# Splunk

> Splunk is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Big Data and Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/splunk
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/splunk
- Website: https://www.splunk.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/splunk

Splunk is a cloud-first software company that provides operational intelligence software that monitors, reports, and analyzes real-time machine data for security, IT, and business. It offers a range of solutions, including advanced threat detection, incident management, cloud monitoring, security monitoring, serving manufacturing, retail, andfinancial services.The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Splunk. Shizune tracks 25 team members at Splunk. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/splunk?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 2 | 67% |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 67% |
| B2B | 1 | 33% |
| Computer | 1 | 33% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Craig Hyde | Chief Strategic Advisor / Field CTO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-hyde-2 |
| Dan Jones | Sr. Principal Architect at Splunk | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-jones-4 |
| Ivo Mägi | Principal Product Manager | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivo-mgi |
| Mark Carges | Member of the Board of Directors | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-carges |
| Ori Broit | Director of Product Marketing - Cloud-Native Observability | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ori-broit |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fletch | Fletch is democratizing cybersecurity analytics by creating ready to go apps like the Fletch Trending Threats app that literally reads the threat news for companies daily telling them the threats that matter daily. | $15.8M | Series A | Jul 21, 2021 |  |
| Insight Engines | Insight Engines empowers organizations to do deeply technical investigations of their data in minutes that today take days. Our first set of cyber security focused products are used daily by some of the largest healthcare, finance, and government organizations to go beyond their SIEM. (1) We automatically let them know the use cases that arepossible with the data in their log store, and what data they may want to remove. (2) We empower them to ask questions of their log data, via our unique natural language search technology, and get relevant answers in seconds. (3) We give them timely recommendations of what to ask. Our investors include folks like August Capital, Google Ventures, and DCVC. | $15.8M |  | Jul 20, 2017 |  |
| Acalvio Technologies | Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter. The solutions are anchored on patented innovations in Deception and Data Science. This enables a DevOps approach to ATD, enabling ease of deployment, monitoring and management. Acalvio enriches its threat intelligenceby data obtained from internal and partner ecosystems, enabling customers to benefit from defense in depth, reduce false positives, and derive actionable intelligence for remediation. | $16M | Series B | Jul 26, 2016 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [August Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/august-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eileses Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eileses-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Splunk invest in?

Splunk invests primarily in Big Data, Software and Cyber Security startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Splunk?

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### Who are the partners at Splunk?

The team at Splunk includes Craig Hyde (Chief Strategic Advisor / Field CTO), Dan Jones (Sr. Principal Architect at Splunk) and Ivo Mägi (Principal Product Manager), among 25 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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