Tanium funding, valuation and investors

Overview

Tanium provides endpoint management and security software that gives IT and security teams real-time visibility and control over computers, servers, and cloud endpoints at enterprise scale. Founded in 2007, the company uses a peer-to-peer architecture to query endpoints without heavy infrastructure. Andreessen Horowitz participated from Series E onward alongside IVP, TPG, and Salesforce Ventures in later rounds. Tanium has remained private with reported multi-billion valuations and profitability uncommon in venture-backed security.

Why Tanium is interesting

Tanium's real-time endpoint visibility at scale — without cloud dependency — made it a rare profitable enterprise security company; a16z backed from Series E through multi-billion growth rounds.

Product & use cases

Tanium's platform unifies endpoint management, patching, asset inventory, and security operations — querying endpoints in seconds across global fleets via a unique linear chain architecture.

• Enterprise IT patch management and compliance reporting
• Security incident response and threat hunting at endpoint scale
• Asset discovery and configuration management for hybrid environments

Key facts

• Series E (2014): $90M with a16z participation (TechCrunch)
• Endpoint management at enterprise scale; reported profitable growth
• Peer-to-peer query architecture for real-time fleet visibility
• Later rounds included IVP, TPG, Salesforce Ventures (press)

Funding history (newest first)

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Tanium's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Competitive landscape

Edge: Speed of endpoint query at massive scale without cloud-only architecture — differentiated for air-gapped and large on-prem fleets.

Endpoint management incumbents bundle with OS and EDR vendors. Tanium's wedge is unified IT+security visibility at scale for Fortune 500 complexity — must keep pace with cloud-native endpoint shifts.

• Microsoft Intune / Defender incumbent

  Bundled with Microsoft 365; Tanium wins in heterogeneous estates.

• CrowdStrike Falcon adjacent

  Endpoint security focus; less IT operations breadth.

• ServiceNow ITOM adjacent

  IT workflow platform; different endpoint query model.

Notable stories

• Tanium demonstrated querying thousands of endpoints in seconds at a16z demo days — the architecture became its enterprise moat narrative (industry coverage).

Industries