BlackSpider Technologies Limited was a British software company founded in 2002 and subsequently acquired by SurfControl in July 2006.
The Company provided cloud computing services for filtering email spam and other malware.
[citation needed] BlackSpider was a start-up company founded in 2002 by John Cheney[1] in Reading, Berkshire, UK.
In January 2004 Casenove Private Equity invested £4.6m ($6.6m) in the business,[2] allowing the organisation to grow into the French and German markets.
[5] Following the acquisition of SurfControl by Websense, the original BlackSpider Management Team, including John Cheney, left to found Workbooks.com, a provider of web-based CRM software for small businesses.