Broadcom vs Illumio

Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. In 1995, the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles, office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange and now employs approximately 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.

Illumio is an enterprise data center and cloud computing security company. Illumio was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Illumio is backed by venture capital firms that have invested $42.5 million over two rounds of funding. The initial $8 million A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Steve Herrod, former CTO of VMware and Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners led the company's $34.5 million B round with participation by Formation 8, Data Collective, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang.