This article is a part of a larger series looking at the First Coast's emerging startups, tech innovators, lenders and players in the region's ecosystem.
Jacksonville-based Tauruseer, a cybersecurity software developer, recently received a patent for a new technology that will ensure its continued to success. To talk about the company and further introduce themselves to the First Coast market, the Business-Journal sat down with Tauruseer CEO Jeremy Vaughan. Here is a lightly edited transcript.
What is Tauruseer? How long have you been in business?
We are a cybersecurity firm that helps companies adopt and mature the risk management practices around what the industry is calling DevSecOps, which is securing your software development processes, tools, people, everything that's used to build or maintain digital technology services software.
What did it take for you and your team to get here? What's been some of the early successes and struggles?
As you can imagine, Covid-19 at first was a really bad scenario for us, just simply because the kind of companies that we were talking to had to reallocate their budgets. Going virtual became a big priority. Now, that's become a very big opportunity for us. People are working in their workstations and producing software from all over the world in their homes. That's become a known result for companies, so they are starting to make big investments into it. We've been talking about this type of workflow for years. Even though it hurt at first, now we're actually seeing the trends turn our way.
The other trend that kind of happened was the SolarWinds hack, which was unfortunate that it just exposed the United States of our vulnerabilities. But it also exposed every company in the world's own vulnerabilities as well. We're really working to capture that market. Companies and executives are finally starting to take cybersecurity threats seriously.
Where are you at in your funding cycle and/or what is the next step?
We've gone through an angel round of funding. We've also received several cybersecurity grants. We're working towards a National Science Foundation grant now.
Where do you see this company in five years?
You know, there's obviously, our vision and ambitions to be a big company. We'd like to put Jacksonville on the map as a cybersecurity firm. We're really chugging away at that. Also there's some initiatives that we want to make to our platform and software that give us a highly competitive edge.
