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KnowBe4
IT security company, provides cloud based security awareness training and simulated phishing platforms to manage problems of social engineering
At a glance
- Founded
- 2010
- Headquarters
- Clearwater, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- Edtech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning KnowBe4.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
- ELElephant
Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage
- TVTenEleven Ventures
KKR- MPMarch Capital Partners
Goldman Sachs
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former KnowBe4 employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Dane FioriUnited States
Shunxing Sean Xie, PhDUnited States
Santhosh PurathepparambilUnited States
Alex EckelberryAustraliaGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
89 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 KnowBe4 was the 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.
7 deals across KnowBe4's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about KnowBe4 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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