SentinelOne, Inc. is an American
cybersecurity
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company listed on
NYSE
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based in
Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, it has a population of 82,376.
Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the ...
.
The company was founded in 2013 by Tomer Weingarten, Almog Cohen and Ehud ("Udi") Shamir.
Weingarten acts as the company's CEO.
Nicholas Warner is the company's COO.
The company has approximately 970 employees and offices in Mountain View,
Boston
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,
Tokyo
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, and
Berlin
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.
The company uses
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.
Machine ...
for monitoring
personal computer
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s,
IoT
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devices, and cloud workloads.
The company's platform utilizes a
heuristic
A heuristic (; ), or heuristic technique, is any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, or rational, but is nevertheless sufficient for reaching an immediate, ...
model, specifically its patented behavioral
AI.
The company is
AV-TEST
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Ever ...
certified.
Funding
In June 2019, SentinelOne received $120 million in a Series D funding round led by
Insight Partners
Insight Partners (previously Insight Venture Partners) is an American venture capital and private equity firm based in New York City. The firm invests in growth-stage technology, software and Internet businesses.
History
Insight Partners was fo ...
.
The company received an addition $200 million in Series E funding in February 2020.
The Series E round placed SentinelOne at a valuation of about $1.1 billion.
In 2020, SentinelOne closed a round for $267 million in funding, bringing their total valuation to $3.1 billion.
On June 30, 2021, SentinelOne completed an initial public offering on the
NYSE
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, raising $1.2 billion.
Acquisitions
In February 2021, SentinelOne announced the acquisition of cloud-scale data analytics platform
Scalyr
Dataset Inc, formerly known as Scalyr, Inc. is a server log monitoring tools provider based in San Mateo, California. It was incorporated in 2011 and was founded by Steve Newman, the former chief engineer and founder of Writely, whose technology ...
for $155 million in cash and equity.
In March 2022, SentinelOne announced the acquisition of the identity detection and response technology company, Attivo Networks, for $616.5 million in cash and equity.
Sponsorships
Since 2021, SentinelOne has been the official cybersecurity sponsor of
Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team.
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Software companies established in 2011
Computer security companies
Companies based in Mountain View, California
American companies established in 2013
2013 establishments in California
2021 initial public offerings
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Software companies of the United States