Lookout Mobile Security raises $40M for smartphone security

Lookout Mobile Security has raised $40 million in a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture fund co-led by Silicon Valley uber investor Marc Andreessen.

That’s a nice vote of confidence for San Francisco-based Lookout, which makes security software for smartphones such as Android mobile devices. Now that mobile phones are becoming a dominant computing platform, protecting them from threats is becoming a lot more important.

Lookout protects more than 12 million … Continue Reading