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Appthority provides the industry’s first all-in-one App Risk Management service that employs dynamic and behavioral analysis to immediately discover the hidden actions of apps and empower organizations to apply custom policies to prevent unwanted app behaviors. Having analyzed more than three million apps for its Global 2000 and government customers, only Appthority combines the largest global database of analyzed public and private apps with advanced policy management tools to automate control over risky app actions and protect corporate data. Appthority delivers visibility and trust to enterprises and their rapidly expanding app ecosystems.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Appthority is venture-backed by U.S. Venture Partners and Venrock and additionally funded by Blue Coat Systems, and Knollwood Investment Advisory.
Nigel Duffy
Founder
Simon Wilkinson
Head of Engineering
Ryan McMahon
Chief of Staff
Four of the companies our team co-founded produced over $1.7 billion of market cap from 2 IPOs and 2 acquisitions.
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