BlackSpider Technologies Limited was a British software company founded in 2002 and subsequently acquired by SurfControl in July 2006.
The Company provided Cloud Computing services for filtering email spam and other malware.
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BlackSpider was a startup company founded in 2002 by John Cheney[1]. in Reading, Berkshire, UK.
In January 2004 Casenove Private Equity invested £4.6m ($6.6m) in the business,[2], allowing the organisation to grow into the French and Germany Markets.
In July 2006, SurfControl a UK listed PLC acquired BlackSpider for £19.5m in cash[3].
At the point of acquition BlackSpider had £4m in revenues and an operating loss of £3.1m and over 1,200 customers[4].
In October 2007 Websense acquired Surfcontrol for appromixately £204m[5].
Following the acquisition of SurfControl by Websense - the original BlackSpider Management Team including John Cheney left to found Workbooks.com a provider of Web Based CRM software for small businesses.[6].
MailControl was the brand name for BlackSpider Technologies email filtering services. These products are now sold by Websense under the brand name Hosted Email Security[7].