Elastica was a Silicon Valley cloud security startup that pioneered the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) category, using data science and machine learning to give enterprises visibility into and control over Shadow IT and sanctioned SaaS applications. Its CloudSOC platform combined an API-based control mode (connecting directly to cloud apps such as Office 365, Box, Salesforce, and Google Workspace) with an inline gateway mode for data-loss-prevention, threat detection, and compliance. Backed by Mayfield, Pelion Venture Partners, and Third Point Ventures, Elastica was acquired by Blue Coat Systems for $280 million in November 2015; Blue Coat (with Elastica and Perspecsys) was in turn acquired by Symantec in 2016, where the technology became the Symantec CloudSOC CASB, later part of Broadcom's enterprise security portfolio. Elastica no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no active public developer surface, API, or SDK.
Elastica is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Cloud Security, CASB, and Cloud Access Security Broker.
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name: Elastica
description: Elastica was a Silicon Valley cloud security startup that pioneered the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) category,
using data science and machine learning to give enterprises visibility into and control over Shadow IT and sanctioned SaaS
applications. Its CloudSOC platform combined an API-based control mode (connecting directly to cloud apps such as Office
365, Box, Salesforce, and Google Workspace) with an inline gateway mode for data-loss-prevention, threat detection, and
compliance. Backed by Mayfield, Pelion Venture Partners, and Third Point Ventures, Elastica was acquired by Blue Coat Systems
for $280 million in November 2015; Blue Coat (with Elastica and Perspecsys) was in turn acquired by Symantec in 2016, where
the technology became the Symantec CloudSOC CASB, later part of Broadcom's enterprise security portfolio. Elastica no longer
operates as an independent company and publishes no active public developer surface, API, or SDK.
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by:
- Blue Coat Systems (2015, $280M)
- Symantec (2016, via Blue Coat; became CloudSOC CASB)
- Broadcom (2019, via Symantec Enterprise)
x-enrichment-note: Enrichment pipeline ran 2026-07-19. Elastica is a defunct, acquired company with no independent public
developer surface (no API, OpenAPI, SDK, package, event, or security.txt surface). All artifact recipes are N/A; no artifacts
were fabricated. Historical elastica.* domains now resolve to unrelated parked/third-party owners and are deliberately NOT
associated with this profile.
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- Security
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- Data Loss Prevention
- SaaS Security
- Machine-Learning
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apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
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x-evidence: Backed by Mayfield, Pelion Venture Partners, and Third Point Ventures, Elastica was acquired by Blue Coat Systems
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where th
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