Fortinet

IPO

Fortinet is a cybersecurity company in Sunnyvale, United States, founded in 2000. It has 2 recorded funding rounds, most recently a Series D in August 2003.

The cybersecurity platform for the AI era

Employees
10001+
Founded
2000
Business Model
B2B
Last Round
Series DAug 2003
Rounds
2
Type
Public

Indexed holds 2 funding rounds and 3 investors for this company. The full record is or through the API.

About

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is an American publicly traded cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2000 by brothers Ken Xie and Michael Xie. The company develops and sells its Security Fabric platform — an integrated suite of network security products including the FortiGate next-generation firewall, FortiSIEM, FortiEDR endpoint detection, FortiClient, FortiSwitch, and FortiAP wireless access points. Fortinet uses proprietary application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology to deliver high-performance security at scale. The company went public on NASDAQ in November 2009, and as of 2024 generates approximately $5.96 billion in annual revenue with 14,138 employees worldwide. Fortinet serves enterprises, service providers, and government entities across network security, cloud security, SD-WAN, and OT/IoT security segments, and founded the Cyber Threat Alliance alongside Palo Alto Networks.

Summary

It lists 10001+ employees. Its most recent funding was a Series D round in Aug 2003. Investors include Redpoint Ventures, DEFTA Partners and Meritech Capital Partners.

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Funding & Exit History

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IPONov 2009
$156.3M

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Funding: Series A through Series D. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

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