Cybersecurity firm achieves 'unicorn' status, expands to Utah

Tampa-based ReliaQuest's valuation, thanks to a new venture funding round, tops $1 billion.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 8:57 a.m. December 1, 2021
File. ReliaQuest founder and CEO Brian Murphy.
File. ReliaQuest founder and CEO Brian Murphy.
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TAMPA — The pre-money valuation of ReliaQuest, a Tampa-based company that provides cybersecurity services for hundreds of Fortune 1000 firms, has surpassed $1 billion, making it the industry's latest "unicorn," thanks to a funding round led by KKR, with additional investment from Ten Eleven Ventures, FTV Capital and ReliaQuest founder and CEO Brian Murphy.

 

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