About
Founded in 1996, Blue Coat is now an industry leader in the field of advanced enterprise security. Originally founded as CacheFlow, the company changed its name to Blue Coat in 2002 to reflect its new emphasis on enterprise security, invoking the image of a baseball umpire’s uniform. In March 2015, Blue Coat was acquired by private equity firm Bain Capital. Blue Coat provides advanced enterprise security for 15,000 organizations across the globe, numbering 88 of the 100 largest global companies among them. The Blue Coat Security Platform provides an integrated platform that addresses companies’ network, security, and cloud requirements. This allows customers a minimal impact on network performance while still providing top-quality protection against advanced threats and improving performance for cloud applications and services. Blue Coat focuses strongly on growth and innovation, with 200 patents issued and pending. Blue Coat also maintains several Research and Development centers ac
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 19,518 investors in VCSift focus on the saas sector.
- • 175 investors are based in Sunnyvale, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Sectors
- saas
- Location
- Sunnyvale, US
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