Darktrace

Darktrace is a cybersecurity firm based in the United Kingdom and the United States. The company was founded in 2013, with offices in both Cambridge (UK) and San Francisco (USA). In addition to being part of the FTSE 250 Index, it is also traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Darktrace was established in 2013 in Cambridge with help from British intelligence agencies and Mike Lynch's Invoke Capital. Lynch is a co-founder of Autonomy, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011 amid allegations of fraud and a legal battle to extradite him to the United States. Darktrace described the possibility of liability resulting from the lawsuit against Lynch as "low risk" in the registration paperwork it submitted to the stock market.

Many of Darktrace's upper-level executives, including CEO Poppy Gustafsson, CTO Jack Stockdale, and CISO Nicole Eagan, were formerly employed by rival company Autonomy. Darktrace was a wholly owned subsidiary of Invoke Capital as of the end of 2013, and Invoke Capital also supplied 15 of Darktrace's 40 employees.

Founded: 2013
Headquarters: Cambridge, England, and 555 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Website: www.darktrace.com