Monday, December 11, 2017

Alpin Launches With $1M In Funding

Boulder-based Alpin, which provides IT monitoring and management tools, said this morning that it has launched its service, to help IT administrators discover "shadow IT" in the enterprise. The company said it is backed by more than $1M in funding from the Rockies Venture Club, along with Nebraska Angels, Plains Angels, Keiretsu Capital, Rockies Venture Fund, Techstars and individual angel investors. Alpin was founded by Julien Denaes, Benjamin Soulier and Mark Evans. Alpin said it tools help IT administrators discover what cloud services people are using--which it called "shadow IT", some of which are "potentially malicious and can cripple an organization."