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Palo Alto Networks
Global cybersecurity company delivering a unified platform of network, cloud and endpoint protection
At a glance
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2012
- Sector
- Cybersecurity
- Power Law
- Centicorn$100B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Palo Alto Networks.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later6 investors entered at this stage
- JIJapan Asia Investment
Intel Capital- IVIcon Ventures
- GPGlobespan Capital Partners
- LBLehman Brothers
- NCNorthgate Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Palo Alto Networks employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
CNCato NetworksEst. 2015
Shlomo KramerIsrael
ARArtemisEst. 2025
Shachar HirshbergUnited States
RORoxEst. 2024
Avanika NarayanUnited States
Skyler OnkenUnited States
RARapidFortEst. 2020Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
792 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 Palo Alto Networks was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2026. 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.
25 deals across Palo Alto Networks's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Palo Alto Networks 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.
Palo Alto Networks'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 Palo Alto Networks 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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