Company profile
Proofpoint
People-centric email and collaboration security for large enterprises.
- Status
- Private (Thoma Bravo-owned)Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint is in talks to acquire Varonis Systems (Rumor Mill, Sep 2–28, 2026; no signed deal). Source
- Valuation
- Undisclosed
- Latest funding
- Undisclosed
- Website
- proofpoint.com
- Last updated
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Funding & valuation
Funding: Undisclosed — no round recorded in the CyberMerge Funding Tracker.
Versus matchups
- Abnormal vs ProofpointEmail · Archive
Versus calls are editorial, not audited market share.
Competitors
Same-category peers from CyberMerge Research maps, Startup Radar and What's The Use tags.
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On the desk
- Today's Deals · M&A · Oct 1, 2026 Talks to buy VRNS (~$5–5.4B mkt); still unsigned. Reuters / Bloomberg / Investing.com, 2–3 Sep 2026
- Rumor Mill (unconfirmed) · Sep 2, 2026 Proofpoint (Thoma Bravo) is in talks to buy Varonis — no price, no signed deal. Bloomberg / Reuters
Figures appear only as recorded in CyberMerge data, with source and date. “Undisclosed” means no published figure in our data. Editorial, not investment advice. Last updated . Spot an error? Tell the desk.
