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NetScreen Technologies

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

ASIC-based firewall and VPN security appliances.

Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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
Technology Associates
NEA
GE Capital
Redpoint
Silicon Valley Partners
Scudder Technology Fund
Spectrum Equity
MCI
Sequoia
Capital Guardian Funds
Juniper Networks
Ericsson
Smallcap World Fund

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
Nir ZukUnited States
Signal score97
FortinetEst. 2000
Michael XieUnited States
Signal score81
StackGuardianEst. 2022
KDKarl DriesenBelgium
Signal score80
SapientAIEst. 2023
Shrikant LatkarUnited States
Signal score68
Aerohive NetworksEst. 2006
Changming LiuUnited States
Signal score68
AppaegisEst. 2019
YCYonghui ChengUnited States
Signal score67
KognosEst. 2017
RNRakesh NairUnited States
Signal score64
vArmourEst. 2011
RLRoger LianUnited States
Signal score63
Env0Est. 2018
Ohad MaislishUnited States
Signal score61
Niara, Inc.Est. 2013
SRSriram RamachandranUnited States
Signal score60
TwistlockEst. 2015
YMYuming MaoUnited States
Signal score59
InfinyOnEst. 2019
A.J. HunyadyUnited States
Signal score56

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Global footprint

Where NetScreen Technologies has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · Sunnyvale HQ
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Web traffic by country
930K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States26.5%
🇮🇳 India16.1%
🇻🇳 Vietnam3.1%
🇯🇵 Japan2.8%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.6%
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Talent graph

The shape of NetScreen Technologies's talent

Dealroom maps NetScreen Technologies's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

19 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
46 AI specialistsincl. 13 core researchers
9,551 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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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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