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As of October 26, 2026, CrowdStrike had a market capitalization of $268.09B (companiesmarketcap.com).
CrowdStrike is a cloud-native cybersecurity company best known for its Falcon endpoint-protection platform, one of the largest pure-play security vendors by market cap.
CrowdStrike Holdings was incorporated in Delaware in August 2011.[1] Accel partner Sameer Gandhi sat on its board.[1] SGNL's continuous identity technology evaluates access in real time to stop attackers from exploiting user identities.[2] The prospectus also stated that the corporate opportunity doctrine would not apply to Accel and Warburg Pincus, leaving them free to invest in competing businesses.[1] In January 2026 it announced a $740 million deal for identity security startup SGNL.[2],[3] Less than a week later it announced plans to acquire browser security startup Seraphic Security for roughly $420 million.[4] Seraphic's technology protects against browser exploits and phishing without requiring a separate secure browser.[4]
Annual recurring revenue grew 25% to $5.84 billion.[5]
CrowdStrike is the Austin-based Falcon security platform vendor, public since June 2019, with a $20M and $100M Falcon Fund program run with Accel.
CrowdStrike Holdings sells a cybersecurity platform called Falcon. In its annual report for fiscal 2026, the company describes Falcon as built on a single lightweight sensor that collects data from endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and third-party sources, and says the platform is meant to replace legacy point products and fragmented platforms across security and IT. It calls the category it has defined the "AI Security Cloud". The company is a holding company; its operating business sits in subsidiaries including CrowdStrike, Inc., and its principal executive offices are in Austin, Texas.[1]
George Kurtz is a co-founder and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director since November 2011, according to the annual report. Before that he held executive roles at McAfee from 2004 to 2011. The same filing lists Burt Podbere as Chief Financial Officer and Michael Sentonas as President.[1]
Companiesmarketcap.com put the company's market capitalization at $268.09 billion on October 26, 2026. That is a third-party aggregator's figure and moves with the share price.[2]
For the second quarter of fiscal 2027, ended July 31, 2026, CrowdStrike reported total revenue of $1.47 billion, up 26% from $1.17 billion a year earlier, and described net new annual recurring revenue of $333 million as a record, with growth accelerating to 51% year over year.[3]
CrowdStrike runs a small venture program with Accel. The first Falcon Fund, announced in August 2019, was a $20 million early-stage vehicle for seed and Series A investments in startups building applications on the Falcon platform. In January 2022 the company launched Falcon Fund II, a $100 million vehicle with Accel focused on cross-stage private investments in cybersecurity and adjacent markets, which it described as five times the size of the first fund.[4],[5]
The company has also bought several startups. Per its fiscal 2026 annual report, it agreed on January 7, 2026 to acquire SGNL.AI, a continuous-identity company, and closed the deal on February 20, 2026 for $627.9 million in cash, net of $9.4 million of cash acquired, plus equity consideration. It closed the acquisition of Seraphic Algorithms, a browser runtime security company, on February 3, 2026 for $327.4 million in cash. In its August 2026 earnings release it said it was agreeing to acquire the technology assets of XM Cyber, a Schwarz Digits company that provides attack path visualization and offensive simulation technology; no price appears in the text we reviewed. Earlier, in August and September 2025, it announced agreements to acquire Onum (a telemetry pipeline company) and Pangea (AI prompt-layer security).[1],[3],[6],[7]
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CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company, based in Austin, Texas, USA, founded 2011 by Dmitri Alperovitch, George Kurtz.
| Date | Event | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 2026 | acquisitionRumored | ~$495M | — | TechCrunch |
Before its IPO, private equity firm Warburg Pincus was its largest outside holder with 30.2% of shares, followed by Accel at 20.2% and Alphabet's growth fund CapitalG at 11.1%.[1]
CrowdStrike is paying close to $500 million to acquire AI-security startups Fiddler AI and Dreadnode, folding both into its Falcon security platform.
CrowdStrike says a likely solo, Chinese-speaking hacker used an open-source tool alongside DeepSeek, GLM, Grok and Claude Code sessions to breach at least seven South Korean banks, exposing data on roughly 68,000 people.
CrowdStrike and Okta shares trade at premium multiples on the bet that AI-agent security spending will justify them, with the S&P Kensho cybersecurity index up 41% this year versus 11% for the S&P 500.
CrowdStrike expanded its OpenAI partnership to add runtime monitoring for Codex coding agents and route OpenAI's cyber reasoning model through Falcon, treating agent behavior as telemetry to watch, not a black box to trust.
Salesforce and CrowdStrike jumped more than 20% on AI-driven earnings beats this week, while Marvell fell 6% on a beat of its own -- proof the market is now pricing AI software monetization and AI hardware capacity on opposite curves.
George Kurtz argued that AI-driven attacks expose gaps legacy security tools were never built to cover, as CrowdStrike positions its platform against a threat model that now moves at machine speed.
CrowdStrike and Okta both surged on quarterly earnings beats and raised guidance, with executives citing accelerating AI-driven security threats as a demand driver for both companies' platforms.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz argues AI is exposing security gaps legacy tools cannot handle, a thesis carrying the stock through a comeback rally that Jim Cramer says still has room to run.
CrowdStrike posted record Q2 revenue growth of 26%, record net-new ARR of $332.8 million, and raised full-year guidance, with CEO George Kurtz attributing the surge to a 'Mythos moment' driving mass-market AI security demand.
Glow launched publicly with a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that AI agents running on employee devices need an entirely new category of endpoint protection that legacy tools like CrowdStrike and SentinelOne weren't built for.
Annual recurring revenue grew 25% to $5.84 billion.[5]
CrowdStrike's market capitalization was $268.09B as of October 26, 2026, according to companiesmarketcap.com.
Yes. CrowdStrike trades under the ticker CRWD, with a market cap of $268.09B (October 26, 2026, companiesmarketcap.com).
CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, according to Wikidata.
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