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SentinelOne, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, just might be for sale. After Reuters reported the possibility the company’s shares went up by 14% on Monday but dropped again Tuesday by 3.45% closing at $16.24. SentinelOne closed trading Tuesday with a market cap of $4.7 billion.
This is only half of what the SentinelOne market cap was at its high in January 2021.
According to the report, several parties showed interest in acquiring SentinelOne, but the company was not happy with the offers that they made. And sources told Reuters the company has hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners to advise on discussions with potential acquirers, including private equity firms.
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The news came just a few months after SentinelOne laid off about 100 people or 5% of its total worldwide workforce. And that move came after the company lost 35% of its share value after reporting a loss of $106.9 million.
“Our company is strong and growing rapidly. But like any other company, we operate in a particularly challenging environment,” SentinalOne said in a statement at the time about the cutbacks. “To maintain growth and ensure we are on the road to profitability, we must adjust expenses and channel resources to focus on high-priority initiatives that will allow us to meet our long-term needs and those of our customers and partners.
As for its losses, the company said, “Macroeconomic pressures continue to impact deal sizes, sales cycles, and pipeline conversion rates. While not entirely new, the impact of these factors was more pronounced in Q1. Together, these evolving dynamics also impacted our expectations for Q2 and fiscal year 24.”
Founded in 2013 by a team of cybersecurity and defense experts including its CEO Tomer Weingarten and Almog Cohen, SentinelOne is a provider of autonomous security solutions for endpoint, cloud, and identity environments. The company says its platform unifies prevention, detection, response, remediation, and forensics in a single, easy-to-use solution.
