero raised a $6 million seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital, with Akamai and DG Daiwa Ventures participating.
- Acquired by Cloudflare
On May 30, 2024 Cloudflare announced the acquisition of BastionZero for an undisclosed sum, adding its Zero Trust infrastructure access controls to the Cloudflare One SASE platform.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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