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KnowBe4

Edtech · Clearwater, United States · Founded 2010 · IPO 2021 Unicorn

IT security company, provides cloud based security awareness training and simulated phishing platforms to manage problems of social engineering

Valuation

$5.23B

Market cap · 2026

Revenue

$360M

Latest reported FY

Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

5 investors on KnowBe4's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 1 investor entered at this stage

Elephant

Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage

March Capital Partners

KKR

Goldman Sachs

TenEleven Ventures

KnowBe4 mafia

Startups founded by KnowBe4 alumni

Former KnowBe4 employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

AgentAIEst. 2023

Sean XieUnited States

Signal score84

PrevasioEst. 2020

Alex EckelberryAustralia

Signal score57

GuardareEst. 2024

Lars LetonoffUnited States

Signal score49

Discern SecurityEst. 2023

Santhosh PurathepparambilUnited States

Signal score48

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Global footprint

Where KnowBe4 has talent and traffic

AI talent share

0.6% of workforce is AI talent
(15 of 2,458 staff)

Core AI10.04%

Other AI140.57%

Non-AI workforce2,44399.39%

Workforce by country

17 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States63.3%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom11.4%

🇳🇱 Netherlands6.4%

🇮🇳 India3.8%

🇸🇬 Singapore3.1%

Top 5 of 17 shown

Web traffic by country

3.6M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States58.6%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.3%

🇮🇳 India3.6%

🇯🇵 Japan3.1%

🇨🇦 Canada2.8%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$44M patent portfolio · 76 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$44M

0.84% of market cap · 25.5× smaller than top peer Nicira Networks ($1.1B)

76 active patent families

Where KnowBe4 innovates PhishingData scienceSecurity awarenessData miningElectronic mail

Where KnowBe4 concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across KnowBe4 and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

KnowBe4's 7 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where KnowBe4 appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2017–2024. 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

7 deals across KnowBe4's capital deployment.

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

By sectorCount

By stageCount

By periodCount

01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

Where KnowBe4 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.

Compare against

02 · Portfolio market map

KnowBe4'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”.

Stage

Period

7 of 7 deals

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about KnowBe4

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about KnowBe4 on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

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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