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Redwood City, California

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Sumo Logic is a pioneer in continuous intelligence and a prominent cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) data analytics company focusing on cybersecurity, security analytics, observability, and log management. Founded in 2010 by ArcSight veterans Kumar Saurabh and Christian Beedgen, the company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with additional global locations. Sumo Logic helps digital businesses address the growing data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications, and cloud computing. The company empowers development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) teams to transform massive amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data into actionable insights to monitor, manage, troubleshoot, and secure their applications and infrastructure. The core of Sumo Logic’s offerings revolves around its Continuous Intelligence Platform, an AI-powered, multi-tenant, and elastic exabyte-scale platform that unifies enterprise log data, metrics, and events. This single source of truth enables teams to simplify operational complexity, collaborate efficiently, and accelerate data-driven decisions. The platform features an advanced observability solution to manage application reliability for cloud environments and a comprehensive security solution that helps security operation centers (SOCs) detect threats, perform security analysis and forensics, and automate security responses. In 2025, the company launched Sumo Logic Dojo AI, an agent-powered security operations service that utilizes three distinct agents (Mobot, Query Agent, and Summary Agent) to automate routine tasks, triage alerts, and streamline security operations, helping teams isolate critical threats amidst massive volumes of enterprise signals. Sumo Logic’s architecture features a globally distributed data retention architecture that keeps all log data available for instant analysis, eliminating the need for enterprises to manage the cost and complexity of data archiving, backups, and restoration. Throughout its growth, Sumo Logic expanded its technological capabilities via key acquisitions, including FactorChain in 2018, Archsaber and JASK in 2019, and DFLabs and Sensu in 2021, strengthening its security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) and workflow monitoring capabilities. After initially operating in stealth mode, Sumo Logic debuted on the NASDAQ stock exchange through an initial public offering (IPO) on September 17, 2020. However, in May 2023, the company was taken private by the prominent investment firm Francisco Partners in a transaction valued at $1.7 billion. Today, Sumo Logic is a private company led by CEO Mike Ties, employing nearly 1,000 workers globally. More than 2,400 customers worldwide—including major organizations like Alaska Airlines, Major League Baseball, Netflix, and Samsung—rely on the Sumo Logic platform to protect and power digital innovation, ensuring their cloud infrastructures remain secure, fast, and reliable.