Controversial Goodmail Raises Another $20 Million

past coverage on Goodmail to get more info on that.

Today, however, Goodmail has announced that it has raised $20 million in venture financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. "Inboxes today are so riddled with phish, spoofs, spam and viruses, that before Goodmail, you needed rubber gloves to open your email," said David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners. "At nearly a billion weekly transactions, we didn't have to be geniuses to figure out that CertifiedEmail--secured by sender audit procedures and public key cryptography--is emerging as the industry standard for restoring trust to email."

The economy has not made it easy for companies to raise venture capital, but Goodmail apparently didn't have this problem at all. Tomio Geron at the Wall Street Journal
Yahoo is one of Goodmail's customers, but Google and Microsoft are both absent from

Suggest a Correction

Found an error or have a suggestion? Let us know and we'll review it.

Your Name *

Your Email *

Correction Details *

Submit Correction