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Cribl has raised $598.0M across 5 funding rounds.
Key people at Cribl.
Cribl was founded in 2017 by Ledion Bitincka (Founder) and Dritan Bitincka (Founder) and Clint Sharp (Founder).
Cribl has raised $598.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Cribl is an Oakland, California-based enterprise software company that provides a vendor-agnostic data processing engine for IT and security teams to manage and route telemetry data from any source to any destination. The organization operates on a subscription-based software licensing framework, offering core products like Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, and Cribl Search to help enterprises sift through complex machine data for observability and cybersecurity insights. The infrastructure business has scaled rapidly to surpass $100 million in annual recurring revenue and currently employs a global workforce of more than 500 people. Cribl has secured over $600 million in total venture funding from lead investors such as CRV, while earning corporate workplace recognition from major business publications including Forbes and Fortune. The company was officially founded in 2018 by chief executive officer Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka.
Key people at Cribl.
Cribl was founded in 2017 by Ledion Bitincka (Founder) and Dritan Bitincka (Founder) and Clint Sharp (Founder).
Cribl has raised $598.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Cribl's investors include Google Ventures, Accel, CRV, A Capital, Addition, AIX Ventures, Alkeon Capital, B Capital Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Betaworks Ventures, Cedar Capital Group, E1 Ventures.
Cribl has raised $598.0M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $200.0M Series E in August 2024.
Cribl is a data engineering company founded by three former Splunk employees, focused on helping enterprises unlock the value of their machine and observability data. Their flagship product, Cribl Stream, is a vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline that enables IT and security teams to collect, process, route, and analyze massive volumes of data efficiently. Cribl’s solutions serve Fortune 1000 companies worldwide, addressing the challenge of managing ever-growing observability data by providing choice, control, and flexibility over data flow and storage. Their product suite also includes Cribl Edge (an intelligent agent), Cribl Search (a search-in-place solution), and Cribl Lake (a turnkey data lake), all designed to optimize data management and reduce costs while enhancing security and operational insights[1][2][4][7].
Cribl was founded in 2018 in San Francisco by Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka, all veterans of Splunk. Their experience at Splunk exposed them to the limitations of traditional log management systems, such as high ingestion costs and vendor lock-in. Motivated to solve these problems, they created Cribl to give enterprises control over their observability data by enabling filtering, shaping, and routing before data reaches storage or analysis tools. This approach allowed customers to send only valuable data to expensive platforms like Splunk and route less critical data to cheaper storage, addressing a major pain point in enterprise security and IT data management. Early traction came from their innovative pipeline solution, which positioned Cribl as a category creator in the telemetry data space[1][2][3].
Cribl rides the growing trend of exploding observability data volumes, which Gartner estimates to increase by 25% annually. Enterprises face ballooning costs and complexity in managing telemetry data from logs, metrics, and traces. Cribl’s timing is critical as organizations seek alternatives to rigid, costly SIEMs and proprietary observability stacks. By enabling flexible, programmable data pipelines and a vision toward a "Telemetry Services Cloud," Cribl addresses market forces demanding cost efficiency, data control, and operational agility. Their influence extends to shaping how enterprises architect data infrastructure for security and observability, fostering an ecosystem that prioritizes open, vendor-neutral data management[2][3][7][9].
Looking ahead, Cribl aims to evolve from a pipeline provider to a full telemetry services cloud, abstracting operational burdens while enhancing user control over data collection, processing, and analysis. Trends such as increasing data volumes, cloud migration, and the need for integrated security observability will shape their journey. Cribl’s continued innovation and strategic partnerships position it to become a critical infrastructure layer in enterprise data ecosystems. Their influence is likely to grow as organizations prioritize flexible, cost-effective data strategies, reinforcing Cribl’s mission to unlock the full value of observability data[2][5].
