Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Cribl, Inc. is a privately held enterprise software company founded in 2018 in San Francisco by Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka. It describes itself as the “AI Platform for Telemetry,” helping IT and security teams collect, process, enrich, route, store, search, and investigate logs, metrics, traces, and other telemetry across vendors and destinations. As of 2026, Cribl reports more than 1,000 employees, over $300M ARR, and customers including approximately half of the Fortune 100.
Primary product
Cribl’s primary platform is its vendor-agnostic telemetry/data engine, centered on Cribl Stream (observability pipeline), with Cribl Edge, Search, Lake/Lakehouse, Cloud, and Guard providing collection, federated search, storage, AI-assisted investigation, and sensitive-data protection.
Founded
2018
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1,000+ employees (company-reported in 2026; older third-party company data reports approximately 900–1,000)
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development / Enterprise Software
Sub-industry
Telemetry management, observability pipelines, data infrastructure, and security operations software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage venture-backed, privately held
Total raised
$600M
Latest round
Series E · Aug 2024
Latest amount
$319M
Aug 2024 · GV (Google Ventures)
May 2022 · Tiger Global Management
Aug 2021 · Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures
Oct 2020 · Sequoia Capital
Apr 2020 · CRV
Feb 2019 · CRV
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer / Head of Product
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Market Officer and Chief Customer Officer
Chief People Officer
Chief Legal Officer
Chief Information Security Officer
Farrah Bui
SVP, Business Operations
Cribl describes a remote-first, asynchronous culture emphasizing documentation, mindfulness of time zones, high performance, customer focus, curiosity, openness, practical problem-solving, and “Excel Together.” It brings employees together periodically rather than requiring routine office attendance.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
The company publicly advertises competitive salary and stock options, with benefits varying by country. Public job-market data shows example advertised ranges around $86K for Product Advocate, $132K for Senior Solutions Engineer, and $149K for Engineering Manager; these are role/location-specific signals, not a company-wide compensation policy.
Benefits
Pricing
Consumption-based pricing tied primarily to data ingest per day. Public tiers include Free (up to 1 TB/day), Standard (up to 5 TB/day), and Enterprise (unlimited TB/day); enterprise features include multiple workspaces, federated authentication/RBAC, and 24x7 support.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Public revenue estimate unavailable; company-reported ARR exceeded $300M in 2025. ARR should not be treated as GAAP annual revenue.
Cribl announced the acquisition of CardinalOps, adding agentic detection-engineering capabilities and announcing a new Tel Aviv office. Purchase price was not disclosed publicly; a trade report characterized the transaction as approximately $100M, which remains an estimate.
SourceCribl · Jul 2026
Cribl acquired CardinalOps to add agentic detection engineering, strengthen security-operations capabilities, and establish a Tel Aviv office.
Cribl · Mar 2026
Cribl announced an AI-native Search architecture with federated analysis, ingestion-time normalization, human-context fusion, and bring-your-own-model support.
Cribl · Feb 2026
Cribl reported more than $300M ARR in 2025, cloud ARR above $130M, and customer growth to approximately 50% of the Fortune 100 and 35% of the Fortune 500.
Cribl · Jan 2026
Cribl.Cloud Government received a Moderate FedRAMP authorization, enabling federal procurement; Cribl said more than 20 federal agencies already used its products.
Cribl · Apr 2025
The partnership added a Cortex XSIAM integration intended to simplify data onboarding and accelerate migration from legacy SIEM environments.
55 jobs at Cribl