CrowdStrike Inc., an Irvine, CA-based provider of an endpoint protection platform, completed a $100m Series C financing round.
The round was led by Google Capital with participation from Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) and existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus.
The company, which has raised $156m in total, intends to use the funds to further accelerate its domestic and international expansion.
Led by George Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer, CrowdStrike enables organizations to detect, prevent and respond to attacks, at any stage – even malware-free intrusions by offering Software-as-a Service (SaaS) based endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and pre and post incident response services. CrowdStrike Falcon’s patented lightweight endpoint sensor can be deployed to over 100,000 endpoints in hours providing visibility into billions of events in real-time.
Customers include credit card payment processors, large banks, oil and gas as well as technology companies.
FinSMEs
13/07/2015