Cribl
Category: AI Infrastructure
Cribl is the AI Platform for Telemetry, providing a vendor-agnostic data platform for IT and security teams to collect, process, route, store, and analyze telemetry data at scale. Cribl was founded in 2018. The company is led by Clint Sharp. Based in San Francisco, California, United States. Total funding raised: $600.0M. Latest round: Series E. Key investors include GV (Google Ventures), GIC, CapitalG, IVP, CRV, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Citi Ventures, CrowdStrike.
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Total funding
- $600.0M
Value proposition
Vendor-agnostic telemetry data platform that gives enterprises choice, control, and flexibility to manage, investigate, and analyze all IT and security data without lock-in, data loss, or compromises — reducing costs while enabling AI-era operations.
Products and solutions
Cribl Stream (telemetry pipeline for collecting, processing, and routing data), Cribl Edge (edge data collection agent), Cribl Search (vendor-agnostic federated search for search-in-place queries), Cribl Lake (cloud data lake for telemetry storage), Cribl.Cloud (fully managed cloud platform), Cribl AI Insights (AI-powered analytics), Cribl Apps (custom app-building capability)
Unique value
The only vendor-agnostic AI Platform for Telemetry that lets enterprises collect once and search anywhere, reducing data costs by up to 50% while enabling AI-driven investigations across Splunk, Elastic, CrowdStrike, and other tools without vendor lock-in.
Target customer
Enterprise IT operations, security operations (SOC), platform engineering, and SRE teams at large enterprises, including half of the Fortune 100 and 35% of the Fortune 500
Industries served
Technology & Software, Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Federal/Government, Manufacturing & Logistics, Communications & Media, Education
Technology advantage
Vendor-agnostic architecture enabling data routing, transformation, and search across any destination; federated search-in-place technology (Cribl Search) eliminating data duplication; AI-native telemetry platform built for agentic AI workloads; open-source contributions (AppScope); deep integrations with AWS, Azure, GCP, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, Elastic
How they differentiate
Unlike Splunk, Datadog, or Elastic which lock customers into their ecosystems, Cribl is the "Switzerland of data" — a vendor-neutral layer that works across all tools. Customers can reduce data volumes by 50%+, tier data to low-cost storage, and search in-place without moving data. The platform is built specifically for IT and security telemetry, not general-purpose data.
Main competitors
Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Chronosphere, Edge Delta
Key partnerships
AWS (strategic partner, AWS Marketplace), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CrowdStrike (CrowdStream integration, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM), Palo Alto Networks (major partnership), Wiz, Elastic, Splunk, Confluent
Notable customers
ServiceNow, Nutanix, Cox Automotive, Hughes Network Systems, Pegasystems, Sophos, Reddit, Accenture Federal Services, Yale New Haven Health, Sally Beauty, Repsol
Major milestones
2018: Company founded, 2019: Cribl Stream 2.0 GA, 2020: Launched Cribl.Cloud, 2021: $200M Series C at $1.5B valuation, 2022: $150M Series D led by Tiger Global, 2023: Surpassed $100M ARR (4th fastest infra centaur), 2024: $319M Series E at $3.5B valuation, 2025: Surpassed $200M ARR, then $300M ARR, Ranked #1 Forbes America's Best Startup Employers, 2026: Acquired CardinalOps (~$100M) to enter security operations market, FedRAMP ATO achieved
Growth metrics
$300M+ ARR (2025); 40%+ YoY ARR growth; 1,400+ customers; 50% of Fortune 100; 35% of Fortune 500; 1,000+ employees; 130%+ net dollar retention; Cloud ARR $130M+ growing 75% YoY
Market positioning
Category leader in the observability pipeline / telemetry data management market. Fourth-fastest infrastructure company to reach $100M ARR (centaur status). Surpassed $300M ARR in 2025. Valued at $3.5B (Series E, Aug 2024). Serves 50% of Fortune 100.
Geographic focus
Global (HQ in San Francisco, offices in US, Europe, Australia, and new Tel Aviv office via CardinalOps acquisition)
About Clint Sharp
Ex-Splunk Senior Director of Product Management (Splunk Cloud, big data products); Ex-Cricket Communications (application operations leadership)
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Official website: https://cribl.io