CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company provides endpoint security, cloud workload protection, identity protection, and threat intelligence services, primarily delivered through its cloud-native Falcon platform.

Falcon is a single-agent architecture that consolidates multiple security functions including next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), managed threat hunting, and IT hygiene. CrowdStrike serves a broad range of enterprise customers across financial services, healthcare, government, and technology sectors. The company gained significant public attention for its investigation into the 2016 Democratic National Committee network breach and has been involved in numerous high-profile incident response engagements.

CrowdStrike went public on the Nasdaq in June 2019 under the ticker CRWD, raising approximately $612 million in its IPO. The company has made several acquisitions to expand its platform, including Preempt Security in 2020 for approximately $96 million and Humio, a log management and observability company, in 2021 for approximately $400 million. As of fiscal year 2024, CrowdStrike reported annual recurring revenue exceeding $3.6 billion and employs more than 10,000 people globally.