Barracuda Networks CEO Dean Drako Nets $40 million in Financing from big name VCs

| John Furrier | Feb 13th, 2006 9:19am |

PodTech’s John Furrier had a chance to sit down with Dean Drako, CEO of Barracuda Networks, to talk about the recent success of his company. Last month Barracuda Networks landed a $40 million dollar investment from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley which included Sequoia Capital and Francisco Partners. Dean talks candidly during the interview. He smiles while he deflects the question “will you go public”?

Barracuda Networks was PodTech’s first sponsor back in May 2005. Dean talks about how the podcasts and sponsorship of PodTech really contributed to getting the word out about Barracuda.

During my meeting with Dean we also talked about entrepreneurship and how to grow your business without taking venture capital. That podcast will be posted later this week under the entrepreneurship channel on PodTech.

Tags: John Furrier, Dean Drako, Barracuda Networks, Sequoia Capital, Francisco Partners, PodTech, entrepreneurship, venture capital

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