Salvatore Sferlazza | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | SUNY Albany |
| Occupation | CEO at NinjaOne |
| Notable work | Lasso Logic, NinjaOne, PacketTrap |
Sal Sferlazza is the co-founder and CEO of NinjaOne. [1] [2] He is also the co-founder of several previous companies including Lasso Logic, PacketTrap, Anchor Networks, Boostingo and Realm Interactive. [3]
Sferlazza graduated from the State University of New York at Albany in 1996 and while attending school he worked for his uncle in New York City as an IT consultant. [4] [5] After receiving his degree he went to work at Accenture as a software consultant before deciding to become a founder. [4] [6]
In 2001, Sferlazza founded Realm Interactive, the first of four startups sold, with current NinjaOne President, Chris Matarese. [4] [5] They were working on a game called Exarch, a follow up to the popular game Trade Wars when the company was sold in 2004 to NCSoft. [5] [7] Sal had hired Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira to do the artwork and the game was later released as Dungeon Runners. [8] [4] [9]
In 2005, he co-founded Lasso Logic, a company that pioneered continuous data protection and redundant off-site data backups. [10] The firm was sold to SonicWall in 2005 for approximately $20 million and became known as their Business Continuity Unit. [4] [11]
In 2006, Sferlazza co-founded the IT network management company PacketTrap, with Steve Goodman and raised a $5M from August Capital in a series A financing round. [12] They sold the company to Quest Software which was also bought out by Dell in 2009. [4] [6]
After PacketTraps, Sferlazza founded cloud managed service provider Anchor Networks which, was sold to EFolder in 2013. [13] [8]
In 2013, Sferlazza and Matarese started NinjaRMM, originally based out of San Francisco, the company would rebrand as NinjaOne and relocate to Austin, Texas in 2021. [14] [15] [16] NinjaOne raised a $30M round from Summit Partners and a $231M round valuing the company at $1.9 billion, led by ICONIQ in 2024. [17] [18] [19]
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