Emerging and High Growth Companies

Google Ventures in its US$15 million investment in CmdWatch Security

Google Ventures
Key Contact
Chad Bayne

Partner, Emerging and High Growth Companies, Toronto

Team
Justin D. Young

Partner, Emerging and High Growth Companies, Vancouver

Jacques Du Plessis

Partner, Emerging and High Growth Companies, Vancouver

Colena Der

Partner, Tax, Calgary

On February 26, 2019, CmdWatch Security, Inc. (Cmd) announced the completion of its US$15 million Series B financing round, led by Google Ventures (GV). The transaction included participation from Amplify Partners, returning investor Expa Labs, and additional strategic investors. Cmd will use the proceeds to grow its product and engineering teams as it continues to develop new defensive capabilities for its core platform.

GV operates as an venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc. specializing in growth capital, start-ups, early, seed, growth stage, mid stage, and late stage investments.  

Cmd, based out of Vancouver, develops security platforms that provide control and visibility into production workloads in the Cloud and on premise to organizations.  

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP represented GV with a team led by Chad Bayne that included Justin Young, Jacques Du Plessis, Shannon Davidson (Emerging and High Growth Companies) and Colena Der (Tax).

Value
US$15 milllion
Date Closed
February 26, 2019
Lead Office
Toronto
Key Contact
Chad Bayne

Partner, Emerging and High Growth Companies, Toronto

Team
Justin D. Young

Partner, Emerging and High Growth Companies, Vancouver

Jacques Du Plessis

Partner, Emerging and High Growth Companies, Vancouver

Colena Der

Partner, Tax, Calgary