Securly Raises $16M in Series B Funding
Summary
Securly , a San Jose, CA-based startup focused on keeping kids safe online, raised $16m in Series B financing.The company intends to use the funds to accelerate further research and development in K-12 safety, and ramp up sales and support.Its Filter & Auditor products provide electronic monitoring, alerting & filtering solutions to thousands of school districts worldwide.In addition, the company has expanded its product suite to include Parent Portal, 24, Tipline, Classroom, and the Hub.Its machine learning algorithms are constantly trained by safety specialists with safe and unsafe content, and when the algorithms flag new content as potentially disturbing, 24×7 student safety experts engage with the alerts to evaluate the fuller context behind the flagged activity, eliminate false alarms, and reach out to schools, parents or authorities as needed.