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 Jan 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

Jan 10, 2023

Secondary Signals

1 signal
M&A Recent $3.35B acquisition price 2026-01-29

Palo Alto Networks completed $3.35B acquisition of Chronosphere on Jan 29, 2026.

Exit event; secondary shares converted at PANW deal terms; pricing now settled.

Funding

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

Total raised $369.4M across 4 rounds

Last updated 06-25-2026

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

Valuation Trajectory

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

$1B $2B 2022 2023 Chronosphere

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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