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1997

  • Three partners found Fallingbrook Technologies in Ottawa, ON, Canada

1999

  • Company is renamed Cloakware

2000

  • First flagship patent is filed
  • First license agreement to use Cloakware DRM technology in an e-book product is signed
  • US$3M first-round financing is secured

2002

  • Cloakware Transcoder is launched
  • Cloakware Transcoder is licensed to a leading US software company
  • Cloakware receives Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award
  • First customer in EMEA is signed
  • White-box cryptography is launched

2003

  • TD Ventures, Covington Capital, and Intel invest US$4.6M in Series A financing
  • Intel Capital licenses technology to Cloakware
  • First patent is awarded for data flow code transformations
  • Irdeto becomes a customer
  • Cloakware Security Suite for application developers is launched

2004

  • Cloakware becomes a Microsoft Security Partner for Windows Media DRM

2005

  • Cloakware reincorporates in Delaware
  • TD Ventures, Globespan Capital, Covington Capital, and Intel Capital invest US$10M in Series B financing
  • First customer in Asia-Pacific, Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (MBCo), is signed
  • Cloakware Server Password Manager, an enterprise security product, is launched
  • Cloakware joins Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)

2006

  • Year-over-year number of contracts triples
  • 100th employee is hired
  • First US enterprise channel partner is signed

2007

  • Cloakware technology is deployed to over one billion client applications worldwide
  • Irdeto signs agreement to acquire Cloakware
  • Acquisition of Cloakware closes