Brightmail
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Brightmail is an e-mail filtering
company in the United States
. It was acquired by Symantec
on May 19, 2004 for $370 million in cash. The company was founded in 1998 and raised $55M in three rounds of venture capital led by Accel, TCV, and Symantec. The CEO at the time of acquisition was Enrique Salem, who is now CEO of Symantec, Inc.
E-mail filtering
Email filtering is the processing of email to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to anti-spam techniques, and to outgoing emails as well...
company in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It was acquired by Symantec
Symantec
Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
on May 19, 2004 for $370 million in cash. The company was founded in 1998 and raised $55M in three rounds of venture capital led by Accel, TCV, and Symantec. The CEO at the time of acquisition was Enrique Salem, who is now CEO of Symantec, Inc.