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Splunk

Splunk

Splunk is a San Francisco-based company that produces software for data analysis.

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Established in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Splunk analyzes machine data to offer Operational Intelligence for security, IT, and businesses. Splunk is a Data-to-Everything Platform designed to link data and action. The company assists IT, DevOps, and security teams by offering data from different sources and timescales. Splunk's key customers include Intel, Comcast, Coca-Cola, Arlo, Yelp, TransUnion, and others.

Solutions
Security

The company offers Security Analytics/SIEM that uses pre-built frameworks, workflows, and dashboards to gain visibility into user's data whenever security decisions need to be made. Automation and Orchestration

facilitate the user's security operations center (SOC) with orchestration, automation, and response capabilities. Intelligence Management automates the orchestration and integration of intelligence across different stages of security operations. Investigation and Forensics analyzes and confirms high-priority events to determine root cause and impact. Security Incident Response helps users gain contextual awareness of threat activity, and respond with automated workflows, and Unified Security Operations helps to detect and remediate threats.

IT

The company offers an IT management solution for event management to reduce alert noise and focus on priority events, incident response to route alerts to recommended responders, predictive analytics to predict and prevent service interruptions, cloud monitoring to streamline monitoring across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, server and VM monitoring to find and troubleshoot server problems, as well as cloud migration.

DevOps

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring allows users to monitor and troubleshoot across infrastructure—physical, virtual, or in the cloud in real time. They can connect the health and performance of infrastructure with application and logs in context. The Splunk APM solution offers real-time tracing that allows users to analyze trace data. Log Observer enables Splunk logging to SREs, DevOps engineers and developers that need troubleshooting-oriented logging experience. The company's digital experience monitoring solutions as well as Splunk APM provide end-to-end visibility across user transactions.

Timeline

June 22, 2021
Splunk raises a $1,000,000,000 venture round from Silver Lake Partners.
August 22, 2019
Splunk Acquires SignalFx For $1.05B.

The deal comes just two months after SignalFx raised a $75 million Series E that was led by Tiger Global Management and included participation from General Catalyst, CRV and Andreessen Horowitz.

August 21, 2019
Splunk announces that it has acquired SignalFx for a total price of about $1.05 billion.

September 1, 2007
Splunk raises a $25,000,000 series C round from August Capital, Ignition Partners, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.
2006
Splunk was founded by Erik Swan, Michael Baum and Rob Das.
January 1, 2006
Splunk raises a $10,000,000 series B round from JK&B Capital.
December 1, 2004
Splunk raises a $5,000,000 series A round from August Capital.

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Company attributes

Industry
Software
Software
Business intelligence (BI)
Business intelligence (BI)
Software as a service (SaaS)
Software as a service (SaaS)
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
Cloud computing
Cloud computing
ModelOps
ModelOps
Security automation
Security automation
Network security
Network security
...
Location
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
United States
B2X
B2B
B2B
CEO
Douglas Merritt
Douglas Merritt
Shweta Vohra
Shweta Vohra
Founder
Michael Baum (entrepreneur)
Michael Baum (entrepreneur)
Erik Swan
Erik Swan
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Rob Das
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles.../43139-26
Legal Name
Splunk Inc.
Subsidiary
Flowmill
Flowmill
VictorOps Inc.
VictorOps Inc.
Legal classification
Public company
Public company
Corporation
Corporation
Date Incorporated
2006
Number of Employees (Ranges)
5,000 – 9,999
Number of Employees
7,000
Full Address
270 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107 United States
CIK Number
1,353,283
Investors
Sevin Rosen Funds
Sevin Rosen Funds
JK&B Capital
JK&B Capital
August Capital
August Capital
Ignition Partners
Ignition Partners
TCV
TCV
Silver Lake Partners
Silver Lake Partners
Hellman & Friedman
Hellman & Friedman
DUNS Number
199472668
IRS Number
861,106,510
Founded Date
2004
Email Address
info@splunk.com
Phone Number
+14158488400
+14158488450
Total Funding Amount (USD)
1,040,000,000
Latest Funding Round Date
June 22, 2021
Competitors
Elastic
Elastic
Alloy (software company)
Alloy (software company)
Lightlytics
Lightlytics
ScienceLogic
ScienceLogic
Datadog
Datadog
LogRhythm
LogRhythm
IBM
IBM
...
Business Model
Subscription (with freemium option)
Stock Symbol
SPLK
Exchange
Nasdaq
Nasdaq
Glassdoor ID
117313
Board of Directors
Graham Smith
Graham Smith
Gary Steele
Gary Steele
CFO
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Jason Child
Key People
Graham Smith
Graham Smith
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R. Bice
Latest Funding Type
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Series C round
NAICS Code
511,210
CAGE Code
4KQU0
Patents Assigned (Count)
1,012
Wellfound ID
splunk

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Headquarters
San Francisco
San Francisco
SIC Code
7,372
Wikidata ID
Q1835753
Company Operating Status
Active
Country
United States
United States
Strategic Partnerships
Hancom MDS
Hancom MDS
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RTI
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