Based in Mountain View and Cork, the company focuses on secure web gateways.
[1][2] Following the shift of many companies to remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic, Agarwal founded dope.security to adapt secure web gateways to a growing market of workers accessing company servers through cloud computing or home Internet rather than centralized office networks.
[1] Speaking with TechCrunch, Agarwal recalled that during his engineering career, he encountered customers who complained about outages and other performance issues from existing secure web gateways that relied on data centers.
[1] In September 2022, Boldstart Ventures provided the initial $4 million seed investment for dope.security, which began operations with 30 employees.
[5] The main dope.security product is the Fly Direct Secure Web Gateway (dope.swg), which is based at a communication endpoint rather than stopover data centers.