Splunk Inc

Splunk Inc. NASDAQ: SPLK NASDAQ-100 component Founded October 2003 Founders: Michael Baum Rob Das Erik Swan Headquarters San Francisco, California, U.S. Key people Graham Smith (Chairman of the Board) Doug Merritt (President & CEO) Products Splunk Enterprise Splunk Light Splunk Cloud Revenue Increase US$ 2.358 billion (FY 2020) Operating income Increase US$ -287 million (FY 2020) Net income Increase US$ -336 million (FY 2020) Total assets Increase US$ 5.4 billion (FY 2020) Total equity Increase US$ 1.99 billion (FY 2020) Number of employees ~6000 (FY JAN. 31, 2020) Website splunk.com Footnotes / references [1] Splunk at AWS Summit Splunk Inc. is an American public multinational corporation based in San Francisco,[2] California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data via a Web-style interface.[3] Splunk (the product) captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.[4][5] Splunk makes machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns,[6] providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.[3] As of early 2016, Splunk had over 10,000 customers.[7] Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 Splunkbase 4 Motorsport 5 References 6 External links History Michael Baum, Rob Das[8] and Erik Swan co-founded Splunk Inc in 2003.[9] Venture firms August Capital, Sevin Rosen, Ignition Partners and JK&B Capital backed the company. By 2007 Splunk had raised US$40 million;[10] it became profitable in 2009.[11] In 2012 Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol SPLK.[12][13] In September 2013 the company acquired Bugsense, a mobile-device data-analytics company.[14] Bugsense provides "a mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve app performance and improve quality". It supplied a "software developer kit" to give developers access to data analytics from mobile devices that it managed from its scalable cloud platform.[15] The acquisition amount was undisclosed. In July 2015 Splunk acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for US$190 million.[16] In October 2015 Splunk sealed a "cybersecurity alliance" with U.S. government security contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. to offer combined cyberthreat detection and intelligence-analysis technology.[17] In 2016, Splunk pledged to donate $100 million in software and support for nonprofits and schools over a 10-year period.[18] According to Glassdoor, it was the fourth highest-paying company for employees in the United States in April 2017.[19] In October 2017, Splunk acquired certain technology and intellectual property assets from smaller rival Rocana.[20] On April 9, 2018 Splunk acquired Phantom Cyber Corporation for approximately US$350 million.[21] On April 2018, it reached US$14.8 billion of market capitalization.[13] On June 11, 2018 Splunk announced its acquisition of VictorOps, a DevOps incident management startup, for US$120 million.[22] In July, 2018 Splunk acquired KryptonCloud, an industrial IoT and analytics SaaS company.[23] On May 2019, Splunk worked for 90 companies included in the Fortune 100 list.[2] Splunk announced the acquisition of cloud monitoring company SignalFx on August 21, 2019 for $1.05B.[24] Two weeks later on September 4, 2019, Splunk acquired Omnition—an early-stage startup specializing in distributed tracing—for an undisclosed amount.[25]