Chronosphere

Seattle, WA Software & Cloud Acquired

Chronosphere is a cloud-native observability platform purpose-built for Kubernetes and microservices, enabling engineering teams to manage high-volume data while controlling costs. Founded by ex-Uber engineers Martin Mao and Rob Skillington who previously built M3 at Uber, the company provides real-time visibility into applications, infrastructure, and AI systems.

Acquired

Chronosphere has been acquired

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks January 29, 2026 $3.35B

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2019

Employees

292–314

Total Funding

$369.4M

4 rounds

Latest Valuation

$1.6B

January 10, 2023

Funding

Total raised $369.4M across 4 rounds

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Last updated 06-25-2026

Latest Round

Type

Series C (Extension)

Date

January 10, 2023

Amount

$115M

Valuation

$1.6B

Lead Investors

GVGeodesic Capital
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
January 10, 2023 Series C (Extension) $115M $1.6B GV, Geodesic Capital
October 7, 2021 Series C $200M $1B General Atlantic
January 5, 2021 Series B $43.4M Greylock, Lux Capital, Addition

Funding by Round

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Valuation Trajectory

Valuation indexed to 1.0× at the selected entry round. Valuation marks are estimates and may contain errors. Hover each dot to compare.

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Entry · Series C

$1B

Oct 2021

Chronosphere today

$1.6B

Jan 2023 · latest mark

Chronosphere multiple

1.6x

valuation uplift since first round

Y-axis is logarithmic. Hollow dots = estimated valuations. Does not represent realized investor returns.

Leadership

  • Martin Mao

    Co-Founder & CEO

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  • Rob Skillington

    Co-Founder & CTO

    LinkedIn
  • Jeff Cobb

    Global Head of Product & Design

    LinkedIn
  • Margaret Dawson

    Global Head of Marketing

  • Seong Park

    Global Head of Customer Success and Solution Engineering

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

  • Datadog

    SaaS monitoring and security platform providing visibility across cloud infrastructure, applications, and logs

  • New Relic

    Observability platform providing APM, infrastructure monitoring, and log analytics

  • Elastic

    Search and analytics platform for logs, metrics, APM, and security

  • Splunk

    Data platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine data and logs

  • Grafana Labs

    Open source observability platform combining metrics, logs, and traces with Prometheus and Loki

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