Darktrace Holdings

IT Security/CybersecuritySeries ECambridge, UKdarktrace.com

Latest round

Series E

Last raised

Oct 2018

Total raised

$158M

Investors

8

About Darktrace Holdings

Founded in 2013 by Dave Palmer, Emily Orton, Jack Stockdale, Nicole Eagan and Poppy Gustafsson and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Darktrace Holdings Limited (Darktrace) offers solutions for organizations to protect their assets in the face of rising cyber-threats by applying artificial intelligence to cyber defense. The company’s technology is deployed by financial institutions, universities, museums, educational foundations, the government and defense sector, technology and telecommunication firms and the legal sector among others. The company’s Darktrace Immune System technology is used by 4700 companies to protect their digital environment, ranging from cloud and SaaS applications to IoT devices and endpoints, industrial control systems, corporate networks and asset management systems. As of 2020, the company employs over 1500 professionals across 44 offices serving over 4700 customers from 40 offices across 100 countries.4 billion. The company’s product includes technologies that provide unsupervised machine learning to detect cyber threats. The company’s technologies provide security coverage with firewalls and various SIEMs and SOARs across major cloud services such as Microsoft 365, Zoom, Slack and Okta among others. The company offers the Darktrace Immune System platform, powered by Cyber AI self-learning technology with an open architecture to plug into a diverse ecosystem. Darktrace offers self-learning detection technology such as enterprise immune systems and industrial immune systems. Darktrace also offers automatic investigation technology such as Cyber AI Analyst that investigates breached in Darktrace, detects and illuminates suspicious activity. Additionally, the company provides autonomous response technology such as antigena networks and antigena SaaS that helps the organization to calculate and contain in-progress cyber-attacks. The company also provides cloud security, email security through antigena email and threat visualizers that help users in comprehending security incidents, metadata and event logs for investigation. The company earns revenue when organizations deploy the entire Darktrace cybersecurity platform across the entire digital business either in the cloud or in an on-premise appliance. Darktrace acquires customers through POV (Proof-of-Vision) by offering a three-week trial of the company’s products.5% of its revenue through subscription contracts and the rest, through non-subscription contracts. The company plans to enter new geographies and sectors with its cyber AI platform. Subsequently, the company plans to increase its headcount especially in the research and development center in Cambridge, UK.

Who invested in Darktrace Holdings

8 investors across 4 rounds

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Funding rounds

  1. Series E

    Oct 4, 2018

    Amount

    $50M

    Investors

    Locked

  2. Series D

    Jul 11, 2017

    Amount

    $75M

    Investors

    Locked

  3. Series B

    Jul 14, 2015

    Amount

    $23M

    Investors

    Locked

  4. Series A

    Feb 27, 2015

    Amount

    $10M

    Investors

    Locked

Questions about Darktrace Holdings

Who invested in Darktrace Holdings?

Darktrace Holdings has 8 investors on record across 4 venture rounds. Sign up free to see every VC on the cap table and the rounds they joined.

How much funding has Darktrace Holdings raised?

Darktrace Holdings has raised 4 venture rounds. Sign up free to see how much each round raised and the total.

When did Darktrace Holdings last raise money?

Darktrace Holdings's most recent round on record is a Series E, in Oct 2018.

What does Darktrace Holdings do?

Founded in 2013 by Dave Palmer, Emily Orton, Jack Stockdale, Nicole Eagan and Poppy Gustafsson and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Darktrace Holdings Limited (Darktrace) offers solutions for organizations to protect their assets in the face of rising cyber-threats by applying artificial intelligence to cyber defense.

Where is Darktrace Holdings headquartered?

Darktrace Holdings is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.

Which VCs invest in companies like Darktrace Holdings?

Among active investors with capital left to deploy, Index Ventures, Forbion, European Investment Bank and Generation Investment Management back it security/cybersecurity companies at Darktrace Holdings's stage. Their profiles are linked below.

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