Andreessen Horowitz invests another $52M in security startup Tanium at a $1.75B valuation, bringing the total invested by the VC firm to $142M
Andreessen Horowitz Invests Another $52 Million in Tanium at $1.75 Billion Valuation — Security and systems management startup Tanium said today …
Context & Ripple Effects
Andreessen Horowitz is doubling down rather than taking a markup: its latest $52M check brings its total commitment to Tanium to $142M at a $1.75B valuation, unusual conviction for an endpoint-security startup whose technology already reaches half of the top 100 US corporations.
The bet ages fast. Within six months, TPG and IVP lead a $120M Series G at roughly double the price, and by 2020 a Salesforce-led round values Tanium at $9B — making this March 2015 round the early marker of one of the decade's steepest private-security value curves.
First-order effects
- Tanium gains $52M of primary growth capital at a $1.75B valuation to scale sales against incumbent systems-management vendors, while Andreessen Horowitz deepens ownership in what becomes its most concentrated security position.
Second-order effects
- Institutional investors take the signal: TPG and IVP lead a $120M round at a $3.5B valuation just months later, pulling private-equity and crossover money into a category previously funded by traditional VC.
Third-order effects
- If the pattern holds — follow-ons at $6.5B in 2018, $9B with Salesforce in 2020, and a 2017 round explicitly designed to give early investors and employees liquidity — enterprise security consolidates into a small set of heavily capitalized platforms, with late-stage capital setting valuations long before any IPO.
The trend: Enterprise security startups are riding a compounding private-capital curve in which each round's valuation doubles down on the prior one and pulls PE and strategic investors into late-stage venture.