Although the company has been cash flow positive for the entirety of its existence, Kleczynski took the investment at that time to hire and build out a professional management team. The company last raised funding-a $30 million Series A round-from Highland Capital Partners in 2014. The company built a strong following in the consumer market with this “freemium” approach, and in recent years has made huge competitive advances on the enterprise and business markets.Īnthony O’Mara and Marcin Kleczynski of Malwarebytes. Since then the company has gained a remarkable reputation for its proactive anti-malware protection subscriptions and other computer security software while offering its computer virus remediation services for free. Malwarebytes was founded in 2008 by teenager, Marcin Kleczynski (now 26 years old), who was determined to clean malware off his mother’s computer.

The new funding round will support our aggressive expansion through Malwarebytes EMEA headquarters in Cork, where our headcount has been increasingly rapidly over the last six months, due to strong business development in the EU,” said Anthony O’Mara, VP at Malwarebytes EMEA. “This investment is very significant for growth in the enterprise market in Europe. Malwarebytes runs on over 250 million computers around the globe, of which one fifth is in business environments, making the company one of the fastest growing cybersecurity firms in the world. Mutual funds giant, Fidelity, has announced a $50 million investment in cybersecurity firm, Malwarebytes, which is based in San Jose, California with EMEA headquarters in Cork, Ireland.

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