M&A Deal Summary

CrowdStrike Acquires Payload Security UG

On October 15, 2017, CrowdStrike acquired information technology company Payload Security UG for 8M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is CrowdStrike’s 1st transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is CrowdStrike’s 5th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is CrowdStrike’s 1st transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2017-10-15
Target Payload Security UG
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) CrowdStrike
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 8M USD

Target

Payload Security UG

Rossdorf, Germany
Payload Security UG is a cybersecurity company with an automated malware analysis product.

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Buyer

CrowdStrike

Austin, Texas, United States

Category Company
Founded 2011
Sector Information Technology
Employees10,118
Revenue 4.0B USD (2025)
DESCRIPTION

CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity company with an endpoint protection platform built from the ground up to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform’s single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints on or off the network. CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 11
Sector: Information Technology M&A 1 of 9
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 11
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2017 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 5 of 5
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-09-23 Preempt Security

San Francisco, California, United States

Preempt Security, Inc. is a provider of Zero Trust and conditional access technology for real-time access control and threat prevention. Preempt Security, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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