Acquisition
Feb 2023Vista Equity Partners-led merger closed; KnowBe4 became a wholly owned subsidiary and was taken private. Consideration to equityholders was approximately $4.6 billion.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
KnowBe4 is a Clearwater, Florida-based cybersecurity company focused on digital workforce security: helping organizations reduce human and AI-agent risk through security awareness training, attack simulation, collaboration security, and agent security. It reports serving more than 70,000 organizations worldwide.
Primary product
KnowBe4 Platform: cloud-based security awareness training and attack simulation, including phishing/vishing/smishing simulations, Risk Score, SecurityCoach, PhishER/PhishML, collaboration security, and AI Defense Agents (AIDA), including Agent Risk Manager.
Founded
2010
Headquarters
Clearwater, Florida, United States
Team size
Approximately 2,000–3,000 worldwide; third-party workforce estimate was 2,789 in March 2026.
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Computer and network security
Sub-industry
Security awareness training, human risk management, email/collaboration security, and AI-agent security
Offices
Clearwater, Florida, United States (global headquarters)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Washington, DC, United States
London, United Kingdom
Utrecht, Netherlands (European headquarters)
Berlin, Germany
Lyon, France
Cape Town, South Africa
São Paulo, Brazil
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Business model
Funding
Stage
Acquired/private-equity-backed; no longer publicly traded after the 2023 Vista transaction
Total raised
$403M
Latest round
Series D · Jun 2019
Latest amount
$309M
Vista Equity Partners acquisition / take-private
Feb 2023 · Vista Equity Partners
Jun 2019 · KKR
People & investors
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Executive Chairman
Alicia Tawil
Chief Legal Officer
Yuneeb Khan
Chief Financial Officer
Work & culture
Official careers materials emphasize Extreme Ownership, Radical Transparency, a daily CEO update, a Culture of Celebration, professional development, internal promotion, and diversity/inclusion/belonging initiatives. The stated operating principles include doing it right the first time, doing it fast, and having fun.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public signals indicate a global average salary estimate around $85,269 from a third-party workforce dataset, with substantial geographic variation; official materials mention bonuses, education/certification support, and benefits but do not publish a universal compensation band.
Benefits
3.5% 401(k) match
Fully paid medical, vision, and dental insurance
FSA and HSA
Open paid time off and national/heritage holidays
Eight weeks fully paid parental and adoption leave
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
Certification bonuses up to $5,000 per year
Employee referral bonuses and company-wide sales-target bonuses
Gym/fitness benefits and Employee Assistance Program
Employee resource groups, relaxed dress code, snacks, and social activities
Product & market
Pricing
Primarily per-user/per-seat subscription pricing, generally annual or multi-year, with tiers and volume/term-based negotiation; public pricing is not consistently available for all products.
Differentiators
- —Large security-awareness training and simulated-social-engineering content library
- —Integrated phishing, vishing, smishing, training, reporting, and Risk Score
- —AI Defense Agents and AI-agent risk management alongside human-risk controls
- —Real-time SecurityCoach coaching and PhishER/PhishML email triage
- —15 years of behavioral data and claimed customer base exceeding 70,000 organizations
- —Global offices, localized content, and broad compliance/training coverage
Technology
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $200M–$300M annually; one third-party company profile estimates $246.3M. Treat as an estimate, not audited current revenue.
Estimated monthly visits
3.2M
Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Jul 2024KnowBe4 acquired Egress, expanding its cloud email security and data-loss-prevention capabilities.
SourceOther
May 2025Founder Stu Sjouwerman moved to Executive Chairman and Bryan Palma became President and CEO, representing a significant leadership transition.
Latest news
IT Brief · Aug 2026
KnowBe4 added Anthropic Claude support to Agent Risk Manager, extending monitoring and governance of AI-agent activity, tool access, prompt injection, data leakage, and privilege risks.
KnowBe4 · Jul 2026
KnowBe4 announced simulated vishing with realistic caller ID, personas, and multi-step phone scenarios whose results feed the platform Risk Score.
KnowBe4 · May 2026
KnowBe4 launched SAT Foundation and SAT Advanced tiers and a generative-AI Content Creation Agent within AIDA.
U.S. SEC · Feb 2023
The merger closed, taking KnowBe4 private and making it a wholly owned subsidiary of Vista-affiliated parent Oranje Holdco.
Open Positions
78 jobs at KnowBe4
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