Thistle Technologies, a new security company addressing the connected device market, has announced US $2.5 million in seed funding from True Ventures. Thistle was founded by Window Snyder, who formerly served as chief security officer at Square, Mozilla, and Fastly, in addition to chief software security officer at Intel Corporation. She’s held multiple security leadership positions at Apple and Microsoft.
True Ventures has been so supportive of our vision of democratizing product security for devices,” said Window Snyder, founder and CEO of Thistle Technologies in a statement. “We’re making it easier for device makers to deliver on their security requirements. When the update mechanism is resilient and reliable, the business can leverage that beyond security fixes to provide updates for new features with confidence. This can even open up new revenue streams for some customers. Security can be an enabler.”