Phantom Cyber
Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) — automate playbooks across security tools.
Funding & Investors
$22.7M
Seed, Series A, Series B ($13.5M)
Outcome
Acquired by Splunk in 2018 for $350M; Splunk acquired by Cisco in 2024 for $28B
Lesson Learned
Defined the SOAR category. Lesson: building a platform that integrates with other tools (rather than replacing them) is a powerful go-to-market wedge.
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