Cato Networks

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Cato Networks
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer networking
Founded2015;9 years ago (2015)
Founders Shlomo Kramer
Gur Shatz
Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel
Key people
Shlomo Kramer, CEO
Gur Shatz, President and COO [1]
ProductsSecure Access Service Edge
Number of employees
500 (February 2022) [2] [3]
Website www.catonetworks.com

Cato Networks is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based network security company that develops Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technology, which combines enterprise communication and security capabilities into a single cloud-based platform. [1] The company was founded in 2015. [4] After an October 2021 funding round, the company was a tech unicorn valued at $2.5 billion. [5]

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History

Cato Networks was founded in 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel by Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Checkpoint and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, a co-founder of networking company Incapsula. [4] [6] Cato was initially funded with a $20 million Series A from U.S. Venture Partners and Aspect Ventures. [7] Kramer became CEO, and Shatz became president and COO. [1] It secured a Series B round of $50 million in September. [1]

The company officially launched in February 2016. [8] Its first products were designed to protect customers' WAN connections and mobile devices with services including next-generation firewalling, URL filtering, application control and VPN access. [7]

In June 2018, the company added threat hunting capabilities to its networking service. [9]

In 2019, the company secured a $55 million Series C funding round. [10]

In April 2020, the company raised $77 million in a Series D. [1] In November, the company announced a $130 million Series E funding round, led by return investors Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Greylock Partners, U.S. Venture Partners, Aspect Capital, Singaporean fund Singtel's subsidiary Innov8, and hedge fund Coatue Management. [11] The investment reportedly valued the company at over $1 billion, making it a tech unicorn. [11]

In June 2021, the company launched a new version of its managed detection and response (MDR) platform, used to detect security threats on its network. [12] In October, the company announced it had raised $200 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. [10] The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with the participation of existing investors Greylock, Acrew Capital, Coatue, Singtel Innov8, and CEO Kramer. [10]

In February 2022, the company added cloud access security broker (CASB) capabilities to protect cloud applications. [13] Also in February, the company announced it was planning on going public within the next two years. [2] Cato reached $100 million ARR since their founding. This made them one of the fastest growing enterprise network security startup. [14]

Products

Cato Networks develops a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform, which combines SD-WAN, managed security service and global backbone services into a cloud-based service offering. [15] Its products are designed to help IT staff manage network security for distributed workforces accessing resources across the wide area networks (WANs), cloud and Internet that connects them. [15] [16] The company's Cato SASE Cloud platform supports more than 73 points of presence in over 150 countries. [2] The company's managed detection and response (MDR) platform combines machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) models to process network traffic data and identify threats to its customers. [12] The company also offers cloud access security broker (CASB) capabilities to protect cloud applications. [13]

Operations

The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of February 2022, the company reported over 1,100 customers which it served from 73 points-of-presence worldwide. [2] Also as of February 2022, the company reported 500 employees. [2]

Shlomo Kramer is the company's CEO, and Gur Shatz is its president and COO. [1]

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