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F5

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Application delivery, networking, and security solutions

Seattle, United StatesFounded 1996Cybersecurity
Valuation $22B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $3.38B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $1.28B Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
1996
Headquarters
Seattle, United States
Listing
IPO 1999
Sector
Cybersecurity
Power Law
Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom

Investors

2 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A2 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 6,207 incl. 34 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 13 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former F5 employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

ExaforceEst. 2023
Devesh MittalUnited States
Signal score96
OtonomoEst. 2015
Ben VolkowIsrael
Signal score96
NeuBirdEst. 2023
Vinod JayaramanUnited States
Signal score94
Cerebras SystemsEst. 2015
Michael JamesUnited States
Signal score94
CognichipEst. 2024
SSSimon SabatoUnited States
Signal score92
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · Seattle HQ
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Web traffic by country
1M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States20.1%
🇮🇳 India10.6%
🇮🇩 Indonesia4.7%
🇯🇵 Japan3.6%
🇸🇮 Slovenia2.7%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$67M

348 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where F5 was the backer or acquirer, 2007–2025. 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.

Portfolio analysis

12 deals across F5's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Where F5 deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

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        F5's portfolio, mapped.

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        Period
        12 of 12 deals

        Market sentiment

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        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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