Island,
the Enterprise Browser company, announced its $250 million Series E
financing round. This brings Island's valuation to $4.8 billion in less
than five years since its 2020 founding.
Coatue Management
led the new funding, with several existing investors participating in
the round. Island has secured approximately $730 million in outside
investment to date.
"The Enterprise Browser upgrades web browsers from a dedicated consumer
software package to an enterprise-ready solution, adding value to
knowledge workers, IT departments, and security teams. Island improves
productivity, simplifies the IT stack, reduces complexity, and embeds
security," said Mike Fey, CEO and Co-founder of Island. "Organizations
of all sizes and industries have made Island the cornerstone of their IT
modernization initiatives. The new funding will help scale our product
development and talent acquisition to meet enterprises' demanding and
evolving IT needs."
Island has approximately 500 employees, with more than 200 in product
development and engineering. Island emerged from stealth mode in
February 2022. Since that time, the company has won 450 customers, with
annual recurring revenue more than doubling each year following.
"Customer collaboration has been the key to building the Enterprise
Browser since day one," said Dan Amiga, CTO and Co-founder of Island.
"Creating and growing a new category requires deep technical
partnerships and maximum trust between CIOs, CISOs, and product teams.
Our customers' input has been invaluable to securing their sensitive
data, eliminating IT inefficiencies, and making IT work best for end
users."
Island has seen traction across every major vertical and size of
organization, from Fortune 1000 enterprises to small and midmarket
companies to government agencies and higher education institutions.
"We're thrilled to continue our partnership with Island as they scale
their vision and bring greater security and productivity to the modern
workplace," said David Schneider, General Partner at Coatue. "Island's
world-class executive team has continued to deliver a product that
drives immense value for enterprise executives and end users alike. As
AI adoption continues to accelerate, Island is helping establish a new
industry standard. Companies of all sizes should now rely on secure
environments like Island to remain competitive and protect their
operations. We look forward to supporting their next stage of growth."
The Island Enterprise Browser
The Island Enterprise Browser is the ideal enterprise workspace, where
application delivery is simple, data is fundamentally secure, and work
itself is smooth and natural. By embedding the core IT, security, and
productivity needs into the browser itself, Island provides
organizations with unprecedented last-mile control, enabling them to
precisely govern all browser activity.
IT teams log and audit work activity while keeping personal browsing
private. Security teams protect sensitive data from even the most
sophisticated attacks, with a secure-by-design architecture. And users
gain productivity-enhancing features while working in the familiar
Chromium-based browser experience.
Leading enterprises across all industries are using the Enterprise
Browser to deliver secure access to SaaS and web apps, enable zero-trust
network access, make BYOD viable, onboard contractors in minutes not
weeks, support smooth M&A transitions, reduce reliance on virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI), and transform how work gets done.