Netskope, Inc. lineage
Started by looking inside SaaS traffic when nobody else could, and bought only what it needed to become a full SASE platform.
What Netskope, Inc. is made of, and who made it. Every acquisition below is verified against primary sources, with the product line it turned into where that connection is documented rather than inferred.
Founded 2012 in Santa Clara, California as Netskope.
Cloud access security brokerage: understanding what users were actually doing inside SaaS applications, at a time when the network could see a connection to a cloud service but nothing about the activity within it. The data-classification depth from that era is still what the platform is judged on.
Raised more than $1.44B across twelve equity and debt rounds before filing to go public on NASDAQ.
Acquisitions
4 · 0 disclosed, as of July 2026- WootCloudundisclosed
Device intelligence and zero-trust controls for IoT and OT - the equipment that cannot run an agent.
Became: IoT and OT visibility within the platform.
July 2022.
- Infiotundisclosed
Cloud-delivered SD-WAN, the branch interconnectivity that Gartner treated as the dividing line between SSE and SASE.
Became: Borderless SD-WAN at general availability in April 2023, and now the foundation of the One SASE platform. This is the acquisition that moved Netskope from security service edge into full SASE.
August 2022.
- Kadiskaundisclosed
Digital experience monitoring from France - measuring what the user actually experiences rather than what the infrastructure reports.
Became: Inline experience monitoring across the SSE, the SD-WAN and the NewEdge network.
September 2023.
- Daseraundisclosed
Data security posture management - finding and classifying sensitive data at rest rather than in flight.
Became: DSPM alongside the inline DLP, pairing a data scanner with the traffic inspection Netskope started from.
October 2024.