CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, Texas since it moved from Sunnyvale, California in 2021. It popularized cloud-native endpoint detection and response with Falcon, which replaced signature-based antivirus with a lightweight sensor and cloud analytics. Today Falcon covers endpoint, identity, cloud, SIEM, threat intelligence, and managed services. CrowdStrike had 10,698 employees at the end of fiscal 2026 and joined the S&P 500 in June 2024.
CrowdStrike makes money mainly from subscriptions to its Falcon platform, which accounts for roughly 95% of revenue; the rest comes from professional services such as incident response. Customers deploy one sensor and pay per protected endpoint, workload, or identity, then add modules (EDR/XDR, identity protection, cloud security, Next-Gen SIEM, exposure management, Charlotte AI) without installing new software. Falcon Flex lets customers pre-commit spend and switch modules on as needed. Ending ARR from Flex accounts passed $2.29 billion in July 2026, up 101% year over year. Sales run through a direct field team, channel partners, MSSPs, and cloud marketplaces such as AWS Marketplace.