What Wandera does

Wandera is a London-based, venture-backed cybersecurity company founded in 2012 that provides a unified cloud security solution for the modern workplace, with a core focus on enterprise mobility management and mobile threat defense. The company's product portfolio targets protection against mobile-borne threats across enterprise device fleets, addressing risks introduced by smartphones, tablets, and laptops operating outside traditional perimeter defenses. Wandera's analytical capabilities are anchored by an in-house data science function and principal engineering bench, supporting threat detection across mobile traffic, app behavior, and device telemetry for enterprise IT and security teams.

The business operates as a private, for-profit software vendor selling into enterprise buyers; specific pricing, packaging, and revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed. Wandera has raised approximately $53.5 million across five disclosed funding rounds between 2012 and 2017, with investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 83North, Sapphire Ventures, Greylock, Index Ventures, 14W, and LocalGlobe. The company is led by COO Ben Oxnam and CTO John Edwards, alongside a broader executive team spanning product, engineering, worldwide sales, and finance, with a workforce of 101-250 employees.

Wandera has used public-facing research (most notably a 2019 controlled experiment testing the smartphone eavesdropping hypothesis) to build brand credibility in the mobile security category. No named customers, revenue figures, partner integrations, certifications, or pricing details are disclosed in the available sources, which materially constrains external visibility into commercial performance, customer concentration, and product-roadmap specifics.

Name

Wandera

Website

https://wandera.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Wandera is a London-based cybersecurity firm founded in 2012 that delivers unified cloud security and mobile threat defense for enterprise mobility management, serving enterprise IT and security teams. The company has raised approximately $53.5 million across five funding rounds.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mobile Cybersecurity

NAICS

Security Systems Services (56162), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Mobile Application Security (App Shielding, Anti-Tamper) (HDADACAL)

Keywords

• Mobile cybersecurity
• Enterprise mobility management
• Cloud security solutions
• Mobile threat detection
• Endpoint security

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution that protects the modern workplace through mobile cybersecurity and enterprise mobility management. The platform delivers mobile threat detection and data usage controls for enterprise mobile device fleets. The company's research arm has published controlled experiments investigating mobile device behavior, including testing whether smartphones covertly listen to conversations for targeted advertising.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Unified Cloud Security Solution (Mobile Cybersecurity Platform) A cloud-based mobile cybersecurity and enterprise mobility management platform that delivers threat detection and data usage controls to protect the modern workplace across enterprise mobile device fleets. Sold to enterprise IT and security teams as a subscription-based SaaS offering.

Quantifiable outcome

• Experiment found no evidence of smartphones secretly listening; placing phones in rooms playing pet food ads for 30 minutes daily over 3 days resulted in no pet food advertisements appearing, with data consumption showing virtually no difference compared to control tests

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Lookout: Lookout is a pure-play mobile security vendor offering mobile threat defense, mobile app security, and secure access — directly overlapping Wandera's core product surface and serving the same enterprise mobility buyers.
• Zimperium: Zimperium provides mobile threat defense for iOS, Android, and Chromebook, with on-device detection and a cloud console — the closest technical analogue to Wandera's mobile cybersecurity offering.
• Ivanti (formerly MobileIron): Ivanti's MobileIron product line provides enterprise mobility management and mobile security, directly competing with Wandera for the same EMM/MDM buyer and increasingly bundling MTD capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft (Defender for Endpoint): Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now bundles mobile threat defense for iOS and Android as part of its broader endpoint platform, undercutting standalone MTD vendors on price and integration with the wider Microsoft security stack.
• CrowdStrike: CrowdStrike Falcon extends endpoint detection and response to mobile devices, competing with Wandera at the enterprise tier where buyers prefer a single-vendor endpoint platform.
• BlackBerry (Cylance): BlackBerry's acquisition of Cylance broadened its mobile and endpoint security portfolio, providing an integrated alternative to standalone MTD solutions like Wandera's.
• Cisco (Secure Endpoint / Umbrella): Cisco bundles endpoint and network security across its Secure portfolio, providing an alternative for enterprises that prefer to consolidate mobile security inside an existing Cisco architecture.

Emerging players

• Zscaler: Zscaler's cloud-native secure web gateway and zero-trust platform increasingly encroaches on enterprise mobile traffic inspection — adjacent technology that overlaps with Wandera's network-layer mobile security scope.
• Pradeo: Pradeo provides mobile application security and runtime threat detection for enterprises, with overlap in the app-shielding and mobile-app risk segment of Wandera's product surface.
• Better Mobile Security: Better Mobile Security offers AI-driven mobile threat defense for iOS and Android, competing in the same MTD niche as Wandera, typically at smaller enterprise and mid-market customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Wandera

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors7 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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