{"id":655364,"date":"2013-04-30T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T22:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pehub.com\/?p=199254"},"modified":"2013-04-30T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T22:46:53","slug":"workspot-raises-1-9m-from-kleiner-norwest-redpoint-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655364","title":{"rendered":"Workspot Raises $1.9M From Kleiner, Norwest, Redpoint, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Workspot<\/strong> said it raised $1.9 million of seed funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners,<\/strong> Redpoint Ventures<\/strong>, and angel investors, including Peter Wagner <\/strong>and Gaurav Garg<\/strong>. The company also launched a bring-your-own-mobile-device service for IT administrators, Workspot Control, and a mobile application for IPads, called Workspot.<\/p>\n

PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workspot Launches New Bring-Your-Own-Device Solution for IT Departments and End Users; Reveals Founding Team and Announces Seed Funding<\/p>\n

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers backed startup to Present at TechCrunch Disrupt NY<\/p>\n

TechCrunch Disrupt, New York, NY and Menlo Park, CA \u2013 April 30, 2013 – Workspot launched a new bring-your-own-device solution for the mobile workplace.\u00a0 Workspot has created both a SaaS service for IT administrators, Workspot Control, and a mobile application for IPads called Workspot.\u00a0 Workspot also announced that it has raised $1.9 million in seed funding from Kleiner Perkins, Norwest, Redpoint, and angel investors including Peter Wagner and Gaurav Garg.<\/p>\n

Workspot is a single app and secure mobile workplace that helps end-users and IT departments conveniently separate work-related content and personal information stored on the device. End-users can flip between applications inside Workspot with ease, in a single, contained workspace including Intranet, SharePoint, Email, and Microsoft Office documents.\u00a0 Collaboration with co-workers is possible through applications that reside behind their organization\u2019s firewall making full use of SaaS applications.<\/p>\n

Workspot was founded by a trio of experienced San Francisco Bay Area technologists including CEO Amitabh Sinha, formerly of Citrix; CTO Puneet Chawla, formerly of VMWare; and Vice President Ty Wang, formerly of Oracle and Twilio.\u00a0 Its team also includes experienced engineers from companies including Juniper Networks, Dell, F5, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorkspot is a cloud-based, BYOD solution that provides a secure, \u2018no new infrastructure or server software\u2019 implementation for IT Network professionals, and delights their end users who require a seamless, easy-to-use solution,\u201d said Amitabh Sinha, CEO, Workspot.\u00a0 \u201cOur approach stands apart because IT departments can get critical business applications to their end-users typically in less than 30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new app, also called Workspot, underwent pre-launch testing as part of Spiceworks\u2019 SpicePanel program, an initiative that connects start-up and established technology companies with more than 2.4 million IT professionals. Workspot is comprised of Workspot Control, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) interface for BYOD configuration and analytics, and the Workspot mobile application for Apple iPad devices. Workspot intelligently connects to customers\u2019 existing security infrastructure, embracing and extending the authentication schemes IT professionals have already implemented with SSL-VPN appliances. No credentials are stored in the cloud, and all authentication is done directly against existing security appliances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe small-to-midsize business market represents an enormous opportunity for technology brands who can move quickly to address a specific need or pain point, such as BYOD management,\u201d said Jay Hallberg, co-founder and VP of Marketing at Spiceworks. \u201cEarly access to the latest technologies, like Workspot, provides the Spiceworks Community with the opportunity to shape the products and services they purchase to do their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the face of the BYOD explosion, this is a great method of helping users while still meeting compliance.\u201d Scott Chille, IT Director, Mason City Clinic.\u00a0 \u201cMy users are glad to have access to clinic applications and information on their iPads.\u00a0 Before, they were hiking their laptops around with them and wouldn\u2019t bring it into a meeting – now they can multitask.\u201d
\nWorkspot will be competing in TechCrunch Disrupt\u2019s Startup Battlefield in New York City \u00a0Tuesday, April 30, as part of the \u2018Mobile First\u2019 category.<\/p>\n

About Workspot
\nWorkspot is a bring-your-own-device solution for the mobile workplace. It was created by a team of experienced San Francisco, Bay Area technologists with backgrounds from Citrix, Oracle, Juniper Networks, VMware, Symantec, Microsoft, and Cisco.\u00a0 Workspot received a seed round of funding Summer of 2012 from Kleiner Perkins, Norwest, Redpoint, and angel investors.\u00a0 Workspot is now available in the Apple App Store. To learn more, visit www.workspot.com or follow us on Twitter (@workspotinc).<\/p>\n

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Workspot said it raised $1.9 million of seed funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and angel investors, including Peter Wagner and Gaurav Garg. The company also launched a bring-your-own-mobile-device service for IT administrators, Workspot Control, and a mobile application for IPads, called Workspot. PRESS RELEASE Workspot Launches New Bring-Your-Own-Device […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}