"[1] In June 2014, SourceClear raised a $1.5 million seed round from a group of investors, including the former CSOs at Yahoo!, Verisign and Symantec and from Frank Marshall, the first VP of engineering at Cisco Systems.

[3][4] SourceClear again made headlines in November 2015, when it identified a flaw in Spring Social, a popular Java application library.

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