Netskope, Inc. is an American software company founded in 2012 that helps companies find, understand, and secure over 5,000 cloud and software-as-a-service apps. Netskope is based in Los Altos, California, with a software development office in Bangalore, India. Netskope was founded by Sanjay Beri, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, and Krishna Narayanaswamy, with $21.4 million in funding. Several of the company's early employees were distinguished engineers and principal architects from companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Juniper NetworksIntruVert.
Proofpoint, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, California and provides SaaS and on-premises solutions for inbound email security, outbound data loss prevention, privacy protection, email encryption, electronic discovery and email archiving. Proofpoint delivers an integrated suite of on-demand data protection solutions spanning threat management, regulatory compliance, data governance and secure communicationsall of which are based on a common security-as-a-service platform.