$68m Logentries sale will lead to more Dublin jobs

Logentries has 70 staff split between Dublin and Boston, but new owner Rapid7 expects number to grow

Andrew Burton, chief executive of Logentries
Corey Thomas chief executive of Rapid7. Picture: Patrick Bolger/Adrien Bisson

Logentries’ office on Lombard Street in Dublin 2 is only mildly humming, a couple of days after the software business was sold for $68 million.

The sale price comprised $36 million in cash and $32 million in equity in its new owner Rapid7, a Nasdaq-listed security data ...