Expanse

San Francisco, CA Cybersecurity Acquired

Expanse (formerly Qadium) is a US cybersecurity company that built an internet collection and attribution platform to continuously discover, monitor, and map an organization's global internet-exposed and untracked assets - the external attack surface. Founded in 2012 in San Francisco by Tim Junio, Matt Kraning, Shaun Maguire and Joseph Meyerowitz, the company emerged from work the founders did at DARPA and built a customer base spanning Fortune 500 enterprises (CVS/Aetna, PayPal, Capital One, Allergan, Hudson's Bay) and US federal agencies including the Departments of Defense, Energy, and State, as well as the US Army, Navy and Air Force. Expanse was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in December 2020 for approximately $800M (roughly $670M cash and stock plus ~$130M in replacement equity awards) and its technology became the foundation of Cortex Xpanse, Palo Alto Networks' attack surface management product line.

Acquired

Expanse has been acquired

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks December 21, 2020 ~$800M

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

2012

Employees

201–500

Total Funding

$136M

4 rounds

Funding

Total raised $136M across 4 rounds

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

Last updated 05-19-2026

Latest Round

Type

Series C

Date

April 9, 2019

Amount

$70M

Valuation

Lead Investors

TPG Growth
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
April 9, 2019 Series C $70M TPG Growth
August 31, 2017 Series B $40M IVP
June 2016 Series A $20M NEA

Leadership

  • Tim Junio

    Co-Founder & CEO

  • Matt Kraning

    Co-Founder & CTO

  • Shaun Maguire

    Co-Founder

  • Joseph Meyerowitz

    Co-Founder

Competitors

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

  • Censys

    Internet-wide scanning and attack surface management platform spun out of University of Michigan research; direct competitor in external attack surface discovery and asset attribution.

  • Randori

    Attack surface management and continuous automated red-team platform; acquired by IBM in 2022. Competed with Expanse in external attack surface discovery.

  • RiskIQ

    External threat intelligence and attack surface management vendor that mapped internet-facing assets; acquired by Microsoft in 2021.

  • BitSight

    Security ratings and external risk monitoring platform that scores organizations based on externally observable security posture.

  • CyCognito

    External attack surface management platform that discovers shadow IT and exposed assets across cloud, subsidiary and partner environments.

  • SecurityScorecard

    Security ratings vendor providing external visibility and continuous monitoring of an organization's third-party and internet-facing risk.

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