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A direct-to-consumer fashion technology company providing an online platform for brides to design custom wedding dresses.
San Francisco-based Anomalie is a direct-to-consumer fashion technology company that provides an online platform for brides to design and manufacture custom wedding dresses. The platform utilizes proprietary software to streamline the visualization and manufacturing process, delivering bespoke gowns directly to consumers at a lower cost than traditional physical bridal boutiques. Prior to its corporate acquisition, the enterprise served thousands of individual customers across the United States and raised approximately $18 million in total venture funding, which included a $13.6 million Series A round. The company was backed by prominent venture capital firms such as Goodwater Capital and Lerer Hippeau before being acquired by major bridal retailer David's Bridal in May 2022 to integrate its digital styling tools into their broader retail operations. Anomalie was founded in 2016 by Leslie Voorhees Means and Calley Means.
Anomalie has raised $19.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Anomalie has raised $19.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Anomalie has raised $19.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $14.0M Series A in February 2019.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2019 | $14M Series A | Goodwater Capital | Kevin Hartz, Andreessen Horowitz, Asylum Ventures, Broadway Angels, Comeback Capital, Divergent Capital, DNX Ventures, Flex Capital, Goat Capital, Lazerow Ventures, OAK HC/FT, Pareto Holdings, Quadratura.it, Recursive Ventures, Richmond Global Ventures, Saints Capital, SignalFire, Signia Venture Partners, Slow Ventures, SNR, Spark Capital, WGI Group, Y Combinator, Adam D'angelo, Brian O'kelley, Charlie Songhurst, Eric Ries, Eric Stein, Ethan Beard, Evangelos Simoudis, JAY Weintraub, Jeremy Lizt, Joanna Rees, JOE Zawadzki, Justin Rosenstein, KIM Perell, Kyle Vogt, Mark Gerson, RON Hirson, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin, Scott Faber, Tien Tzuo, Travis MAY, Warren Jenson, Heidi ZAK, Jeff Barrett, SAM Lessin, Lerer Hippeau, Signia, SoGal Ventures | Announced |
| Oct 1, 2017 | $5M Seed | — | Andreessen Horowitz, Signia Venture Partners | Announced |
Anomalie has raised $19.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Anomalie's investors include Goodwater Capital, Kevin Hartz, Andreessen Horowitz, Asylum Ventures, Broadway Angels, Comeback Capital, Divergent Capital, DNX Ventures, Flex Capital, Goat Capital, Lazerow Ventures, Oak HC/FT.
Anomali is a cybersecurity company that builds an AI-powered security operations platform, delivering cloud-native big data solutions for threat detection, analytics, and intelligence management.[1][2][3] It serves security teams in enterprises across sectors like finance, healthcare, and technology, solving the problem of overwhelming threat data volumes by fusing internal telemetry with external intelligence for real-time insights, automated enrichment, and high-speed investigations.[1][2] The platform, including tools like ThreatStream and Anomali Copilot, operationalizes threat intelligence at scale, minimizes cyber risk, and supports multi-tenant detection with AI-assisted workflows, driving growth through multiple funding rounds totaling over $96M since 2013.[3]
Anomali was founded in January 2013 by Hugh Njemanze in Redwood City, California, initially as Threat Stream Inc., focusing on threat intelligence platforms.[1][3] The idea emerged from the need to automate threat data processing amid rising cyber threats, with early traction via a $300K seed round in March 2013, followed by a $4M Series A from GV in 2014, $22M Series B from General Catalyst, $30M Series C from IVP in 2016, and $40M Series D from Lumia Capital in 2018.[3] These milestones evolved its focus from basic threat streaming to a comprehensive AI-driven security operations platform, addressing legacy tech burdens for CISOs.[3]
Anomali rides the surge in AI-driven cybersecurity amid escalating threats from advanced persistent actors and big data overload, where legacy SIEMs falter against petabyte-scale telemetry.[2][3] Timing aligns with cloud-native shifts and generative AI adoption, enabling CISOs to modernize operations against AI-fueled attacks in hybrid environments.[3] Market forces like rising breaches in finance and healthcare favor its scalable, intelligence-led XDR, influencing the ecosystem by standardizing threat ops through partnerships and feeding optimized intel back to vendors.[1][4][5]
Anomali is poised to expand its AI Copilot and multi-tenant offerings, targeting deeper XDR adoption as threats evolve with agentic AI and quantum risks. Trends like zero-trust architectures and automated SecOps will amplify its momentum, potentially evolving it into a dominant platform amid consolidation in cybersecurity analytics. This positions Anomali to redefine threat resilience, building on its funding-fueled foundation to outpace competitors in speed and scale.[2][3][5]