DigiCert of Lehi has acquired Boulder, Colorado-based Valimail, a provider of zero-trust email authentication delivered as a service.
With more than 92,000 clients worldwide — up 70 percent the past year — Valimail’s platform protects organizations from phishing, spoofing and domain-based threats.
DigiCert is backed by Clearlake Capital Group LP, Crosspoint Capital Partners LP and TA Associates Management LP. The company provides digital trust services by issuing digital certificates that authenticate identities, encrypt data and secure online interactions for websites, IoT devices, software and documents.
The acquisition advances DigiCert’s strategy of delivering end-to-end digital trust, a DigiCert release said. “Valimail adds leadership in zero trust email authentication to the DigiCert ONE platform that already brings together public CA, private PKI, certificate lifecycle management and DNS to give customers a unified view of digital trust,” the statement reads.
“Our strategy has always been to expand our platform’s capabilities with technologies that solve emerging threats for customers, and we believe that email authentication is the next logical step for DigiCert ONE,” said Amit Sinha, DigiCert CEO. “This strategy has guided our evolution from the world’s largest certificate authority company into a digital trust
platform leader.”
“Our mission has always been to authenticate the world’s communications, starting with email,” said Valimail CEO Alex Garcia-Tobar. “Teaming up with DigiCert helps accelerate our joint mission globally, aligning with the company’s broader trust ecosystem and ensuring that organizations are secure not only in their email, but across all their digital interactions. As a growth company, we’re excited to work closely with Amit and his leadership team to capture a larger share of the $4 billion-plus market opportunity ahead of us.”
Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.