Arctic Wolf Networks

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Arctic Wolf Networks
Company type Private
Industry Cybersecurity
Founded2012
FoundersBrian NeSmith
Kim Tremblay
Sam McLane
Matthew Thurston
Headquarters Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
Key people
Brian NeSmith, Co-founder & Executive Chairman
Nick Schneider, President & CEO
Duston Williams, CFO
Dan Larson, CMO
ServicesSecurity Analytics, Vulnerability Management
Managed Detection and Response
Number of employees
2,000
Website arcticwolf.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Arctic Wolf Networks is a cybersecurity company that provides security monitoring to detect and respond to cyber threats. [2] The company monitors on-premises computers, networks and cloud-based information assets from malicious activity such as cybercrime, ransomware, and malicious software attacks.

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History

Founded in 2012, Arctic Wolf focused on providing managed security services to small and mid-market organizations. [3] The company was listed as a Gartner Cool Vendor in security for mid-sized enterprises in June 2018.

Acquisitions

In December 2018, Arctic Wolf announced the acquisition of the company RootSecure, and subsequently turned the RootSecure product offering into a vulnerability management service. [4]

On February 1, 2022, Arctic Wolf acquired Tetra Defense. [5] [6] [7]

In October 2023, Arctic Wolf acquired Revelstoke, a cybersecurity company. [8] [9]

Funding

In March 2020, following a $60M D Round of funding, the company announced moving its headquarters from Sunnyvale, California to Eden Prairie, Minnesota in October 2020. [10]

In October 2020, Arctic Wolf announced a $200M E Round of funding at a valuation of 1.3B$. [11]

On July 19, 2021, Arctic Wolf secured $150M at Series F, tripling its valuation to $4.3B. [12] [13]

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