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Santiago Bassett - Wazuh - Growing Cybersecurity Startups in Granada & Silicon Valley - Stanford Engineering - 4 March 2019
Santiago Bassett, founder and CEO of Wazuh, has over 16 years of experience in cybersecurity and open source software development. Wazuh, established in 2015 and based in Granada and Campbell, has grown organically with 60 employees, 20,000 active enterprise users, and 40% year-on-year revenue growth, servicing millions of servers. The company is part of Granada's emerging tech ecosystem and emphasizes an open-source approach as its primary marketing strategy.
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- 1. Santiago Bassett -Wazuh founder and CEO Growing Enterprise Cybersecurity Startups in Granada Building Granada – Silicon Valley Ecosystem Bridges European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering March 4th 2019
- 2. • Cybersecurity engineerfor 16 years • Open source software developer • OSSEC and AlienVault engineer • Wazuh founder and CEO
- 3. • 60 employees •Funded in 2015 • Offices in Granada and Campbell • Open source security software • Securing millions of servers • Organic growth and cash flow positive • Successful startup without venture capital
- 4. • ~100 recurrentcustomers • Revenue growth +40% YoY • ~4,000 visits/week to our documentation • ~5,000 downloads per week • ~20,000 active enterprise users
- 5. • Biotechnology cluster •Public university with 80,000 students • School of Information Technology • School of Telecommunications • Business and Innovation Center • Center for technology based startups
- 6. • City ofsouthern Spain • 280,000 city population • 950,000 province population • Alhambra palace and fortress • Seven centuries of Muslim history • Reconquered by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 • Same year Europeans discovered America
- 7. • Spanish talentat work! • Granada emerging technological hub • Providing services worldwide • Scalable business model • Open source as go to market • Our code is our marketing • Software tested by thousands of users • Open source community contributions
- 8. - - -- • Graduated at Granada University • Learnt about Wazuh at the university • Joined the Wazuh team in 2016 • Leads a 15 people development team • Working for several Fortune 100 • His code runs in millions of servers • Moving to San Francisco next year
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