Leader in Supply Chain Risk Intelligence deepens
customer value, moving into industry-first AI-powered predictive
analytics
ARLINGTON Va., Oct. 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Interos, a global leader in
AI-powered supply chain risk intelligence, trusted by over 100
Fortune 1000 companies and numerous leading federal agencies, today
announced a strategic $40 million
growth capital investment from funds managed by Blue Owl Capital.
This new infusion of capital supports recent momentum the company
has experienced while reinforcing Interos' mission to revolutionize
supply chain resilience at a time when global disruptions are at an
all-time high.
The investment builds on a history of strong financial backing
from top-tier investors, including NightDragon, Kleiner Perkins, and Venrock, alongside
strategic investments from industry powerhouses such as Accenture,
Coupa, and ServiceNow. Together, this robust support positions
Interos to further expand its AI-driven insights, helping
enterprises and governments navigate and mitigate risk across their
global supply chains with unmatched precision and scale.
The investment will focus on strengthening the company's
product-led growth strategy, deepening its AI capabilities and
broadening its multi-vector go-to-market model, enabling Interos to
deliver even more value to customers.
In the post-pandemic world, supply chains have faced increased
risk with heightened geopolitical tensions, far-reaching cyber
attacks and increasingly volatile weather. Interos provides
leading enterprises, as well as major government agencies,
real-time visibility into their extended supply chains through
mapping and monitoring systemic threats and mitigating current and
future supply chain risks.
"The investment from Blue Owl is a vote of confidence for our
vision into AI-powered predictive analytics," says Ted Krantz, CEO of Interos. "As the market
leader, we are primed to accelerate adoption of our platform across
the entire supply chain risk lifecycle at a time when the supply
chain ecosystem has never been more strategic and
complex."
Interos is the trusted risk management partner for both
commercial market leaders including Google and L3Harris, and
federal entities such as NASA and the US Navy. The award-winning
risk intelligence platform continuously analyzes 400+ million
global entities across 11+ billion relationships in the industry's
largest knowledge graph.
Recent momentum includes:
- Adding fresh, highly experienced executive talent
- Expanded ecosystem footprint with Dun and Bradstreet and SAP
Ariba partnerships
- Launching new products like Resilience Watchtower
- Selected as the government-wide supply chain risk management
platform for national security and defense with the U.S. General
Services Administration extending into all Department of Defense
(DoD) and civilian agencies
"We are excited to partner with Interos as a differentiated
supply chain risk management SaaS provider across a broad range of
commercial and government use cases," said Ivan Zinn, Managing Director at Blue Owl
Capital. "Together with Ted and the Interos team, we look
forward to contributing our deep software expertise to accelerate
and align with the Company's mission of expanding its predictive
analytics functionality and further supporting its impressive
growth vector."
Dave DeWalt, Interos Chairman,
Founder and CEO of NightDragon, and former CEO of FireEye, McAfee,
and Documentum, added, "We are living in the midst of a global
supply chain crisis, creating an incredible market opportunity for
innovators like Interos who have the technology, team and mission
drive to solve this critical challenge. With this new infusion of
growth capital, Interos is well-positioned to drive additional
innovation and bring trust and transparency to global supply
chains."
Jefferies LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to Interos
and Cooley LLP acted as legal counsel.
About Interos
Interos is the AI risk intelligence company – building the most
trusted and transparent supply chains in the world. Our pioneering
discovery and monitoring intelligence spans the lifecycle of supply
chain risk, enabling faster and more informed threat mitigation. As
the world's first, and only, automated supplier intelligence
platform, we continuously map and monitor extended supply chains at
speed and scale to protect organizations from regulatory fines,
unethical labor, cyber-attacks, and other systemic vulnerabilities.
Interos serves a variety of commercial, government, and public
sector customers around the world including a host of Global
Fortune 500 companies and from within the members of the Five Eyes
nations. For more information, visit www.interos.ai.
About Blue Owl
Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is
redefining alternatives. With over $192
billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2024, we invest across three
multi-strategy platforms: Credit, GP Strategic Capital, and Real
Estate. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide
businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth
and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and
insurance companies differentiated alternative investment
opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted
returns, and capital preservation. Together with over 820
experienced professionals, Blue Owl brings the vision and
discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit
www.blueowl.com.
Contact:
Lexi Sydow
lsydow@interos.ai
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