Barracuda, email anti-spam company, buys firewall company NetContinuum

September 18, 2007 | Matt Marshall

Barracuda Networks Inc., a Campbell, Calif. maker of email and Internet anti-spam appliances, said it has acquired NetContinuum, a provider of Web application firewalls, for an undisclosed amount.

Here’s the announcement.

Over six years, NetContinuum had raised about $80 million. It was restarted in 2005, with an infusion of capital from from Adams Street Partners, Entrepia Ventures, Invus Group, Menlo Ventures and Palomar Ventures. Other investors include MKS Ventures, NIF Ventures and Siemens Venture Capital.

Barracuda Networks is backed with $40 million from Sequoia Capital and Francisco Partners.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.