Mitro was founded in 2012 by
Vijay Pandurangan, Evan Jones, and Adam Hilss. Mitro was backed by $1.2 million in seed funding from
Google Ventures and
Matrix Partners. On July 31, 2014, the Mitro team announced that they would join
Twitter, and at the same time, they released the source code for Mitro on
GitHub as
free software under
GPL. ==Security==