Type | Private |
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Industry | Security software, security appliances, Internet security, network security |
Founded | 2003 |
Headquarters | Sunnyvale, CA |
Key people | CEO: Bob Walters Founder: John Irwin Founder: Dirk Morris |
Products | Web content filtering, anti-spam, antivirus, anti-phishing, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, firewall, OpenVPN, bandwidth management, web cache |
Employees | 17 |
Website | untangle.com |
Untangle is a privately held company based in Sunnyvale, California. The company provides an open source network gateway for small businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations. Untangle provides multiple gateway applications installed at the edge of a network.
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Untangle was founded in 2003 as Metavize, Inc. by John Irwin and Dirk Morris.[1] In 2006, Metavize raised a $10.5M series-A venture funding round from CMEA Ventures and Rustic Canyon Partners, named Bob Walters as CEO, and renamed to Untangle, Inc.[2] In 2007, Untangle released the Untangle Gateway Platform as open source under the GPLv2 license.[3]
In October 2009, Untangle released Untangle 7.0 which included improvements to its reporting capabilities.[4] In December 2009, Untangle released Untangle 7.1 which included improvements to its web filtering and policy management applications.[5] In March 2010, Untangle released Untangle 7.2 which included its Captive Portal application.[6]
Untangle released a free bookmark utility called SaveFace in May 2010, in response to continued loosening of default privacy settings in Facebook user accounts.[7][8] In June 2010 Untangle released Untangle 7.3, enabling the company's software to be used by OEM hardware manufacturers to produce their own branded multi-function firewalls and UTM appliances.[9] In August 2010 Untangle released Untangle 7.4, wherein it simplified its packages to Lite, Standard and Premium.[10]
In November 2010 Untangle released Untangle 8.0, which included Bandwidth Control.[11] In February 2011 Untangle released Untangle 8.1, which included Web Cache.[12]
In August 2008, Untangle was named a winner in InfoWorld鈥檚 Best of Open Source Software awards.[13]
Untangle provides software in three different packages: Lite, Standard and Premium.
Untangle offers its Lite Package for free, whilst selling its Standard Package or Premium Package on subscription.[14] Each comprises a collection of Untangle network software applications.
Untangle applications include anti-spam, content filtering, antivirus, anti-phishing, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, firewall, OpenVPN, router, and web cache software on the Untangle Gateway Platform.[15]
The company also offers a range of hardware, or appliances, with Untangle Gateway Platform pre-installed.
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