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Carbon Black
Endpoint and server security
At a glance
- Founded
- 2002
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2018
- Sector
- Cybersecurity
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Carbon Black.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later9 investors entered at this stage
- EPEvolution Equity Partners
Blackstone
Kleiner Perkins- PAParamount
Accomplice- .V.406 Ventures
Sequoia- FCFounders Circle Capital
- PCPaul Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Carbon Black employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
RSRealm SecurityEst. 2024
Pete MartinUnited States
Gidi CohenUnited States
CRCroglEst. 2023
OSObsidian SecurityEst. 2017
Ben JohnsonUnited States
ATArmored ThingsEst. 2016
Chris LordUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
17 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Carbon Black was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2016. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across Carbon Black's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Carbon Black's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Carbon Black on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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