Netskope：获融$340M 云安全

【200207 Techcrunch】Netskope has always focused its particular flavor of security on the cloud, and as more workloads have moved there, it has certainly worked in its favor. Today the company announced a $340 million investment on a valuation of nearly $3 billion.

【谷歌翻译 未经校对】Netskope始终将其特殊的安全风格集中在云上，并且随着越来越多的工作负载迁移到云上，它肯定会对其有利。今天，该公司宣布投资3.4亿美元，估值接近30亿美元。

Sequoia Capital Global Equities led the round, but in a round this large, there were a bunch of others participating firms including new investors Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and PSP Investments, along with existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Base Partners, ICONIQ Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Geodesic Capital and Social Capital. Today's investment brings the total raised to over $740 million, according to Crunchbase data.

红杉资本全球股票领投，但在这一轮中，还有很多其他参与公司，包括新投资者加拿大退休金计划投资委员会和PSP投资，以及现有投资者Lightspeed Venture Partners，Accel，Base Partners和ICONIQ Capital ，蓝宝石风险投资公司，大地测量资本和社会资本。根据Crunchbase的数据，今天的投资使募集的资金总额超过了7.4亿美元。

As with so many large rounds recently, CEO Sanjay Beri said the company wasn't necessarily looking for more capital, but when brand name investors came knocking, they decided to act. "We did not necessarily need this level of capital but having a large balance sheet and a legendary set of investors like Sequoia, Lightspeed and Accel putting all their chips behind Netskope for the long term to dominate the largest market in security is a very strong signal to the industry," Beri said.

与最近的大型融资一样，首席执行官Sanjay Beri表示，该公司不一定要寻求更多的资本，但是当名牌投资者来敲门时，他们决定采取行动。 “我们不一定需要这一水平的资金，但拥有庞大的资产负债表以及像红杉，光速和Accel这样的传奇投资者，长期将他们所有的芯片都放在Netskope的后面，即可统治最大的安全市场，这是一个非常强烈的信号。业界。”贝里说。

From the start, Netskope has taken aim at cloud and mobile security, eschewing the traditional perimeter security that was still popular when the company launched in 2012. "Legacy products based on traditional notions of perimeter security have gone obsolete and inhibit the needs of digital businesses. Today’s urgent requirement is security that is fast, delivered from the cloud, and provides real-time protection against network and data threats when cloud services, websites, and private apps are being accessed from anywhere, anytime, on any device," he explained.

从一开始，Netskope便着眼于云和移动安全，放弃了公司在2012年成立时仍然流行的传统外围安全措施。“基于传统外围安全概念的传统产品已经过时，抑制了数字业务的需求当今迫切的需求是从云提供的快速安全性，当从任何地方，任何时间，在任何设备上访问云服务，网站和私有应用程序时，提供实时保护以抵御网络和数据威胁。” 。

When Netskope announced its $168.7 million round at the end of 2018, the company had a valuation over $1 billion at that time. Today, it announced it has almost tripled that number with a valuation close to $3 billion. That's a big leap in just two years, but it reports 80% year-over-year growth, and claims to be "the fastest-growing company at scale in the fastest-growing areas of cybersecurity: secure access server edge (SASE) and cloud security," according to Beri.

当Netskope在2018年底宣布其1.687亿美元的融资时，该公司当时的估值超过10亿美元。今天，它宣布它的估值几乎翻了三倍，估值接近30亿美元。在短短两年内，这是一个巨大的飞跃，但是它报告了同比80％的增长，并且声称自己是“在网络安全增长最快的领域中规模增长最快的公司：安全访问服务器边缘（SASE）和云安全”。

The next natural step for a company at this stage of maturity would be to look to become a public company, but Beri wasn't ready to commit to one just yet. "An IPO is definitely a possible milestone in the journey, but it’s certainly not limited to that and we’re not in a rush and have no capital needs, so we’re not commenting on timing."

在这个成熟阶段，公司的下一个自然步骤是寻求成为一家上市公司，但是Beri尚未准备好致力于一家公司。 “首次公开募股绝对是征途中的一个里程碑，但当然不仅限于此，我们也不急于而且也没有资金需求，因此我们不评论时机。”

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