Lookout Mobile Security

Lookout is a company that has specialized in the security of smartphones and tablets and offers mobile security solutions for Android and iOS. The company is based in San Francisco has 20 million users in 400 mobile networks in 170 countries worldwide.

History

Back in 2005, John Hering had pointed out the danger to be able to spy on mobile phones and many phones Celebrity chopped helping the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. In 2007 he founded together with his college friends Kevin Mahaffey and James Burgess, which specializes in mobile security company Flexilis, emerged from the 2009 Lookout. Currently Lookout has more than 100 employees and 20 million users worldwide. John Hering, founder and CEO of Lookout, was presented by the American publication VentureBeat one of the " 10 Disruptive Individuals Reshaping the Mobile Industry ".

Products and services

• Lookout Security & Antivirus
• Lookout for iOS
• Ad Network Detector
• Mobile Threat Tracker:
• Plan B

Investors and partnerships

In several rounds of financing Lookout gathered $ 75 million from investors Accel Partners, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Trilogy Equity Partners. The largest part contributed with 40 million dollars in Netscape founder Andreessen Horowitz.

In April 2012, Lookout and the German Telekom entered into a strategic partnership. Together, they want to develop and sell applications for the protection of mobile devices. In the course of cooperation, Telekom will also provide the app Lookout Mobile Security to its customers in Europe.