Impermium acquired by Google

From Crunchbase:<p><i>Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup that protects over 1.5M sites and has processed over 8B total transactions in its 3-year history. The company’s advanced risk-evaluation platform improves account management by identifying fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions. It has proven successful at stopping fraudulent user account registrations in real-time — using a blend of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of malicious actors — for hundreds of transactions per second from many of the largest consumer Internet companies.</i><p>It looks like it was founded in 2010 by a few ex-Yahoo! spam guys and had raised $9mm in 2 rounds from the typical list of tech VCs. LinkedIn lists 20 employees, so probably 30ish total.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel lile they&#x27;re thanking their customers for being guinea pigs for experimenting their WIP.systems. That the end game was always a Google acquisition and these customers were just a way to prove that something of value had been built. Now that it is done, so long, and thanks for all the fish.

best $7K spent:<p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/21/impermium/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;21&#x2F;impermium&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;Rather than use an internal data services team, the company turned to Kaggle, a startup that hosts data-driven competitions.<p>From around the world, statisticians competed to build a tool that combines machine learning and natural language processing to root out malicious commentary. The winner received $7,000 — their solution was the most accurate with a false positive rate of less than one percent.<p>After posting the competition, the company received 154 submissions from contenders, and made some interesting discoveries about the nature of hate speech. &quot;

<i>Mental Summarize:</i><p>Impermium is Joining Google!<p>January 15, 2014<p>When we founded Impermium three years ago, our mission was to help rid the web of spam, fraud, and abuse. By joining Google, our team will extend a special thank you to Accel Partners, AOL Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Data Collective, Freestyle Capital, Greylock Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Morado Ventures, and the Social+Capital Partnership.

So what exactly did they do?

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much they were acquired for, seeing has Google dropped ~3 billion on Nest..

Google is on a shopping spree, Eh?!