MirrorTab announced it
has raised $8.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Valley
Capital Partners, with participation from GV, Ludlow Ventures, Altman
Capital Fund, NextGen Venture Partners, and Alumni Ventures.
MirrorTab dynamically protects web applications without impacting user
experience or requiring additional software or plugins. Using isolation
technology, MirrorTab removes the browser as an attack surface,
obfuscating data, code, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to
establish the most secure web sessions. This ensures that sensitive
business, personal and financial information can be shared with
confidence. The company plans to use its seed funding to aggressively
build out its innovative capabilities, integrations, and commercialize
its availability.
"Browsers have become the battleground for hacking, bots, and malware,"
said Brian Silverstein, CEO and founder of MirrorTab. "Cyberattacks have
evolved, leveraging browsers, AI and automation to evade detection,
mimic human-like behavior, and execute attacks that cannot be prevented
with typical web security controls. MirrorTab addresses this critical
blind spot in traditional detection-based solutions."
Before founding MirrorTab, Brian co-founded Honey, the shopping rewards
browser extension that helps users save money with coupons. With the
rise of AI and increasing attack complexity, he saw how similar
technology could be weaponized by bad actors to exploit web sessions
without the user or platform ever knowing. When data is rendered into
the browser, it becomes exposed to threats such as malware and bad
extensions, exposing customers and platforms to fraud and privacy leaks
that are invisible to perimeter defenses.
"MirrorTab protects any web platform by securing the session itself-a
capability that Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and bot management
tools don't have," said Allison Miller, MirrorTab Advisor and Former
CISO and VP of Trust at Reddit, who also held cybersecurity roles at
Bank of America, Google, PayPal, and Visa. "It creates a secure,
bot-proof wrapper. Even if the client is untrusted or compromised,
MirrorTab ensures sensitive information doesn't leak, under all
circumstances. In high-stakes interactions, such as account takeovers or
fraud, MirrorTab provides the gold standard of protection without
disrupting the user experience."
"Attackers have discovered that the browser can be actively and
extensively exploited - and that there's currently no way to stop them,"
said Steve O'Hara, Founder and Managing Partner at Valley Capital
Partners. "Recent events have shown just how devastating these attacks
can be, with critical personal and financial information easily
acquired. The scale of fraud, theft, and damage attributable to these
client side attacks is shocking and unacceptable. We believe that
MirrorTab has created an innovative and effective solution that is
unmatched in stopping these hard-to-detect attacks."