I hope all is well and that you and your family, friends, and teams are healthy and safe.
One of the core things that drives Netskopers is making a positive impact in the world. From protecting the largest healthcare companies in the world, to protecting the largest financial organizations, as they enable new ways of flexible working but are under constant attack as people try to steal their (i.e. your!) data, to powering the security of the largest e-commerce, manufacturing, and retail environments, to protecting midsize businesses, which are the lifeblood of many economies, and grappling with the new cyberwar climate… and so much more. It gives us all such great pride (and warms our hearts) that this team—Team Netskope—is making such an impact in the world today. And as every month and year goes by, that impact gets bigger and bigger.
Amidst that backdrop, we feel very fortunate to announce a new, oversubscribed round of investment at a valuation of $7.5 billion, led by our existing investor ICONIQ Capital and including participation from all our other major existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Base Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Geodesic Capital. This is something we are of course very proud to achieve, having not yet been in existence even a full decade. But I wanted to