Syntensia, a privately held company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden was established in 2005. Syntensia is a pioneer in Security on-Demand solutions and focuses on protecting the SMB networks against security threats. Syntensia’s ‘Security as a Service’ offering bundles everything into a single subscription fee, including comprehensive security features, automatic updates, patches, and 24X7 technical support, thus enabling organizations to eliminate upfront costs, providing a predictable cost structure, ensuring Quality of Service, and the freedom to re-evaluate the solution decision at any time. Syntensia series of Plug-and-Play ready Security Appliances integrate several crucial security features such as Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Prevention System, Anti-virus, Anti-spam, Web filtering, Anti-spyware, Access Management, Bandwidth Management, Traffic Monitoring and Efficient Reporting in a single management platform. In 2008 Syntensia secured financing of $3.5 million with an option for an additional $4 million through a share issue directed to InnovationsKapital, Nordic venture capital firm, and a group of private investors in Sweden and abroad. www.syntensia.com