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Anchore Continues Remarkable Growth and Business MomentumSANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Anchore, Inc., the leading experts in continuous security and compliance for containers, today announced strong growth and continued business momentum heading into 2021. Anchore began the 2020 calendar year by raising $20 million in Series A funding. Following that, Anchore experienced 500% revenue growth year-over-year and quadrupled its number of employees. The company has also fielded remarkable customer growth, supported federal security innovation, launched a partner program, and issued several new product advancements. "As we pause to reflect on 2020, it was a year of sustained growth for Anchore," said Saïd Ziouani, CEO of Anchore. "Digital transformation is accelerating the adoption of container security, and as we welcome new customers to the Anchore family, we've scaled our business to deliver on product innovation and capitalize on the market opportunity." Customer Growth Federal Innovation Anchore Federal helps government agencies certify their containers to the NIST 800-190 certification. Achieving a NIST 800-190 certification is a government-wide security standard that containerized applications must comply with before they go live in production. In addition, Anchore Federal's end-to-end security and compliance help achieve FedRAMP guidelines, the United States government standard for security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. Anchore also won an AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract with the U.S. Air Force to advance capabilities by enabling innovators to simplify technology transfer and accelerate results. Partner Ecosystem The program brings Anchore and partners together to help companies and government agencies build DevSecOps toolchains and processes to meet business and mission objectives. Existing partners include GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian, CloudBees, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Carahsoft. Technology Advancements For more information about Anchore or to view current job openings, go to www.Anchore.com. About Anchore Media Contact: View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anchore-continues-remarkable-growth-and-business-momentum-301208604.html SOURCE Anchore |