Why This Startup Raised $42.5 Million Before It Came Out Of Stealth

Illumio is a computer security startup with a product so radical, it raised $42.5 million before it even came out of stealth mode, and from a who's who of investors. Its backers include Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, Box's CEO Aaron Levie, Andreessen Horowitz's Ben Horowitz, Joe Lonsdale, Matthew Ocko of Data Collective and Steve Herrod, an early VMware employee turned VC for General Catalyst Partners. In fact, when we met Herrod in the summer, he called Illumio "one ...