Huntress Labs

“10 Years of Wrecking Hackers”

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• Founded: 2015
• Founders: Chris Bisnett, John Ferrell, Kyle Hanslovan
• Industry: Cybersecurity, SaaS
• Location: Columbia, Maryland

Unicron Stats

• Status Date: 2024
• Valuation: $2B
• Latest Funding: $150M, Series D
• Notable Investors:
  • Sapphire Ventures
  • Kleiner Perkins
  • Meritech Capital Partners
  • Blu Venture Investors

About

Protect Your Endpoints, Identities, Logs, and Employees. The fully managed security platform that combines endpoint detection and response, Microsoft 365 identity protection, a predictably affordable SIEM and science-based security awareness training. Powered by custom-built enterprise technology for mid-market enterprises, small businesses, and the MSPs that support them and delivered by unrivaled industry analysts in our 24/7 Security Operations Center. By delivering a suite of purpose-built solutions that meet budget, security, and peace-of-mind requirements, Huntress is how the globe’s most underresourced businesses defend against today’s cyberthreats.

As long as hackers keep hacking, we keep hunting.

Mission and Values: “The Huntress Difference”

• Ethical Badasses: From accounts payable to product development, our people are exceptional. We work for our community, and for all the right reasons.
• Purpose-built Solutions: We’ve designed our own solutions from the ground up to make enterprise-level protection accessible to everyone.
• Cybersecurity for all, not just the 1%: We give back more than we take to keep the community safe, not just our customers.

About Founders

Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) Cyber Operators and backed by security researchers, Huntress Labs is a cybersecurity platform built to protect businesses against cyberthreats. 

In 2015, Kyle Hanslovan, was beginning to find his work as a hacker with the NSA tedious. The future co-founder and CEO began to day dream about a technology that could pinpoint malware – a concept rooted in his offensive security expertise.

That same year, Chris Bisnett, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, was growing bored of his work as a NSA contractor. For co-founder ??John Ferrell, his passion was in Computer Network Operations (CNO) development and Linux systems engineering.

The three men were desperate for a new thrill and decided to launch into the unknowns of the startup world together. They envisioned how to turn Hanslovan’s idea into a tangible solution for cybersecurity threats, but on a massive scale. Hanslovan also saw a need for security solutions that cater to smaller businesses and their budgets. Suddenly, they had a market and a product – Huntress Labs was born.

The beginnings of startup life were tough times, requiring bootstrapping and part-time jobs. It took nearly a year to secure the company’s first three customers, followed by numerous funding opportunities falling through. After toying with the idea of selling Huntress for $31 million, they chose to tough it out. 

A year later, they went from $1.5 million to $5 million Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Today, Huntress has raised over $300M in funding with a valuation of nearly $2 billion – all while bringing a little more equity to the cybersecurity space.

Future of cybersecurity, Huntress VP Andrew Kaiser:

“We’re not going to win this alone by just being Huntress. [...] We’re going to win this by the industry getting together and realizing that there are too many businesses for us to protect that don’t have the resources to do this themselves. The only way we’re going to do that is if we continue to collaborate and kind of play outside of those competitive lines that maybe were a little bit more looked at a bunch of years ago.”

– A Decade of Huntress: Lessons Learned and Innovations Ahead, by Jordan Smith, Channel Insider