Panther

San Francisco, CA Cybersecurity Acquired

Panther is a cloud-native SIEM and AI SOC platform built on a security data lake. It offers detection-as-code, real-time threat detection and response at petabyte scale, and more than 100 out-of-the-box integrations across cloud, identity and SaaS systems. Founded in 2018 by Jack Naglieri, creator of Airbnb's StreamAlert, Panther acquired security telemetry pipeline company Datable in October 2025. Databricks agreed to buy Panther in June 2026 and completed the acquisition in August 2026, folding it into the Databricks security lakehouse platform.

Acquired

Panther has been acquired

Acquired by Datable Oct 15, 2025

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

2018

Employees

201–500

Total Funding

$140.38M

3 rounds

Latest Valuation

$1.4B

Dec 2, 2021

Secondary Signals (Note: SetterVC does not verify the accuracy of these)

1 signal
M&A Recent Undisclosed 2026-08-03

Databricks completed its acquisition of Panther on August 3, 2026; terms undisclosed. Panther joins the Databricks security lakehouse platform.

Panther is no longer independent; the 2021 $1.4B Series B mark stands as its final private valuation.

Funding

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

Total raised $140.38M across 3 rounds

Last updated 09-03-2026

DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
Dec 2, 2021 Series B Press release $120M $1.4B Coatue Management
Sep 2020 Series A Press release $15M — Lightspeed Venture Partners
Oct 3, 2019 Seed $5.38M — S28 Capital, Innovation Endeavors

Leadership

  • Jack Naglieri

    Founder & CEO

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  • John McCarthy

    Chief Revenue Officer

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  • Julian Giuca

    Chief Product Officer

  • William Lowe

    Chief Operating Officer

Competitors

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

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  • Elastic

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  • CrowdStrike

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  • Hunters

    Cloud-native security detection and response platform built on modern data lake architecture

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