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Today, we announced an additional $340 million investment, led by new world renowned investor Sequoia Capital Global Equities. New investors CPP Investment Board and PSP Investments participated, as well as all of our existing investors – Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Base Partners, Geodesic Capital, Iconiq Capital, Sapphire Ventures, and Social Capital. It humbles and thrills our entire team and myself to think that Netskope, the fastest-growing security company, has now achieved a valuation of nearly $3 billion.
When we started Netskope in 2012, it was becoming clear that the cloud was changing everything, but few envisioned how it would disrupt security. We understood, however, that in the app-driven, mobile world that the cloud was enabling, the traditional, perimeter-focused notion of security would be rendered obsolete.
What was urgently needed was a new kind of cloud-driven architecture that could provide real-time protection against network and data threats in the modern digital enterprise where cloud services, websites, private apps, data lakes, and much more are being accessed from anywhere, anytime, on any device.
It was simply no longer an option for companies to try to get by with legacy defenses poorly equipped to deal with cloud-based attacks. We knew we could help them. It’s because of our customers — we now serve 25 percent of the Fortune 100 — that we’re so delighted to have built Netskope into the market leader.
We’ve established the Netskope Security Cloud Platform as the new gold standard in cloud security platforms, with 80 percent year-over-year growth in enterprise customers, and Netskope as the fastest-growing company in the fastest-growing areas of cybersecurity – secure access service edge (SASE) and cloud security.
We’ve worked hard to expand the breadth of our offerings and the long-term vision of our company by adding a range of next-generation technologies. Those include Netskope NewEdge, the globally distributed network that enables the Netskope cloud-native security platform to deliver real-time security without compromising performance; the industry’s only seamless integration and inline cloud-native Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solution; and the release of Netskope for Private Access, a cloud-based service for secure access to private enterprise applications in both the public cloud and the data center.
Netskope also has opened 26 new high-performance data centers just in the past nine months across the world to provide a globally distributed set of network, compute, and storage for all customers who use Netskope products. Built by the teams that built the world’s largest a