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Darktrace

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AI-native cybersecurity company whose self-learning platform models what is normal for each customer and detects and autonomously responds to novel threats across network, email, cloud, OT, identity and endpoints; Cyber AI Analyst investigates the alerts.

Total funding—

Valuation$5.3B

Employees2,400

Founded2013

HeadquartersCambridge, United Kingdom

StatusPrivate

Products

Reviewed against the official catalog on 5 Sep 2026. The ActiveAI Security Platform page's own product navigation: the platform, its 7 core products and its 6 cross-platform products — 14 records, no more and no fewer.

• Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform Platform

  Darktrace's self-learning security platform, sold as a set of natively integrated products (network, email, cloud, OT, identity, endpoint and AI-agent security) that share one Adaptive AI model of what is normal for a customer and respond autonomously when behaviour deviates; being renamed the Behavioral Defense Platform.

Inside Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform

• Cyber AI Analyst Application Included with the parent

  The investigation engine inside every Darktrace product: triages each alert the way a human analyst would, using Darktrace's DEMIST-2 and DIGEST models to correlate events into an incident narrative and write the report -- Darktrace says it accelerates triage by 10x. Not sold on its own.

• Darktrace / SECURE AI Application Included with the parent

  Security for an organisation's own AI agents and assistants: learns how each agent normally behaves and what access it accumulates, and flags drift, misuse and prompt-driven abuse before it spreads.

• Darktrace / NETWORK Application Included with the parent

  Network detection and response that models normal traffic for every device and user inside the customer's own environment, then detects and contains known and unknown threats without cloud-trained signatures.

• Darktrace / EMAIL Application Included with the parent

  Email security that learns each mailbox's normal correspondence to stop novel phishing, account takeover and business email compromise, with add-on modules for data loss prevention, messaging apps and DMARC.

• Darktrace / CLOUD Application Included with the parent

  Cloud detection and response across multi-cloud environments: maps identities, roles and permissions, detects lateral movement and insider threats, and enforces compliance baselines.

• Darktrace / OT Application Included with the parent

  Operational-technology security that protects industrial production assets and the IT systems connected to them in one model, covering risk management, detection and response for OT networks.

• Darktrace / IDENTITY Application Included with the parent

  Identity threat detection and response that learns how each account normally behaves across SaaS, cloud and network to catch account takeover and credential misuse that perimeter tools trust by default.

• Darktrace / ENDPOINT Application Included with the parent

  Endpoint detection and response that builds a pattern of life for each device, including standalone and remote endpoints, and contains threats that deviate from it.

• Darktrace / Proactive Exposure Management Application Included with the parent

  Exposure management that ranks a customer's attack paths and vulnerabilities by the AI's model of their estate, so remediation targets the risks most likely to be exploited.

• Darktrace / Attack Surface Management Application Included with the parent

  External attack-surface discovery that finds the internet-facing assets an organisation does not know it owns and scores the exposure they create.

• Darktrace / Incident Readiness & Recovery Application Included with the parent

  Incident readiness that generates bespoke, AI-written response playbooks for a customer's own environment and supports recovery and compliance reporting after an attack.

• Darktrace / Forensic Acquisition & Investigation Application Included with the parent

  Automated forensic capture for cloud, container and ephemeral assets, triggered from any alert source over API so evidence is preserved before it disappears.

• Darktrace / Adaptive Human Defense Application Included with the parent

  Personalised security coaching: phishing simulations and bite-size e-learning tuned to each employee's behaviour, feeding what it learns back into the platform's detection.

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Sources

Valuation

Press release · 1 Oct 2024

Darktrace's own announcement of the completed take-private acquisition by Thoma Bravo: $5.3 billion cash deal, $7.75 per share, closed 2024-10-01. Darktrace delisted from the London Stock Exchange (FTSE 100) and continues to operate and ship product under its own name, so the record is kept rather than merged -- the acquirer, Thoma Bravo, is a private equity firm and is not itself an AI company this directory would list.

Employees

Press release · 1 Oct 2024

Same release. States Darktrace's "platform and services are supported by over 2,400 employees around the world who protect nearly 10,000 customers across all major industries globally."

Founded

Press release · 1 Oct 2024

Same release states the company was founded in 2013.

Status

Company disclosure · 23 Sep 2026

Darktrace's own company page, read 2026-09-23: "Today, Darktrace is a global leader in cybersecurity AI" -- it operates and ships under its own name. Taken private by Thoma Bravo (completed 2024-10-01, Darktrace's own announcement at darktrace.com/news/darktrace-announces-formal-completion-of-its-acquisition-by-thoma-bravo). Status active: a company owned by a private-equity firm that still operates standalone is active under org-status.json's own definition -- the same reading as smartsheet and zendesk.

Description

Official documentation · 5 Sep 2026

Rewritten 2026-09-05 when the product catalog was reconciled: the old sentence named Cyber AI Analyst as the thing that 'detects and autonomously responds', which is what the seven platform products do; the Analyst investigates. Platform page: 'every product in the Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform is natively integrated'.

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