The browser was supposed to be the window to the web. But somewhere between cat memes and cloud dashboards, it became a broken lock on the enterprise front door. Every tab a risk. Every session a liability. And most IT teams? Playing defense with a hope and a prayer.
Then Island showed up.
Not a vacation. Not an escape. But a battleground built for enterprise control, security, and productivity. The Enterprise Browser wasn’t born in a lab of idealism; it was forged in frustration by two guys who’d been deep in the trenches. Mike Fey, the former President & COO of Symantec, and Dan Amiga, the Israeli intelligence vet who invented web isolation before most CISOs knew what that meant.
Now their creation is standing on a $250 million Series E, led by Coatue Management, with heavy backing from J.P. Morgan Private Capital, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Canapi Ventures, Capital One Ventures, Cisco Investments, Citi Ventures, Cyberstarts, EDBI, Georgian, Prysm Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, and Stripes. That’s not a cap table, it’s a heat map of who actually gets enterprise software right now.
Island isn’t pivoting, iterating, or chasing TAM slides. They’re building the category. A Chromium-based browser that embeds zero trust controls, real-time DLP, session logging, and keystroke obfuscation, all without needing a VDI band-aid or some overworked SSO plug-in. BYOD? Covered. Contractor onboarding? One-click. Productivity? Boosted without compromising compliance.
They didn’t just raise this round because they pitched well. They earned it because ARR has doubled every year since 2022. Because 450 enterprise customers, six of the ten largest U.S. banks among them, are already using it to bring sanity to SaaS governance and web access. Because their R&D hub in Tel Aviv and presence across North America, EMEA, and APAC isn’t just global reach, it’s global relevance.
This isn’t a browser story. It’s a market correction.
You can throw headcount and AI on a security problem and still miss the point. Island understood that the last mile, where the user, the app, and the data collide, is where you win or lose the enterprise. That’s why they’re ISO27001 certified. That’s why they’re on the Forbes Cloud 100. And that’s why this round is a bridge, not a peak. IPO readiness? In motion. 300+ hires incoming. Mobile version on deck. And a roadmap designed like a war plan, not a whiteboard.
Props to Mike Fey, Dan Amiga, and the entire Island team. The enterprise browser isn’t a niche, it’s a necessity. And Island? They’re not just on the map. They are the territory.
