Corelight / PRNewswire · Jul 2026
Corelight appointed Amanda Berger chief customer officer to lead customer success and expansion as the company scales its AI-SOC platform.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Corelight is a privately held, open-core cybersecurity company that turns network and cloud activity into high-fidelity evidence for threat detection, investigation, threat hunting, and AI-assisted SOC workflows. It was incorporated in 2016 by the creators of Zeek and serves large enterprises, government agencies, and research universities in more than 15 countries. [Corelight About; Corelight newsroom]
Primary product
Corelight Open NDR Platform: an evidence-first Network Detection and Response platform built around Zeek and Suricata, with cloud/software/virtual/physical sensors, network detection, investigation, threat hunting, packet capture, encrypted-traffic analytics, machine learning, scalable search, and Agentic AI capabilities.
Founded
2016
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States (548 Market St, PMB 77799, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401)
Team size
201–500; third-party estimates range approximately 300–420
Work style
Remote
26 jobs at Corelight
Industry
Computer and network security / cybersecurity
Sub-industry
Network Detection and Response (NDR), network security monitoring, threat hunting, security analytics
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series E / late-stage private company
Total raised
$309.2M
Latest round
Series E · Apr 2024
Latest amount
$150M
Apr 2024 · Accel
Dec 2021
Sep 2021 · Energy Impact Partners
Oct 2019 · Insight Partners
Sep 2018 · General Catalyst
Jul 2017 · Accel
Dec 2015 · National Science Foundation
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Robin Sommer
Co-Founder
Amanda Berger
Chief Customer Officer
Steve Smoot
Chief Technology Officer
Russ Keefe
Chief Financial Officer
Bernard Brantley
Chief Information Security Officer
Vice President, Product / VP Product Management
Strategist and Author in Residence
Founders
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Co-Founder
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Seth Hall
Co-Founder
Corelight describes a distributed, remote-first culture centered on “Low ego results,” “Applied curiosity,” and “Tireless service,” with emphasis on diversity of background and thought, collaboration, open-source community, cyber defense, volunteering, ERGs, and sustainable employee fulfillment.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public job and benefits material confirms equity may be offered and some sales roles use commission/variable compensation; third-party compensation reporting describes competitive base pay and benefits but variable-pay reliability and pay alignment as potential concerns. Role-specific salary bands and a company-wide compensation table were not found.
Benefits
Pricing
Enterprise quote-based pricing; public list pricing was not found. Commercial packaging spans hosted/cloud services, software and virtual sensors, physical appliances, platform capabilities, support, and services.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $70M–$100M annually based on third-party estimates ($76.7M and $98.2M figures); not company-reported or audited.
Estimated monthly visits
49.7K
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