Cato Networks vs Grafana Labs
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Tel Aviv SASE pioneer (founded 2015, Check Point co-founder) at $300M+ ARR (Sep 2025) and $4.8B valuation (Series G Jun 2025); first acquisition Aim Security AI Sep 2025 competing with Palo Alto Prisma SASE and Zscaler.
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Cato Networks is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) network security company — having raised over $1 billion in total funding including a Series G round in June 2025 at a $4.8 billion valuation — providing enterprises with a converged SD-WAN, network security (firewall, CASB, DLP, ZTNA), and XDR platform delivered as a cloud-native service from a global Points of Presence (PoPs) network. Founded in 2015 by CEO Shlomo Kramer (co-founder of Check Point Software, pioneer of the commercial firewall in 1993, and founder of Imperva in 2002) and President Gur Shatz (co-founder of Incapsula, cloud web application security), the company defined the SASE category before Gartner formally named it in 2019. Cato surpassed $250 million in ARR in 2024 (+46% year-over-year growth) and reached $300+ million ARR by September 2025, serving 3,500+ enterprises across 190 countries with 50,000 connected sites and 1.5 million remote users protected by zero trust network access (ZTNA). In September 2025, Cato completed its first acquisition — Aim Security — to expand AI security capabilities for enterprise AI agent adoption.
Open-source observability leader with $6B valuation; Grafana dashboards plus Loki/Tempo/Mimir stack serving millions of installations as Datadog alternative with community-driven adoption.
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Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana — the world's most widely used open-source observability and data visualization platform — providing the Grafana Cloud managed service, Grafana Enterprise, and a suite of open-source tools including Loki (log aggregation), Tempo (distributed tracing), and Mimir (long-term Prometheus metrics storage). Founded in 2019 by Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Tom Wilkie (the creators of the original Grafana open-source project) in New York, Grafana Labs has raised over $600 million at a $6 billion valuation.\n\nGrafana's open-source project — downloadable and self-hostable for free — has driven extraordinary community adoption: millions of Grafana installations globally power engineering, IoT, and business dashboards at organizations from startups to large enterprises. Grafana's plugin ecosystem connects to 200+ data sources (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, AWS CloudWatch, databases), making it the universal observability visualization layer. Grafana Cloud packages the open-source tools into a fully managed SaaS offering with unlimited metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards.\n\nIn 2025, Grafana Labs competes in the observability platform market against Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, and the ELK/OpenSearch stack for enterprise monitoring and observability. Grafana's open-source-first model creates a moat through developer community and ecosystem — engineers who build personal dashboards on Grafana become advocates for Grafana Cloud at their employers. The company's OpenTelemetry alignment and multi-source data philosophy ("query any data, anywhere") differentiates it from Datadog's monolithic agent model. The 2025 strategy focuses on growing Grafana Cloud enterprise adoption, advancing AI-powered Sift (automatic anomaly investigation), and expanding the Grafana IRM (incident response management) product.
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