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Investment Summary

Eight Roads Invests In Threat Stack

On September 19, 2017, private equity firm Eight Roads invested in internet software and services company Threat Stack

Investment Highlights
  • This is Eight Roads’ 37th transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Eight Roads’ 75th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Eight Roads’ 26th transaction in Massachusetts.
Investment Fate
  • Threat Stack was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2021 for 68M USD.

Investment Summary
Date 2017-09-19
Target Threat Stack
Sector Internet Software and Services
Investor(s) Eight Roads
Deal Type Venture

Target

Threat Stack

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Threat Stack is involved in providing cloud security and compliance for infrastructure and applications, helping companies securely leverage the business benefits of the cloud with proactive risk identification and real-time threat detection across cloud workloads. The Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform delivers full-stack security observability across the cloud management console, host, container, orchestration, managed containers, and serverless layers. It provides the flexibility to consume telemetry within existing security workflows or manages it with clients through the Threat Stack Cloud SecOps Program to respond to security incidents and improve the organization’s cloud security posture over time. Threat Stack was founded in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Eight Roads

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1969
PE ASSETS 11.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Eight Roads is a private investment firm focused on a variety of investment opportunities across the US, Europe, and Asia. The Firm is divided into several investment strategies including venture, principal investing, and real estate. Within the principal investments group, Eight Roads backs established growth businesses with long-term capital. Eight Roads does not have any sector preferences, but has experience in fintech, business services, and healthcare. Eight Roads is based in London.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 165 of 293
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 37 of 60
Type: Venture M&A Deals 144 of 266
State: Massachusetts M&A 26 of 33
Country: United States M&A 75 of 119
Year: 2017 M&A 30 of 38
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