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Qualys
The Qualys Cloud Platform and integrated suite of solutions helps businesses simplify security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance
At a glance
- Status
- Listed
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2012
- Sector
- Cybersecurity
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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 later3 investors entered at this stage
- AVABS Ventures
Upfront Ventures- TCTrident Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Qualys employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
FIFieldPulseEst. 2015
Alex PinchevUnited States
ZAZest AIEst. 2009
Asif AwanUnited States
CUCushionEst. 2017
Paul KesserwaniUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
20 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 Qualys was the backer or acquirer, 2018–2021. 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.
3 deals across Qualys's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Qualys 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.
Qualys's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Qualys 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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