Guardicore - About the company
Guardicore is an acquired company based in Tel Aviv (Israel), founded in 2013. It operates as a Cloud workloads security solutions provider. Guardicore has raised $138M in funding from investors like Battery Ventures, TPG and Qumra Capital. The company has 364 active competitors, including 89 funded and 58 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Cisco, HashiCorp and Forescout.
Company Details
GuardiCore provides security solutions for software-defined data centers, bare-metal servers, detecting and neutralizing Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), malware propagation and insider attacks. The product offered by the company is Guardicore Centra which detects, analyzes and provides an automated response to attacks inside the data center. The solution is based on detection and analysis technology for monitoring, protecting east-west traffic by identifying and remediating attacks ranging from worms to Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). Platform's component, Active Honeypot responds to attack by dynamically re-routing traffic to itself and records the intention, tactics, and procedures of an attacker. Major components include distributed lightweight agent to detect, mitigate, remediate breach; analysis and inspection engine to perform deep inspection of suspicious activity and centralized management for reporting, alerting, UI based administration integration with ticketing, existing security management tools. Supports integration with VMware ESX, NSX, OpenStack, CloudStack, native KVM and Xenserver hypervisors, containerized and bare-metal servers, hybrid and public clouds, and physical networks.
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Key Metrics
Founded Year
2013
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel
Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$138M in 5 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
38th among 364 active competitors
Employee Count
59 as on Jul 31, 2026
Exit Details
Acquired by Akamai (Sep 29, 2021)
Guardicore's acquisition details
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Guardicore's funding and investors
Guardicore has raised a total funding of $138M over 5 rounds. Its first funding round was on Aug 18, 2014. Guardicore has 12 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Guardicore:
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Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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May 28, 2025 | 7505597 | Series C | 5732008 | 3141688 | 4236917 | 8408400 |
May 21, 2019 | 8394998 | Series C | 9354465 | 6334466 | 1300381 | |
Aug 01, 2017 | 7527469 | Series B | 5912887 | 3853893 |
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Guardicore's founders and board of directors
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Guardicore has 59 employees as of Jul 26. Here is Guardicore's employee count trend over the years:
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Guardicore's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Guardicore include Cisco, HashiCorp and Forescout. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Guardicore, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Cisco 1984, San Jose (United States), Public | Provider of AI infrastructure, secure networking, and software solutions | $2.5M | 83/100 | |
2nd | HashiCorp 2012, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | AI based cloud infrastructure management solutions | $349M | 76/100 | |
3rd | Forescout 2000, San Jose (United States), Acquired | Provider of cybersecurity solutions for continuous threat exposure management and mitigation | $120M | 75/100 | |
4th | Orca Security 2019, Portland (United States), Series C | Platform offering cloud security solutions for businesses | $640M | 71/100 | |
5th | A10 Networks 2004, United States, Public | Provider of application delivery, security, and centralized management and analytics solutions | $118M | 70/100 | |
6th | Trend Micro 1988, Irving (United States), Public | Provider of cloud security solutions | - | 66/100 | |
7th | Cyber risk and vulnerability assessment solutions provider | $49M | 66/100 | ||
8th | Exaforce 2023, San Jose (United States), Series B | Provider of an agentic security operations platform with AI capabilities | $263M | 65/100 | |
9th | Aujas 2008, Cupertino (United States), Acquired | Platform for security analytics and risk assessment | $18.9M | 64/100 | |
10th | Upwind 2022, San Francisco (United States), Series B | Provider of cloud security solutions for infrastructure and application protection | $430M | 64/100 | |
38th | Guardicore 2013, Tel Aviv (Israel), Acquired | Cloud workloads security solutions provider | $138M | 48/100 |
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Guardicore's Investments and acquisitions
Guardicore has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Guardicore
Here is the latest report on Guardicore's sector:
News related to Guardicore
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Akamai buys security startup and former unicorn for $450MThe Business Journals•May 07, 2024•Akamai, Linode, Guardicore, Noname Security
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Akamai Technologies to acquire Guardicore for about $600 millionTele Net•Oct 01, 2021•Akamai, Guardicore
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Guardicore Collaborates with Amdocs to Elevate Globe Telecom’s Cloud SecurityBusiness Wire•Sep 27, 2021•Guardicore, Amdocs
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Guardicore Infection Monkey Provides Zero Trust Assessment of AWS EnvironmentsBusiness Wire•Apr 14, 2021•Guardicore, Amazon Web Services
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Guardicore Enforces Microsegmentation on the Industry’s Broadest Array of Legacy PlatformsBusiness Wire•Apr 07, 2021•Guardicore
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Guardicore Unveils IPCDump, a New Open Source Tool for Tracing Interprocess Communication on LinuxBusiness Wire•Feb 10, 2021•Guardicore
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