CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

About CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

All products by CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

CrowdStrikeAI Security

AI-native cybersecurity platform for endpoint, identity, and cloud protection

From $7.99/mo8.3/10

How Our Review Panel Scores CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.'s product on their own terms. They disagreed by 2.6 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.

SentinelOne8.1/10

Direct competitor in cloud-native endpoint protection (EPP/EDR/XDR), differentiating with an autonomous, agent-based AI detection engine versus CrowdStrike's cloud-analytics-heavy Falcon architecture.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Palo Alto Networks8.2/10

Broader enterprise security platform (network, cloud, SOC/XSIAM) that competes with Falcon primarily in endpoint and XDR, bundled as part of a wider security suite rather than a pure-play EDR offering.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Wiz8.3/10

Focused on cloud infrastructure security posture management (CSPM/CNAPP) rather than endpoint protection, overlapping with CrowdStrike's cloud security modules like Falcon Cloud Security.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Darktrace7.8/10

Uses self-learning network AI for anomaly detection across network/email/cloud rather than an endpoint-agent-first approach, targeting detection and response with less reliance on threat intelligence feeds.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Vectra AI7.9/10

Specializes in network detection and response (NDR) using AI-driven attack signal intelligence, complementing rather than directly replicating Falcon's endpoint-centric model, but competes for SOC detection budget.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Microsoft Defender7.8/10

Bundled endpoint and XDR protection within Microsoft 365/Azure licensing, competing on price and native OS integration rather than as a standalone best-of-breed platform like Falcon.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.'s history, with sources.

1. Aug 27, 2025Acquisition

   Agreed to acquire Onum for a reported $290M

   CrowdStrike announced it agreed to acquire Onum, a Spanish real-time telemetry pipeline startup, to feed data directly into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM; CrowdStrike did not disclose deal terms but the price was reported at approximately $290 million.

   finance.yahoo.com
2. Nov 6, 2024Acquisition

   Agreed to acquire Adaptive Shield, reported ~$300M deal

   CrowdStrike announced at Fal.Con Europe that it agreed to acquire Adaptive Shield, a SaaS security posture management vendor, to unify cloud and identity security; CrowdStrike did not disclose financial terms, which press reports estimated at roughly $300 million.

   securityweek.com
3. Jul 19, 2024Milestone

   Faulty Falcon content update triggered global Windows outage

   A defective Channel File 291 content configuration update for the Falcon sensor caused a logic error that crashed Windows hosts worldwide between 04:09 and 05:27 UTC, disrupting airlines, banks, healthcare and other services; CrowdStrike reverted the update and published a post-incident report.

   crowdstrike.com
4. Mar 26, 2024Acquisition

   Acquired Flow Security for $96.4M in cash

   CrowdStrike completed its acquisition of 100% of Israeli cloud data security startup Flow Security, adding Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) to the Falcon platform; total consideration was $96.4 million in cash plus $0.5 million in replacement equity awards, per CrowdStrike SEC filings.

   sec.gov
5. Feb 18, 2021Acquisition

   Acquired Humio for approximately $400M

   CrowdStrike announced the acquisition of Humio, a cloud log management and observability platform, for approximately $400 million paid predominantly in cash plus rollover equity, to expand XDR data ingestion capabilities.

   crowdstrike.com
6. Jun 11, 2019Milestone

   IPO priced at $34/share, raised $612M on Nasdaq

   CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. priced its initial public offering of 18,000,000 Class A shares at $34.00 per share, raising $612 million; shares began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker CRWD the next day.

   crowdstrike.com
7. Jun 19, 2018Funding

   Series E — $200M led by General Atlantic, Accel and IVP

   CrowdStrike closed a $200 million-plus Series E financing round co-led by General Atlantic, Accel and IVP, with participation from March Capital and CapitalG, pushing its valuation above $3 billion.

   crowdstrike.com
8. May 17, 2017Funding

   Series D — $100M led by Accel

   CrowdStrike closed a $100 million Series D financing round led by existing investor Accel, with CapitalG (formerly Google Capital) and Warburg Pincus participating alongside new investors March Capital Partners and Telstra, bringing total funding to $256 million at a valuation over $1 billion.

   crowdstrike.com
9. Jul 13, 2015Funding

   Series C — $100M led by Google Capital

   CrowdStrike closed a $100 million Series C financing round led by Google Capital (later renamed CapitalG), with new investor Rackspace and existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus participating, bringing total funding raised to $156 million.

   crowdstrike.com
10. November 2011Founded

    CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. incorporated in Delaware

    George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston founded CrowdStrike; per CrowdStrike SEC filings, CrowdStrike, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in August 2011 and CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in November 2011 as part of a corporate restructuring.

    sec.gov