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CrowdStrike Named One of Best-Led Companies in America

New list from Inc. showcases CrowdStrike’s position at the vanguard of reinventing American business

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection and workload protection, today announced that it took a top spot in Inc.’s first annual Best-Led Companies list. Inc. ranked CrowdStrike fourth out of 250 companies, both public and private, that are making a massive impact on the U.S. economy, have a dedicated, thriving workforce, and represent some of the strongest revenue drivers in the country.

Founded in 2011, CrowdStrike has revolutionized the security industry through its market-leading technology, the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and innovative approach. CrowdStrike’s top ranking is another key indicator of the company’s disruption of the security market, illustrating how CrowdStrike is outperforming competitors, penetrating key markets, engaging with customers, and more. Additionally, it represents the organization’s encouraging culture and commitment to progressing the company’s mission. As a remote-first company, CrowdStrike’s executive leadership understood from its inception that a strong corporate culture would serve as the foundation for the company’s continued success and today the company continues to hire rapidly across the globe.

“At CrowdStrike we have created a culture of innovation, commitment to our customers and excellence in industry leadership. Fostering our vibrant company culture and a best-in-class workforce has been integral to our success and remain cornerstones behind our leadership in the technology market,” said George Kurtz, chief executive officer of CrowdStrike. “We take immense pride in Inc. recognizing all of the hard work that CrowdStriker’s do 24/7/365 and we thank all of our customers for their continued trust and support.”

“This inaugural list of companies represents the remarkable mid-sized companies, both public and private, often founder-led, that are at the vanguard of reinventing American business,” says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. magazine. “With their leadership, all business will benefit from an exciting, competitive future full of possibilities.”

Inc. analyzed companies via a 12-point measurement algorithm generated with input from partners at Pitchbook and Shango Labs that identified the very best companies according to their leadership teams’ superlative accomplishments in four key areas: performance and value creation; market penetration and customer engagement; talent; and leadership team. Private and public U.S.-based companies were also evaluated based on a 2020 revenue of $50 million to $2 billion or a valuation of $50 million to $10 billion.

CrowdStrike has consistently received awards for it’s strong culture and leadership. Previous accolades include:

To view Inc.’s complete list, please visit Inc.’s website.

To find out more about CrowdStrike’s dedicated focus to DE&I efforts and workplace culture, please visit our website.

About Inc.

The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc., offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community they need to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across various channels, including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 allows the founders of the best businesses to engage with an exclusive community of their peers and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining security for the cloud era with an endpoint and workload protection platform built from the ground up to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints and workloads on or off the network. Powered by the proprietary CrowdStrike Threat Graph®, CrowdStrike Falcon captures approximately 1 trillion high-fidelity signals per day in real time from across the globe, fueling one of the world’s most advanced data platforms for security.

With CrowdStrike, customers benefit from better protection, better performance and immediate time-to-value delivered by the cloud-native Falcon platform.

There’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

Qualifying organizations can gain full access to Falcon Prevent™ by starting a free trial.

Learn more: https://www.crowdstrike.com/

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CrowdStrike Corporate Communications
press@crowdstrike.com

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