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NetScreen Technologies

Cybersecurity · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 1997 · IPO 2001 Unicorn

A leader of networking and security solutions in the Cloud + AI + 5G era

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

Investors

13 investors on NetScreen Technologies's cap table

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

Series A 13 investors entered at this stage
GE Capital
Capital Guardian Funds
Silicon Valley Partners
Scudder Technology Fund
Ericsson
Redpoint
MCI
Spectrum Equity
Sequoia
Smallcap World Fund
Technology Associates
NEA
Juniper Networks

NetScreen Technologies mafia

Startups founded by NetScreen Technologies alumni

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

Palo Alto NetworksEst. 2005
NZNir ZukUnited States
Signal score96
StackGuardianEst. 2022
KDKarl DriesenBelgium
Signal score84
FortinetEst. 2000
Ken XieUnited States
Signal score83
Stellar Cyber Inc.Est. 2015
Changming LiuUnited States
Signal score76
SapientAIEst. 2023
Shrikant LatkarUnited States
Signal score70
AppaegisEst. 2019
YCYonghui ChengUnited States
Signal score70
KognosEst. 2017
RNRakesh NairUnited States
Signal score65
vArmourEst. 2011
RLRoger LianUnited States
Signal score62
Env0Est. 2018
Ohad MaislishUnited States
Signal score61
TwistlockEst. 2015
YMYuming MaoUnited States
Signal score61
Niara, Inc.Est. 2013
SRSriram RamachandranUnited States
Signal score60
InfinyOnEst. 2019
A.J. HunyadyUnited States
Signal score56

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Global footprint

Where NetScreen Technologies has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.5% of workforce is AI talent
(46 of 9,551 staff)
Core AI130.14%
Other AI330.35%
Non-AI workforce9,50599.52%
Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · Sunnyvale HQ
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Web traffic by country
910K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States24.5%
🇮🇳 India14.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.5%
🇯🇵 Japan3.4%
🇨🇳 China2.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Capital deployed

NetScreen Technologies's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where NetScreen Technologies appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2004–2022. 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

3 deals across NetScreen Technologies's capital deployment.

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

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        NetScreen Technologies'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
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about NetScreen Technologies

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about NetScreen Technologies 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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