1.
Julio Casal
Founder & CTO 4iQ
jcasal@4iq.com
4th March 2019
European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering
From Cyber Security to Cyber Intelligence
Building the Madrid-Granada-Silicon Valley Connection

2.
Early days as a Madrid coder

3.
Early Software Days in Madrid
Cybered
an UCCP provider
Seguridad
1989
Madrid Complutense
Physics Falculty
Automatic Calculus
specialization
UUCP Provider Cyber Security & Penetration Testing
1995 1997 2000
Dominique Karg
Santiago Bassett

4.
Search for a Product
Firewall
Content Filtering
Intrusion
Detection
Vulnerability
Assessement

5.
Why will I Survive?

6.
Product Vision
Security Operation Centers
Year 2003

7.
`Open Source Business Model
Year 2003

8.
Prod Web Downloads Leads Quotes Sales
Competitive Advantage of Open Source
Refer
ence
POC
Leadgen
Testing
Code
Development
Brand

9.
Competitive Advantage

10.
10M
Code lines
Code Web Downloads Leads Sales
100,000
visits
10,000
uniq downloads
1,000
leads
0
International Sales
2003 2006 2007 2009 April 2010
Conversion from project to startup

11.
62 customers in 25 countries - 31 Dec 2010

12.
Self funded company in Madrid & Granada

13.
First Venture Capital Raised – Spanish Fund

14.
RSA 2010

15.
Moving to Silicon Valley - 2010
Huge competitive
landscape as
compared to Spain

16.
2011 - First US Venture
Capital - Trident
2012 2013
2013

17.
2012 Madrid

18.
RSA 2016-2018

19.
June 2018 - Biggest
Spanish Startup Exit

20.
Journey of a Spanish Startup to Silicon Valley
1997-2003
Service
Companies
Series A
Spanish VC
2011
Series B
US VC
2012
US Executive
Mgmt
Relocation
2007
AlienVault Creation
Enterprise Product
2010
US Customers
2012-
2017
Series
C-E
2003
Open
Source
2018
Exit

21.
• From Service to
Product
• Top engineering
and creativity

22.
4iQ IDLake™ - the largest collection of exposed Identities
4iQ IDLake™ - the largest collection of exposed Identities
Adversary Intelligence
Who? Why? Where?
Business Model
Infrastructure
Risk Exposure
Exposed Assets
Executives and Employees is exposed
What’s the Risk?
From Cyber Security to Cyber
Intelligence

23.
Cyber Intelligence
4iQ Board
Alberto Yépez
Mike Rogers
Barmak Meftah
Javier Monzón
2013
Investors
$32M SERIES A&B
Engineering
Madrid &
Granada
Sales-Marketing
Silicon Valley

24.
Thank You!