siliconindia | | February 201319presence felt in all major regions of the world. After gaining a strong hold in the U.S. and Canada, which were early adopters of the Cloud, CipherCloud has also secured customers in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand, UK . Already a known name in Australia, CipherCloud aided a top Australian Bank to migrate sensitive personally identifiable information such as addresses, passport numbers, and credit card numbers to their cloud applications. The company recently opened its European headquarters branch in London to help drive expected growth in Europe to reach 20 percent of their annual turnover in 2013. As European organizations increasingly adopt the cloud, CipherCloud is helping them to ensure their sensitive information is fully protected and all government guidelines from the European Union Data Protection Reform and UK Information Commissioners Office are complied with.Not limiting itself only to leading companies in banking, insurance, healthcare, high tech, and the public sector, CipherCloud has a rapidly growing customer base. "We see very strong interest for our offerings among large and medium enterprise companies alike," explains Kothari. Road to Success and ExpansionCipherCloud's distinctive technology, in just over two years, since its founding the company has rapidly grown its customer base to protecting more than 1.2 million cloud application users, more than 100 million customer records, across 40 enterprise customers, 10 industries, eight countries, and six languages. The company has 150 employees, a strong market traction, marquee customers, a seasoned management team and stellar investors to continue to expand its market presence and industry leadership. The company is in the Cloud Information Protection segment, which has emerged as a must have requirement for organizations using the cloud. Kothari's hard work and discerning approach to information protection has charted the company's growth graph. Kothari has his eyes on the horizon and sees continuous expansion in terms of product offerings and innovation. "We see the need for CipherCloud across all verticals because every company wants to retain control over their sensitive information in the cloud. We support a number of commercially available cloud applications with different verticals and demographics," adds Kothari. Today startups are in a mad rush to secure funding but not every company tastes the kind of success that this young company has seen. Amazed by CipherCloud's impressive numbers, Andreessen Horowitz recently invested $30 million in the company, and they were clamoring to invest even more. Kothari aims to accelerate the CipherCloud go-to-market strategy by growing their sales and marketing teams in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, as well as rapidly expanding their portfolio of solutions to support more cloud applications.2012 witnessed a boost in the encryption sector by a number of new start-ups but Kothari is absolutely unfazed when it comes to competitors in the segment since CipherCloud is already the clear leader with unique and differentiating technology that is seamless to the user, preserves all the functionality of the cloud application and enables the organization to retain and manage the keys. Their biggest challenge is the lack of awareness in the market about the risk that organizations are exposed to when moving their sensitive data to the cloud. If numbers are anything to go by Kothari is a maverick for sure, similarly if media reports are to be believed then he is a genius too. This entrepreneur par excellence belonged to a small town which formed a small dot on the mammoth world map but his creations in the security space have given him a prominent rung on the cluttered tech space. CipherCloud as a company is growing from strength to strength and Kothari has surely developed trust in the Cloud. CipherCloud has grown its customer base to protecting more than 1.2 million cloud application users, across 40 enterprisecustomers, 10 industries, 8 countries and 6 languages
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