Shift5 - About the company
Shift5 is a series C company based in Arlington (United States), founded in 2018 by Michael Weigand. It operates as a Platform for intrusion detection and prevention. Shift5 has raised $180M in funding from investors like Insight Partners, Booz Allen Hamilton and 645 Ventures. The company has 172 active competitors, including 48 funded and 12 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Eclypsium, Outpost24 and Claroty.
Company Details
Platform for intrusion detection and prevention. The platform offers data recorder to collect, enrich, store and transmit embedded data for real-time incident response, and analytics, Shift5 Engine which prevents and detect intrusion by leveraging rule based and model based analytics and Shift Guage Cluster which provides a solution to conduct incident response and preventive maintenance.
- Website
- shift5.io
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@shift5.io
- Registered Address
- 1100 Wilson Blvd, Ste 2100 Rosslyn, VA 22209
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2018
Location
Arlington, United States
Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$180M in 5 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
4th among 172 active competitors
Employee Count
148 as on Jun 30, 2026
Legal entities associated with Shift5
Shift5 is associated with 1 legal entity given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
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SHIFT5, INC CIN: 842692461 , United States, Active | Jun 23, 2019 | - | 93 (As on Dec 31, 2024) | - |
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Shift5's funding and investors
Shift5 has raised a total funding of $180M over 5 rounds. Its first funding round was on Sep 12, 2019. Its latest funding round was a Series C round on Sep 03, 2025 for $*****. 10 investors participated in its latest round. Shift5 has 20 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Shift5:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Sep 03, 2025 | 6790474 | Series C | 2667283 | 5275989 | 5193625 | 8610095 |
Jun 08, 2023 | 7579890 | Series B | 6396244 | 7112557 | 8589776 | |
Feb 08, 2022 | 5809254 | Series B | 3712249 | 1326379 |
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Shift5's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Shift5 is Michael Weigand.
Here are the details of Shift5's key team members:
- Michael Weigand: Former Co-Founder of Shift5. Contact Info: 1 email address
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Shift5's employee count trend
Shift5 has 148 employees as of Jun 26. Here is Shift5's employee count trend over the years:
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Shift5's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Shift5 include Eclypsium, Outpost24 and Claroty. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Shift5, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Eclypsium 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series C | Provider of supply chain security platform for IT infrastructure components | $132M | 63/100 | |
2nd | Provider of cyber risk management and application security solutions and services | $23.8M | 63/100 | ||
3rd |  Claroty 2015, New York (United States), Series F | Provider of cyber-physical system security solutions for industrial and commercial sectors | $882M | 60/100 | |
4th | Shift5 2018, Arlington (United States), Series C | Platform for intrusion detection and prevention | $180M | 59/100 | |
5th | Provider of network and device security solutions for IoT applications | $2.59M | 58/100 | ||
6th | Provider of cybersecurity solutions for embedded systems and connected objects | $22.7M | 58/100 | ||
7th | Provider of a cybersecurity platform for IoT devices | $3M | 57/100 | ||
8th | Finite State 2017, Columbus (United States), Series B | Provider of a cyber threat detection and vulnerability assessment platform | $69.5M | 57/100 | |
9th |  Iothic 2017, Oxford (United Kingdom), Series A | Provider of device and network security solutions for IoT applications | $7.63M | 56/100 | |
10th | SAM Seamless Network 2016, Tel Aviv (Israel), Series B | Provider of a smart home hub for monitoring and cyber securing connected devices | $36.2M | 56/100 |
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Shift5's Investments and acquisitions
Shift5 has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Shift5
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News related to Shift5
Filter this listMedia has covered Shift5 for a total of 7 events in the last 1 year, 4 of them have been about company updates and 1 about partnerships.
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Boeing & Shift5 Partner for Mission-Speed Aircraft Fault & Cyberthreat DetectionExecutiveBiz•Jan 26, 2026•Shift5, Boeing, RTX, Stratasys and 1 other
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Shift5 Appoints L3Harris Executive Toby Magsig as President and Interim CEOPR Newswire•Jan 26, 2026•Shift5
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Shift5 Launches Advanced RF-Enabled GPS Threat Detection for distances up to 200 Nautical Miles Awayeverything RF•Jan 08, 2026•Shift5
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Shift5 Awarded Key Contract for AF's Fighter, the F-16 Fighting FalconPR Newswire•Dec 04, 2025•Shift5
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Security moves upstream as Chainguard redefines the software supply chainSiliconAngle•Mar 27, 2025•Chainguard, Plainsight, Shift5
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Cybersecurity Veteran Joe Lea Joins SecLytics as Chief Executive OfficerPR Newswire•Mar 05, 2025•Seclytics, Kivera, CloudFlare, Shift5 and 7 others
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GA-ASI, Shift5 Partner to Enhance MQ-9A Reaper Cybersecurity, ResiliencePotomacofficersclub•May 10, 2024•General Atomics Aeronautical, Shift5
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