CrowdStrike® Inc announced its rapid expansion of its Asia Pacific (APAC) operations on the heels of triple-digit bookings growth. The company has established offices and headcount in key markets including Singapore, New Zealand, India and Northern Asia. Increased demand within the APAC region for CrowdStrike Falcon® leads the first cloud-based endpoint protection platform, continues to spike as organizations replace legacy antivirus (AV) solutions with next-generation technology.
CrowdStrike Falcon is the only platform that unifies next-generation AV, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and a 24/7 threat hunting service which all are delivered via a single lightweight agent. With CrowdStrike Falcon, organizations can replace their AV or augment it with a full-scale endpoint protection solution, powered by a cloud-native architecture and artificial intelligence/machine learning.
While CrowdStrike opened APAC headquarters in June 2016, the organization has had customers within the region for more than four years. Since then, CrowdStrike has seen growing its momentum in its business and operations, sales growth, and a rapidly expanding customer base. In May, CrowdStrike completed a $100 million Series D funding round, led by existing investor Accel along with CapitalG (formerly Google Capital), Warburg Pincus, March Capital Partners and regional investor Telstra. This round of funding will help CrowdStrike further accelerate its APAC expansion to meet the spiking demand for its Falcon platform.
CrowdStrike has made multiple strategic hires to continue investment in the APAC region including regional director for India and SAARC, APAC director of Channel and Alliances, and regional Sales and Marketing managers for New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Victoria, Australia In tandem with its expanding operations. CrowdStrike’s operations in APAC now include Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India, and parts of Northern Asia.
Other regional milestones include:
245 percent growth in new customers, year over year
Total bookings year-over-year increased by 410 percent
154 percent channel pipeline growth
Doubled headcount and continued investments to broaden the partner and channel pipeline