“If we succeed in what we set out to do, and we have high expectations – actually high chances of that to happen – we might have another round of investments,” said Florin Talpes, Bitdefender chief executive. “We are now seeing demand arising on the enterprise security solution segment that we might not be able to meet. And so you need money to meet demand, to develop very fast.”
Floatation remains an option for the company, he said. “Floatation is still the ultimate monetization.”
Bitdefender had previously got a $7 million investment from a group of Romanian and US investors in 2007, and the company was valued at $100 million.
It has more than 400 million users for its products and technologies worldwide – a development based on the consumer business manly, but demand for security solutions for data centers, cloud computing and IT infrastructure of companies will see a boom, Talpes says.
“The enterprise segment is where the boom is now. The biggest card we’re playing is virtualization and cloud services, a new segment for us. We had not entered it, but now we are simply going in in full gear because the technologies we have are disruptive.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)