TriplePoint Capital offers leases and loans to finance companies' equipment or growth-capital needs. The company offers debt-financing products, including equipment leases, equipment loans, and growth capital loans. The company's equipment leases and equipment loans are used to finance equipments, such as computers and servers, electronic test and measurement equipment, telecommunications equipment, laboratory equipment, office furniture, and software.

TriplePoint Capital

TechSquare Labs is an incubator, seed fund and 15k sf of coworking and corporate innovation space. They are driven to Build Something From Nothing with companies ranging from two guys and a laptop to established enterprises looking to stay ahead of the pack. They do this by combining experience in patents, research, and team building with a network that spans from freshman coders to Fortune 500 CEO’s. TechSquare Labs is in Atlanta for its incredible density of educational institutions, enterprises, and entertainment. Over 250,000 students call Atlanta home along with 27 Fortune 1000 companies that generate nearly a half a trillion dollars in revenue. The city drew in $6 billion from film production budgets in the last fiscal year alone. They have hung their hat in the middle of it all in Technology Square. In addition to a cluster of corporate innovation labs and startups, the area is swarming with tech talent from Georgia Tech – where more engineers graduate than MIT and Stanford combined. TechSquare Labs was founded by Dr. Paul Judge and Allen Nance, two technology entrepreneurs with a track record of building, advising, and investing in successful technology companies.

TechSquare Labs

Monta Vista Capital is an investment company focused on early stage B2B companies.  It was founded in 2014.

Monta Vista Capital

Wisemont Capital fund makes equity investments in early-stage technology companies with a primary focus on wireless and mobility, software, and technology-enabled service companies. Their team of experienced investment professionals is committed to working with entrepreneurs to build great companies that address unmet needs in the marketplace. In addition to providing capital, They leverage Their broad industry knowledge, relationships and investment experience to complement the strengths of the entrepreneur.  Their focus is on ambitious entrepreneurs, disruptive technology and sustainable businesses.

Wisemont Capital

SV Tech Ventures focuses its investments primarily on companies that have successfully demonstrated their capabilities to develop advanced technologies.

SV Tech Ventures

Shasta Ventures invests in startups in sectors. Their program consists of a proven methodology and a set of comprehensive playbooks that dive deep into the obstacles and challenges of early-stage startups. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to early-stage, so this agile program allows founders to tap into the resources they need when they need them.

Shasta Ventures

Dell Technologies Capital is the investment arm for Dell Technologies.  We’ve invested in over 100 companies that push the envelope on digital technology for enterprises and consumers.  We are a team of world-class investors who help our companies succeed.  We focus on early-stage investments with passionate founders. Our companies gain unique access to the go-to-market capabilities of Dell Technologies. For more information visit www.delltechcapital.com

Dell Technologies Capital

Touchdown Ventures is a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm that partners with corporations to invest in early and growth-stage companies across a variety of industries, including information technology, media, consumer, health, and industrial.

Touchdown Ventures

T-Mobile Ventures is an early-to-mid stage venture fund that invests in companies developing core technologies, products, and services that unlock the power of a nationwide 5G network. Its primary focus areas include Edge Computing, Future of Work, Security, and Industrial IoT. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

T-Mobile Ventures

Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber, Rover.com, Poshmark); Consumer Services (Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri); Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Fire hydrant); SaaS (Carta, ScoutRFP, Qualia, Benchling, Everlaw); Fintech (Betterment, Bluevine, Chime); Cybersecurity (Cavium, IronPort, BitSight, Abnormal, StackRox); and Life Sciences Technology (Synthego, Cofactor Genomics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, 3T Biosciences). Menlo’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing in Menlo Ventures XV, a $500 million early-stage fund, as well as its $500 million Inflection Fund, which targets early-growth investments.

Menlo Ventures

HarbourVest is an independent investment firm that provides innovative private equity solutions to institutional clients worldwide.  As one of the first private equity fund-of-funds, they have a long and distinguished history of investing in venture, buyout, and mezzanine and distressed markets in the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific, and emerging markets through primary partnerships, secondary purchases, and direct investments.

HarbourVest Partners

Titanium Ventures identifies and scales the most promising companies across a variety of AI, digital and software sectors by complementing its strong, experienced team with proprietary Data Science insights and its Revenue Acceleration platform.

Titanium Ventures

Based in Palo Alto, CA, Icon Ventures is a specialty venture capital firm focused on leading Series B or C financings. With over $780 million under management, Icon invests with the world’s leading venture firms in companies that are category winners at their earliest stages of momentum. Icon Ventures investments include iconic, market-leading companies such as Aster Data, FireEye, 41st Parameter, Infinera, MoPub, Palo Alto Networks and Proofpoint. For more information visit: iconventures.com.

Icon Ventures

Cequence Security

Cequence is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company founded in 2014 and based in Sunnyvale, California. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, the company has developed the Cequence Unified API Protection (UAP) Platform, unifying API discovery, compliance, and testing with real-time detection and native prevention to protect customers’ web, mobile, and API applications against attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud. The Cequence UAP solution provides a complete API security platform that allows customers to discover their APIs, ensure they are security compliant, and protect them from attacks in real time. Cequence Security customers include Fortune and Global 500 organizations across multiple vertical markets. The executive team is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.

<div>Cequence Security offers a platform for enterprises to safeguard their APIs and web applications from bot attacks by detecting and mitigating them in real-time. The platform also provides protection against account takeover, unauthorized data access, fraudulent transactions, and fake account creation. The company uses its proprietary CQAI analytics engine that leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to detect malicious traffic and bot attacks.</div>

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

Cequence Security Ranked Among the Fastest-Growing Companies in North America on the 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™

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 Cequence Security offers a platform for enterprises to safeguard their APIs and web applications from bot attacks by detecting and mitigating them in real-time. The platform also provides protection against account takeover, unauthorized data access, fraudulent transactions, and fake account creation. The company uses its proprietary CQAI analytics engine that leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to detect malicious traffic and bot attacks.
 
 
 As of June 2021, the company has also partnered with AWS, Fastly, Gigamon, and Okta to enhance its product offerings. These deals allow Cequence to bundle offer API and web application security alongside its partners&rsquo; products.
 
 
 Following the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the company recorded a growth of 2.5x and claims to have recorded a &ldquo;pretty high ARR&rdquo; in 2020. As of December 2021, the company doubled its customer base year-over-year (YoY), and served more than 85 global brands including several Fortune 100 and 500 companies such as T-Mobile, Est&eacute;e Laude, and American Express. The company also had an employee headcount of over 100, which it intends to expand to over 250 by 2022.
 
 
 In December 2021, the company raised USD 60 million in a Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The company expected to utilize the funds to expand its product features, product portfolio (with plans to launch a new self-service subscription solution in 2022), team, co-marketing activities, and global presence in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
 
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 Cato Networks provides cloud security products such as Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs), Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), and cloud-based firewalls to enterprises through its SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architecture, claiming to be the first in the world to provide the service. Cato Network&rsquo;s SASE offering is provided through a network distributed across over 65 locations globally as of October 2021.
 
 
 
 
 Cato Networks was founded by Shlomo Kramer, who also co-founded the incumbent cybersecurity company Check Point Software. In 2020, the company reported over 240% year-over-year (YoY) growth in the number of bookings, making FY2020 its fourth consecutive year to exceed 200% growth. During the year, the company signed multiple Fortune 500 companies, and as of October 2021, it served more than 900 enterprises across 9,000 locations, translating to 200,000 remote workers using Cato&rsquo;s SASE offering daily. As of November 2020, the company employed 270 staff with plans to reach 400 by the end of 2021.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Cato Networks&rsquo; last funding round was in November 2020, raising USD 130 million in Series E funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a valuation in excess of USD 1 billion. The company expects to use the funding for product development with plans to invest in engineering, growing its team, and expanding marketing efforts.
 
 
 
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Cato Networks

<div>
 
 Netskope provides cloud security solutions for enterprises that include cloud-delivered secure web gateways (SWGs), cloud access security brokers (CASB), and other solutions to manage access to cloud workloads. These solutions help companies monitor the use of cloud applications and identify suspicious behavior. Netskope&rsquo;s tools attempt to replace legacy solutions such as VPNs. The company introduced a unified solution in 2019 called &ldquo;NewEdge,&rdquo; combining its security technology offerings and providing them under secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. The rollout followed the acquisition of New Edge Labs in 2019 for an undisclosed amount, in line with its strategy of acquiring smaller startups to fuel expansion. Netskope also acquired Sift Security in 2018, which provides a machine learning-based tool to detect and respond to threats to cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) applications such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Netskope joined the cohort of Solista&rsquo;s Zero Trust Alliance in July 2021, to assist Australian organizations in developing a toolset and framework in assessing their zero trust readiness while detecting and remediating internal and external threats.
 
 
 NewEdge is delivered using data centers in 40 regions worldwide including North America, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, enabling a low-latency cloud security offering. As of March 2021, the company had invested in excess of USD 100 million to build the NewEdge infrastructure. The company claimed that its tools protected more than 10% of Microsoft Office 365&rsquo;s commercial users as of the same date.
 
 
 Netskope&rsquo;s product offerings were backed by more than 100 global patents as of January 2023, and the company served more than 2,400 customers globally including more than 25 of the Fortune 100 companies. Furthermore the company has a total employee headcount of more than 2,500 in more than 40 countries.
 
 
 In April 2023 Netskope announced 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17658">
 the addition of a new software-defined wide area network
 </a>
 (SD-WAN) service to its platform, designed to provide enterprises with the ability to ensure secure access to their infrastructure from endpoint devices in any location. Netskope planned to offer the new SD-WAN alongside its existing SSE product to provide a unified SASE client, which it claimed was an industry first.
 
 
 In June 2023, 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19604">
 Netskope updated its secure service edge (SSE) platform
 </a>
 to help address data leakage risks of generative AI applications like ChatGPT. The updated platform allows organizations to track usage of generative AI applications, manage access controls, and automatically prevents leakage of sensitive information.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In July 2021, Netskope partnered with cybersecurity company, Chillisoft, to accelerate sales for cloud-based SASE protection to 1,250 resellers and integrators, including more than 100 managed service providers (MSPs) across New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
 
 
 Netskope 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10845">
 acquired the IoT security startup
 </a>
 WootCloud in June 2022 integrating WootCloud&rsquo;s HyperContext Security platform with its Intelligent Security Service Edge (SSE) platform to expand its SSE and Zero Trust capabilities. This was followed by the 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12036">
 acquisition of cloud networking vendor
 </a>
 Infiot in August 2022 to deliver an integrated single-vendor SASE platform to its customers by leveraging Infiot&rsquo;s technologies to offer a uniform security and quality of experience (QoE) policies to the Netskope Borderless WAN.
 
 
 Netskope 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15413">
 partnered 
 </a>
 with Stellar Cyber, a open extended detection and response (Open XDR) startup in December 2022, to provide a joint solution that incorporates rich user-centric data to improve control and visibility of risks and threats across incident investigations conducted by Security Operation Center (SOC) analysts.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In January 2023, the company 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15521">
 raised USD 401 million in convertible notes
 </a>
 led by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value. The funds were utilized to accelerate platform development and expand its go-to-market strategy.
 
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Netskope

<div>
 
 SentinelOne offers a range of endpoint protection solutions for enterprises. The company provides the artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform &ldquo;Singularity,&rdquo; which is a unified offering for endpoint security, including a next-generation antivirus (NGAV), endpoint detection and response tools (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), and other tools to monitor endpoint behavior from laptops, phones, and internet-of-things (IoT) devices to identify threats. Singularity ActiveEDR incorporates Storyline Active Response (STAR) to provide automated threat detection and response and also enables end-users to write custom MITRE-compatible detection rules. SentinelOne&rsquo;s endpoint protection offering also extends to cloud endpoints and workloads, offering AI and behavior-based protection for virtual machines (VMs) and containers in the cloud. Singularity also provides features to centrally control cybersecurity policies and automate tasks for response and remediation. In addition to endpoint security, SentinelOne offers managed detection and response services, which support organizations with technology and human resources for threat hunting, response, and incident investigation.
 
 
 In April 2023, 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17965">
 SentinelOne launched a generative AI platform
 </a>
 for threat detection, allowing security teams to run threat detection and automated remediation operations using natural language instead of code based commands.
 
 
 In November 2023 the company 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23867">
 launched
 </a>
 a new, unified version of its Singularity platform, Singularity Unity, with upgraded cloud and endpoint security and data lake capabilities, as well as a GenAI cybersecurity assistant. Unity incorporated SentinelOne&rsquo;s &ldquo;PurpleAI&rdquo; models to simplify investigations, governance, and compliance and improving metrics such as mean time to detect/resolve (MTTD/MTTR).
 
 
 SentinelOne acquired cloud data-logging startup Scalyr in February 2021 for USD 155 million to bolster its own XDR capabilities. SentinelOne also entered into an agreement to acquire the identity threat detection and response (ITDR) startup 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9176">
 Attivo Networks 
 </a>
 for USD 616.5 million in March 2022, and expects to integrate Attivo Networks&rsquo; capabilities into its Singularity XDR solution to provide autonomous protection. This includes ITDR, identity infrastructure assessment, and identity cyber deception capabilities to protect endpoint, cloud workloads, IoT devices, mobile, and data against identity compromise, lateral movement attacks, credential theft, data cloaking, and more. This acquisition will also add to SentinelOne&rsquo;s gross margin and expand its total addressable market (TAM) by USD 4 billion in the critical identity security category.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 SentinelOne partnered with cloud services and cybersecurity distributor Exclusive Networks in July 2021 to launch its platform for Australian and New Zealand MSP and MSSPs. During the same period, the company inked a partnership with ConnectWise to offer its standalone endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions to its global partner base of technology solution providers (TSPs).
 
 
 SentinelOne has partnered with managed detection and response (MDR) 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/4878">
 providers 
 </a>
 such as 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/228245">
 Red Canary 
 </a>
 , deepwatch, and 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/505475">
 BlueVoyant 
 </a>
 to 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/sectors/work/updates/6173">
 integrate 
 </a>
 its solution with the latter&rsquo;s MDR offerings. In addition, SentinelOne has also partnered with 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/75116">
 Zscaler 
 </a>
 , a cloud network security 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/sectors/work/updates/5182">
 company 
 </a>
 , and Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and website security 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/5182">
 company 
 </a>
 , to push its own offerings through Zscaler and SentinelOne&rsquo;s services. It also 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12082">
 partnered
 </a>
 with the observable data management company, Cribl in August 2022 to leverage the latter&rsquo;s observability product suite to streamline cybersecurity triage, optimize data collection, and provide security teams control of their data. During the same month, the company 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12235">
 partnered
 </a>
 with the IoT security startup, Armis to jointly provide three unified solutions that protect organizations across endpoints, cloud, mobile, IoT, OT devices, and more. In December 2021, Sentinel 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/7149">
 partnered 
 </a>
 with Attivo Networks, to integrate its Singularity XDR with Attivo Networks&rsquo; Endpoint Detection Net (EDN) suite for a combined solution that prevents attackers from compromising endpoints, and to detect lateral movements to provide Active Directory protection, credential theft detection, and removal of exposed credentials. The company 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12331">
 partnered
 </a>
 with the cybersecurity and compliance company, Proofpoint to integrate SentinelOne Singularity XDR and Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) solutions and provide organizations with threat intelligence, detection, and response across emails, endpoints, cloud, and identity management. In 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16912">
 March 2023
 </a>
 , SentinelOne partnered with cloud network security provider Wiz to provide end-to-end cloud security solutions by leveraging each company&rsquo;s platform. With their combined capabilities, the joint solution was claimed to detect and remediate cybersecurity threats faster than stand-alone platforms.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s last private funding round was in November 2020, where it raised USD 267 million in a Series F funding round led by Tiger Global Management, and the company expects to use the funding to support the growth of its Singularity platform.
 
 
 In June 2021, SentinelOne 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/3850">
 commenced 
 </a>
 trading in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker &ldquo;S,&rdquo; raising USD 1.2 billion in its initial public offering (IPO) at an implied valuation of USD 8.9 billion. The company expected to use the proceeds for working capital, product development, capital expenditure, and administrative matters. The company also aimed to use part of the funds to acquire and invest in complementary businesses and technologies.
 
 
 SentinelOne 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13278">
 launched 
 </a>
 &ldquo;S Ventures&rdquo;, a USD 100 million venture fund, to invest in enterprise cybersecurity startups, in September 2022. S Ventures invested in Armorblox, an API email security platform, and Noetic Cyber, a continuous cyber asset management and controls platform. These companies joined its portfolio companies which include Torq, a no-code security automation platform, and 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1695999">
 Laminar 
 </a>
 , a cloud-native data security startup.
 
 
 In 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17067">
 FY2023
 </a>
 , the company reported a revenue of USD 422.2 million, representing a YoY growth of 106% and an adjusted gross margin of 72%. The company saw its annual recurring revenue (ARR) growing at 88% to close at USD 548.7 million and the number of customers grew around 50% YoY to exceed 10,000 in Q4 FY2023. Management guidance for revenue for FY2024 stands in the range of USD 631 million and USD 640 million.
 
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SentinelOne

<div>
 
 Lacework is a cloud security company offering solutions for enterprises to protect their cloud and container workloads at scale. These include tools that employ automation and machine learning in order to enable developers to build cloud applications securely, along with tools to monitor multi-cloud environments, detect misconfigurations and threats, and identify behavioral anomalies during runtime. As of November 2021, Lacework recorded more than 3x YoY growth in revenue and a 3.5x YoY increase in the customer base, which includes the likes of LogicMonitor, Hypergiant, and Sprinklr. Lacework employed over 1,000 staff as of March 2022, five times its headcount in January 2021. The company was however forced to lay off 20% of its headcount in May 2022 in a bid to improve its liquidity position amid uncertain economic conditions.
 
 
 Lacework announced its first-ever acquisition&mdash;the cloud-native security startup Soluble, in November 2021. Soluble provides automated testing and policy management to detect and remediate cloud misconfigurations and policy violations at the source code. Lacework will integrate Soluble&rsquo;s technology into its automated cloud security platform to expand into IaC remediation capabilities, which will enable Lacework to enhance existing workflows and protect software development lifecycles&mdash;at build, runtime, and the source code level. The company also launched new developer-focused features in its platform&mdash;vulnerability scanner, admission controller, risk-based scoring, extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) support&mdash;to detect and remediate container vulnerabilities in the development process.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Lacework partnered with Google Cloud in February 2022, to launch its new patented Polygraph Data Platform in Google Cloud Marketplace to strengthen multi-cloud capabilities for joint customers, including a commitment to partner on integrations with Google Cloud Security Command Center (SCC) and jointly develop features in the future. The Lacework Polygraph Data Platform delivers automated visibility and threat detection across multi-cloud environments from build time through runtime without requiring manual oversight from security teams. Following this, Lacework also announced an undisclosed investment from Google Ventures (GV).
 
 
 Lacework partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in June 2023 to incorporate its composite alerts into Amazon&rsquo;s GuardDuty threat detection service, providing AWS users with enhanced threat alerts and context for investigation.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In November 2021, the company raised USD 1.3 billion in Series D funding at a valuation of USD 8.3 billion, co-led by Sutter Hill Ventures, Altimeter Capital, D1 Capital Partners, and Tiger Global Management. The company will utilize the funds to fuel product development; pursue strategic acquisitions; accelerate go-to-market efforts; hire additional staff; and expand its global presence. Along with the funding round, the company also announced plans to go public via an IPO or a direct listing in the future.
 
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Lacework

<div>
 
 CrowdStrike offers a collection of next-generation cybersecurity products for endpoint security, cloud security, managed services, and threat analysis and response, along with professional services and consulting.
 
 
 CrowdStrike&rsquo;s endpoint security solutions include a cloud-delivered, next-generation antivirus (NGAV) that uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, and behavioral analytics to detect threats in company endpoints, replacing traditional signature-based solutions. In addition, CrowdStrike&rsquo;s endpoint offering also includes endpoint detection and response (EDR) for comprehensive monitoring, along with features to centrally control external device use. CrowdStrike&rsquo;s protection is delivered to the endpoint through a lightweight agent, which the company claims to be easily deployable and takes up only a minor share of the endpoint&rsquo;s processing power. The agent has the ability to identify malicious behavior even when the endpoint is offline. The company&rsquo;s cloud security offering includes tools for enterprises to detect threats and identify vulnerabilities during development and runtime of cloud-native applications. In addition, CrowdStrike also offers managed services, including technologies and human resources for companies to detect threats and respond to security incidents.
 
 
 In April 2023, 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17659">
 the company announced &ldquo;Falcon Insight for IoT&rdquo;
 </a>
 , an EDR and extended detection response (XDR) solution for extended internet of things (XIoT) assets, expanding the protection capabilities of Crowdstrike Falcon to operational technology.&nbsp;
 
 
 CrowdStrike launched a 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18980">
 generative AI assistant, &ldquo;Charlotte AI&rdquo;
 </a>
 , for its Falcon platform in late May 2023. The AI allows security teams to ask natural language questions on cybersecurity status, threats, and vulnerabilities, and surfaces actionable insights from Crowdstrike Falcon.
 
 
 CrowdStrike has undertaken various acquisitions to strengthen its product offerings. The company acquired the cloud data logging company Humio for USD 400 million in February 2021 to bring in the capabilities required to offer an extended detection and response (XDR) platform. The company acquired the data security startup 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/6341">
 SecureCircle
 </a>
 in November 2021 to extend zero trust security to data on endpoints by integrating SecureCircle&rsquo;s technology into its Core Falcon platform. This will provide users with data usage policy enforcement and data access management based on their zero trust score and ensure that clients can detect and respond to threats at the device, user identity, and data layer. CrowdStrike acquired the Israel-based external attack surface management (EASM) startup 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13200">
 Reposify
 </a>
 in September 2022. Reposify scans the internet infrastructure of an organization to detect and eliminate any risks arising from exposed assets that are centralized or remote across on-premise, cloud, etc. Reposify leverages its proprietary algorithm and a large database of internet-facing assets to provide organizations with a comprehensive view of their external attack surface with a click of a button. Other acquisitions include the identity protection company Preempt Security for USD 96 million in September 2020, and malware analysis company Payload Security for an undisclosed amount in 2017.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 CrowdStrike expanded its footprint in Australia in July 2021 by partnering with local cybersecurity company Solista to assist Australian organizations in developing a toolset and framework in assessing their zero trust readiness, while detecting and remediating internal and external threats. 
 
 
 CrowdStrike 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9177">
 partnered
 </a>
 with the cloud network security platform, 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1102212">
 Adaptive Shield
 </a>
 in March 2022, to launch the latter&rsquo;s zero-trust SaaS security posture management solution in CrowdStrike Store and enable security teams to identify and remediate risks stemming from misconfigurations and misappropriated privileges through device posture visibility and continuous risk assessment across the SaaS stack. 
 
 
 In April 2022, CrowdStrike 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9660">
 partnered
 </a>
 with Mandiant to help joint customers with breach investigation and response and defense. As part of the partnership, CrowdStrike's cloud-based Falcon threat intelligence platform was integrated with Mandiant&rsquo;s incident response (IR) and proactive cybersecurity consulting services. 
 
 
 In September 2022, CrowdStrike 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13203">
 partnered
 </a>
 with the pure-play cyber insurance startup 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/604136">
 Coalition
 </a>
 , to protect 160,000 cyber insurance policyholders of Coalition against cyber attacks and help them comply with key contingencies required for a cyber insurance policy. CrowdStrike provided the policyholders with a 15-day free trial to its CrowdStrike Falcon platform alongside the option to purchase a discounted Falcon bundle. During the same period, CrowdStrike 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13160">
 partnered
 </a>
 with the API security startup, 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/376753">
 Salt Security
 </a>
 , to integrate the latter&rsquo;s API discovery with its Falcon runtime protection on applications to provide a comprehensive view of an organization&rsquo;s attack surface and accelerate threat detection and response. The company also invested an undisclosed amount in Salt Security&rsquo;s Series D funding round. 
 
 
 In March 2023, CrowdStrike 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16868">
 formed a strategic alliance
 </a>
 with technology infrastructure and services provider Dell Technologies. Through the alliance, the companies planned on providing combined cyber defense solutions for organizations of all sizes to protect endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. 
 
 
 Crowdstrike partnered with Google in April 2023 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17705">
 to combat phishing campaigns
 </a>
 , leveraging its AI analytics to detect malicious links and submit them to Google&rsquo;s Risk API, allowing the firm to display browser warnings.&nbsp;
 
 
 As of October 2021, CrowdStrike had 14,687 subscribers, comprising both public and private sector organizations. Key clients include companies such as Sony, Telstra, Rackspace, Sega, and ADP.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company went public through an initial public offering in June 2019, raising USD 610 million at a valuation of USD 6.7 billion. In a subsequent fundraise in January 2021, the company raised USD 750 million through eight-year unsecured notes. CrowdStrike also launched a USD 100 million investment vehicle&mdash;Falcon Fund II in partnership with the venture capital firm Accel in January 2022, which is 5x larger than its initial investment fund Falcon Fund, and serves as a catalyst to expand CrowdStrike&rsquo;s technology partnerships with companies that will gain access to CrowdStrike Store and can benefit from CrowdStrike&rsquo;s expertise and knowledge base.
 
 
 CrowdStrike&rsquo;s total revenue for FY2023 amounted to USD 2.24 billion and adjusted operating profit was USD 355.6 million, both up 54% and 81.2% YoY, respectively. Management guidance for revenue for FY2024 stands in the range of USD 2,955.1 million and USD 3,014.8 million, which implies an YoY growth of 31.9% to 34.6%, respectively.
 
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CrowdStrike

Companies that provide platforms and technologies to protect enterprise data and infrastructure in the cloud from internal and external threats.

Companies that provide next-generation solutions for enterprises to protect endpoint devices such as computers, mobile devices, servers, and other connected enterprise devices.

Companies that provide solutions to protect industrial internet of things (IIoT) and operational technology (OT) devices.

Companies that provide AI-based tools to monitor an organization’s entire infrastructure to identify threats, provide tools for incident investigations, and help automate remediation tasks.

Companies that support businesses with AI-based cybersecurity platforms and human resources for 24/7 threat monitoring and response.

Companies that offer solutions for the protection of enterprise APIs and web applications against external threats such as scripting, bots, denial of service attacks, skimming, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) harvesting, etc.

Companies which provide solutions for enterprises to secure their cloud-native applications and workloads, across the entire development lifecycle.

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Protects IoT and connected devices from cyberattacks

Uses AI/ML and behavioral analysis to proactively detect threats and/or automate response

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