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Dan Primack 2013年08月19日

Dan Primack專注于報(bào)道交易和交易撮合者,,從美國金融業(yè)到風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資業(yè)均有涉及。此前,,Dan是湯森路透(Thomson Reuters)的自由編輯,,推出了peHUB.com和peHUB Wire郵件服務(wù)。作為一名新聞工作者,,Dan還曾在美國馬薩諸塞州羅克斯伯里經(jīng)營一份社區(qū)報(bào)紙,。目前他居住在波士頓附近。
IBM最近剛剛宣布,,花近10億美元的巨資收購以色列交易詐騙防范公司Trusteer,,而后者的風(fēng)投資本融資額還不到1000萬美元,。這家籍籍無名的小公司到底有什么過人之處,?

????IBM (IBM)上周宣布同意收購Trusteer,。Trusteer是一家?guī)椭鷻C(jī)構(gòu)防范金融詐騙和高級安全威脅的公司。雖然交易條款未予披露,,但以色列一家媒體稱,收購價(jià)格在8億-10億美元之間,。

????因此,,《財(cái)富》雜志決定對風(fēng)投資本家史蒂夫?克勞茨進(jìn)行簡短采訪,他的公司USVP在5年前曾向Trusteer注資610萬美元,。以下是編輯后的訪談內(nèi)容:

《財(cái)富》:最初你是怎么知道Trusteer公司的,?

克勞茨:USVP在安全領(lǐng)域有著較長的投資史,曾經(jīng)投資過的公司包括Check Point Software (CHPK)和Imperva (IMPV),。其實(shí),,我與斯科羅莫?克萊默(Imperva首席執(zhí)行官兼聯(lián)席創(chuàng)始人)現(xiàn)在還是Imperva的董事——另一位Imperva聯(lián)席創(chuàng)始人是麥琪?布達(dá)艾,他也是Trusteer的聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人,。我跟他們倆都很熟,。此外,在投資以色列企業(yè)方面,,USVP持有非常積極的策略,,但僅限于以色列西海岸的企業(yè)。因此,,斯科羅莫參與了Trusteer的A輪融資,,而USVP參與了B輪融資,而且是投資Trusteer的唯一一家風(fēng)投公司。

那是在2008年夏天,,對嗎,?那個(gè)時(shí)候投資服務(wù)于金融服務(wù)公司的創(chuàng)業(yè)企業(yè)確實(shí)不易……

沒錯(cuò)。我們在2008年8月完成了交易,。接著,,金融危機(jī)在9月份接踵而至。事實(shí)上,,第一次董事會是在10月召開的,。會議期間,我們都在想,,90天過后,,我們是否還能有一家擁有償付能力的客戶。但是我們沒有失去信心,,不僅是因?yàn)槲覀兿嘈盼覀兊膱F(tuán)隊(duì),,而且還因?yàn)椋覀冋J(rèn)為在線銀行業(yè)務(wù)會出現(xiàn)爆炸式的增長,,而公司的原始投資活動大都基于這一信念,。

為什么Trusteer沒有舉行后續(xù)融資?

????他們之所以沒這么做是因?yàn)檫@家公司找到了資質(zhì)良好的大型客戶,。而且Trusteer本身也是一家治理完善的企業(yè),,并沒有刻意去打造大規(guī)模的銷售和營銷。公司的團(tuán)隊(duì)對每一位客戶和他們的需求都了如指掌,。

你覺得它會上市嗎,?

我覺得這家公司有這個(gè)潛力。它的成長速度確實(shí)很快,,但是IBM很好地向Trusteer展示了自己及其自身的優(yōu)勢,,因此IBM勝出了。

你提到“IBM獲勝了”,,這是不是說其中有競爭者存在,?

細(xì)節(jié)我不能多談。

現(xiàn)在距你首次投資Trusteer已經(jīng)過去了5年,。期間讓你感到最為驚訝的是什么,?

錢。當(dāng)我們一開始達(dá)成這筆交易時(shí),,我想當(dāng)然地預(yù)計(jì),,這家公司還是會走安全公司融資的老路子。但我從來沒有想到過,,Trusteer僅憑兩輪融資就發(fā)展到了今天這個(gè)地步,。確實(shí)令人喜出望外,。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))??

????IBM (IBM) this morning announced an agreement to acquire Trusteer, a provider of software that helps protect organizations against financial fraud and advanced security threats. No terms were disclosed, but an Israeli press report puts the price tag at between $800 million and $1 billion.

????So Fortune decided to speak briefly with Steve Krausz, a venture capitalist whose firm USVP led a $6.1 million investment into the company five years ago. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation:

FORTUNE: How did you first hear about Trusteer?

Krausz: USVP has a long history in the security space, with companies like Check Point Software (CHPK) and Imperva (IMPV). In fact, I'm still on the board of Imperva with [company CEO and co-founder] Schlomo Kramer -- and another Imperva co-founder is Mickey Boodaei, who co-founded Trusteer. So I knew both of them. Plus, we have a very active strategy of investing in Israeli companies, but from the West Coast. So Schlomo invested in Trusteer's Series A, and we came in on the Series B as the company's only VC investor.

That was back in the summer of 2008, right? Rough time to back a startup aimed at financial services companies...

Yes. We closed the deal in August 2008, and then then the financial crisis hit the next month. In fact, our first board meeting was in October and we sat around the table wondering if we had any customers who would be solvent in 90 days. But we didn't lose faith, both because of team and because our original investment was largely based on what we believed would be explosive growth in online banking.

Why didn't Trusteer raise a follow-on round?

They didn't have to because they were able to find good, large accounts. And they ran a very tight ship without really building a large sales and marketing organization. The team knew all the customers and what they wanted.

Did you think it was an IPO candidate?

I think it had the potential to be public, it was certainly growing fast enough, but IBM did a great job of presenting itself and its advantages to Trusteer and they prevailed.

When you say "they prevailed," does that mean there was an auction process?

I'm not getting into any of those details.

It's been five years since you first invested. What surprised you the most?

The money. When we originally did the deal I certainly had an expectation that it would follow a more normal financing trajectory for security companies. I never imagined that they could get to this point on just two checks. It was a very pleasant surprise.

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