Corelight Secures $75 Million Series D

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Corelight&comma; provider of the industry&&num;8217&semi;s first open network detection and response &lpar;NDR&rpar; platform&comma; has raised &dollar;75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners &lpar;EIP&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Previous investors Accel&comma; General Catalyst&comma; Insight Partners and Osage University Partners also joined the round&comma; as well as new investor H&period;I&period;G&period; Growth Partners&comma; and strategic investment from Capital One Ventures&comma; CrowdStrike Falcon Fund&comma; and Gaingels&period; Corelight has raised a total of &dollar;160 million to date&comma; with this latest round fueling acceleration of both global market presence and development of new data and cloud offerings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Corelight is the fastest growing NDR platform&comma; serving defenders in some of the world&&num;8217&semi;s largest financial institutions&comma; retail and healthcare organizations&comma; critical infrastructure providers and government agencies&period; Building on more than 20 years of open source development and community-driven insight&comma; Corelight provides security teams with the world&&num;8217&semi;s best network evidence so they can close investigations quickly&comma; even when incidents go back years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This latest investment is a powerful affirmation not only of the network detection and response category&comma; but also of our open source heritage&comma; data-centric approach&comma; and commitment to customer success&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Brian Dye&comma; CEO of Corelight&period; &&num;8220&semi;I am grateful for our investors&&num;8217&semi; partnership as we help organizations around the world move to a data-driven security strategy&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lead investor EIP is a global investment platform backed by a large coalition of forward-looking utilities and industrial partners and focused on investing in cybersecurity&comma; digital transformation&comma; utility infrastructure and the broader energy transition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;EIP&&num;8217&semi;s focus on critical infrastructure providers is highly aligned with both our mission and market traction&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Dye&period; &&num;8220&semi;Helping these institutions defend against increasingly sophisticated attackers is essential given their role in society and the economy&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Corelight&&num;8217&semi;s strong NDR technology&comma; rooted in open source&comma; has had a significant impact across industries and is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for sophisticated defenders&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Shawn Cherian&comma; partner at EIP&period; &&num;8220&semi;We look forward to supporting them as they expand their existing footprint within the sustainable energy&comma; manufacturing and other critical infrastructure sectors&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;