# Stairwell

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/stairwell

- Industry: IT Security/Cybersecurity
- Headquarters: Mountain View, US
- Website: www.stairwell.com
- Total disclosed funding: $70M
- Latest round: Series B (Oct 11, 2022)
- Investors on record: 7

## About

Based in Palo Alto, CA, US, and founded in 2019, Stairwell, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that's on a mission to empower any team to defend against every attacker. The company believes in forging a future in which any security team, regardless of size, sophistication, or resources, can be empowered to defend against every attacker. The team behind Stairwell, Inc., including security leaders and engineers from Google and Mandiant, is singularly focused on making that future a reality. Security is currently practiced as a linear process, but ideally, it is circular, continuous, and should always be building on itself. And, it should always start by looking at what’s most important to an organization, which is their own internal data. Good security starts with a deep understanding of the assets, software, and files inside your environment.

At Stairwell, Inc., they think it’s time to turn security inside out, to leave the world of passive alerts behind, and to step into a new era of proactive awareness. According to the team, the techniques that allow you to search the entire internet in a fraction of a second should be applied to the cumbersome process of searching and analyzing massive file stores for potential threats. At Stairwell, Inc., they apply leading principles from web-scale search and social graph processing to security. Intelligence is put into action, so you can outsmart even the world’s most sophisticated attackers—and stay a step ahead.

By pre-preserving the evidence, the team removes the time-sensitive nature of threat intelligence, detecting past intrusions and anticipating future attacks. Applies new learnings to the past, present, and future states of your environment.

## Funding rounds

- Series B, Oct 11, 2022, $45M — Accel, Hong Shan, Lux Capital, Section 32, Gradient Ventures
- Series A, Sep 21, 2021, $20M — Accel, Hong Shan, Allen & Company, Gradient Ventures
- Seed, Oct 28, 2020, $4.5M — Accel, Hong Shan, Allen & Company, Gradient Ventures
- Seed, Feb 11, 2020 — Acequia Capital

## Investors

- Acequia Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/acequia-capital) — Seed
- Accel (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/accel) — Seed, Series A, Series B
- Hong Shan — Seed, Series A, Series B
- Allen & Company — Seed, Series A
- Gradient Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/gradient-ventures) — Seed, Series A, Series B
- Lux Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/lux-capital) — Series B
- Section 32 (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/section-32) — Series B