Rising Endpoint Security Star SentinelOne Raises $267M

‘The past eight months have been an inflection point in our business across the globe,’ says SentinelOne COO Nicholas Warner. The company’s valuation has tripled since February to $3 billion.

SentinelOne secured its second massive funding round of 2020 and notched a valuation of more than $3 billion as the company looks to keep accelerating its hypergrowth.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based endpoint security upstart said its $267 million Series F round was led by Tiger Global Management and will allow SentinelOne to fulfill surging market demand for its Singularity XDR Platform. The latest funding comes just nine months after SentinelOne completed a $200 million Series E round and 17 months after closing a $120 million Series D round, both led by Insight Partners.

“The past eight months have been an inflection point in our business across the globe,” SentinelOne Chief Operating Officer Nicholas Warner said in a statement. “Our ease of deployment and autonomous remediation has made us the go-to solution to replace other next-gen products at scale.”

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SentinelOne said it’s the first cybersecurity vendor to expand from cloud-native endpoint protection to a full detection and response platform that protects and monitors every asset in the enterprise. The company said its behavioral AI models have allowed for the seamless unification of endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, IoT control, and container and cloud-native workload protection.

The company said its valuation has tripled from just $1.1 billion in February to more than $3 billion today. SentinelOne said its Series F round was “significantly oversubscribed” and included participation from Sequoia Capital Global Equities as well as existing investors Insight Partners and Third Point Ventures.

“Cloud, container, and IoT technologies are empowering today’s distributed workforce,” SentinelOne co-founder and CEO Tomer Weingarten said in a statement. “A cohesive view of the entire enterprise network and a real-time autonomous security layer across all connected assets is required to protect people, businesses and their data, wherever they are.”

SentinelOne said it has enjoyed 130 percent year-over-year revenue growth in Fortune 500 accounts and serves four of the Fortune 10. The company said 77 percent of its customers subscribe to multiple SentinelOne platform modules and that it has a 74 percent deal win rate in the last 12 months and has achieved an enterprise net retention rate of 125 percent.

“After leading SentinelOne’s Series A financing over six years ago, Tiger Global is excited to further deepen our partnership with Tomer and SentinelOne’s world-class team by leading this round as the company prepares for its next chapter,” Tiger Global Partner John Curtius said in a statement. “It is a unique point in time in the company’s journey, and the future looks bright.”

Chief Marketing Officer Daniel Bernard told CRN in February that SentinelOne was looking to keep its net customer retention rate above 100 percent by increasing spend from existing customers on a year-over-year basis. This would require getting them to move beyond SentinelOne’s core offering and embrace some of the company’s new capabilities, Bernard said at the time.

Bernard said in February that SentinelOne would be in a good position to launch an initial public offering after delivering another four to eight quarters of momentum and growth. At the time, Bernard didn’t anticipate that SentinelOne would need to raise any more money prior to filing for an IPO.