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Fortinet
Provider of network security appliances that include firewalls, security gateways, and complementary products
At a glance
- Founded
- 2000
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2009
- Sector
- Cybersecurity
- Power Law
- Centicorn$100B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Fortinet.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage
Redpoint- PVPresidio Ventures
- DPDEFTA Partners
Industry Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Fortinet employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
ANAviz NetworksEst. 2019
RARetell AIEst. 2023
Todd LiUnited States
Shivaprasad EregowdaIndia
Matthew SweeneyUnited States
Freddy MangumUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
872 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 Fortinet was the backer or acquirer, 2008–2025. 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.
24 deals across Fortinet's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Fortinet 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.
Fortinet'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 Fortinet 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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