Blackwall raises $100M at $2.2B by letting hosting providers keep customers
Blackwall co-founder Nikita Rozenberg is betting that hosts and managed-service providers can sell bot controls to millions of smaller sites that security giants reach differently.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: TechCrunch
Why it matters
Blackwall's $2.2 billion financing valuation puts a price on a channel-first security model: selling bot and AI traffic controls through hosts that already serve millions of smaller websites. The round backs the strategy, while current operating results will determine how much of that price the business can support.
Blackwall raised $100 million in a Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation on October 20th, extending co-founder and CEO Nikita Rozenberg's bet that web hosts can sell security to sites too small to build it themselves. The round was led by AVP, with existing investors Dawn Capital, MMC Ventures and Tera Ventures participating, according to [TechCrunch's…
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