8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (5)
#7944520 at 2020-01-28 20:52:33 (UTC+1)
#10167: Q- Durham, Second Revoluiton Anyone?! Edition
A venture capital company, Warburg Pincus, however, controls CrowdStrike.
Warburg invested more money into CrowdStrike than Google.
No one at Google is on CrowdStrike's Board of Directors. Warburg Pincus has two.
They are Cary Davis and Joseph Landy.
https://sharespost.com/companies/crowdstrike/
Warburg Pincus history dates back to 1913. The Federal Reserve System was Paul Warburg's idea.
He represented the U.S. at the Treaty of Versailles conference that ended World War I.
Who was sitting across the table from Paul in Versailles? His brother, Max, who represented Germany.
When Warburg Pincus invests, it is always as majority owner.
Timothy Geithner runs Warburg Pincus as its President and Managing Partner.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-16/tim-geithner-to-join-leveraged-buyout-firm-warburg-pincus
Geithner served as President Barack Obama's Secretary of the Treasury. Geithner was also President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
When Bill Clinton was President, Geithner specialized in International Affairs at the State Department.
Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has invested 60 billion in 780 companies in 40 countries.
The firm is headquartered in New York. It also has offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong,
London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Mauritius, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore.
https://sharespost.com/companies/crowdstrike/
http://www.warburgpincus.com/investments/crowdstrike/
Who else has the FBI's data? Where else will it be going? How will others use it?
SOURCE:
https://brassballs.blog/home/google-paid-100-million-dollars-for-tech-startup-crowdstrike-to-illegally-use-fbi-data-to-elect-democrats
#7944313 at 2020-01-28 20:41:08 (UTC+1)
#10167: Q- Durham, Second Revoluiton Anyone?! Edition
Google/+ Others Invested $256 MIL Into CrowdStrike So
Democrats Can Use FBI Wiretap Data to Regain Congress
Crowdstrike was the only one who examined the DNC server that was hacked in:
Nov. 2015 / May 2016 / June 2016 Why?
Because it was hacked by Crowdstrike's Ukranian hacking team.
The FBI never had access to the DNC servers.
Since CrowdStrike has top secret clearance, so does Google. So do other investors.
They all have "unlimited" access to the FBI's data, files, and surveillance information.
https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/13/google-capital-leads-100-million-cybersecurity-investment/
It is illegal to grant non-FBI employees access to top secret information, according to a court ruling by Judge
Rosemary Collyer, head of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
https://brassballs.blog/home/fisa-rules-fbi-illegally-outsourced-top-secret-spy-data
The data is being used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to regain control of Congress in November.
It was also used in the Hillary Clinton Campaign for President.
https://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign/
https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-team-hillarys-election-tech/
CrowdStrike has the only access to the DNC's computer systems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?utm_term=.42f1586e0f05
Google donated one of their planes for use by the Hillary Clinton Campaign for President.
A venture capital company, Warburg Pincus, however, controls CrowdStrike.
Warburg invested more money into CrowdStrike than Google.
No one at Google is on CrowdStrike's Board of Directors. Warburg Pincus has two.
They are Cary Davis and Joseph Landy.
https://sharespost.com/companies/crowdstrike/
SOURCE OF ALL ABOVE:
https://brassballs.blog/home/google-paid-100-million-dollars-for-tech-startup-crowdstrike-to-illegally-use-fbi-data-to-elect-democrats
#7485289 at 2019-12-12 02:27:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9574: Nothing Can Stop What Is Comfy. Nothing! Edition
Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc sold by Warburg Pincus Private Equity: $346.58m-Dec 9
CrowdStrike was co-founded by George Kurtz (CEO),Dmitri Alperovitch (CTO), and Gregg Marston (CFO, retired) in 2011. In 2012, Shawn Henry, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official who led both the FBI's criminal and cyber divisions, was hired to lead sister company CrowdStrike Services, Inc., which focused on proactive and incident response services. In June 2013, the company launched its first product, CrowdStrike Falcon. The company became known for providing threat intelligence and attribution to nation state actors that are conducting economic espionage and IP theft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrowdStrike
Warburg Family
In 1939 Eric Warburg of the Warburg banking family founded a company under the name E.M. Warburg & Co. Its first address was 52 William Street, New York, the Kuhn Loeb building. Throughout the early post-war period, the firm was a small office of 20 employees. In 1966, E.M. Warburg merged with Lionel I. Pincus & Co, forming a new company that eventually became known as E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. In 1965, when Eric Warburg retired to Germany, control was handed to Lionel Pincus, a partner in the Ladenburg Thalmann investment bank, and the working language of the office switched from German to English. Pincus ran the company from 1966 to 2002, and died in 2009.
Warburg Pincus began investing in Europe in 1983 and opened its first office in Asia in 1994. It has invested more than $5 billion in Europe; more than $3 billion in India and more than $3.3 billion in China. The firm is headquartered in New York and has offices in Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Mumbai, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore, with administrative offices in Amsterdam, Luxembourg and Mauritius.
The firm is structured as a global partnership led by co-presidents Charles Kaye and Joseph Landy
During the post-war period, Eric Warburg vied with his cousin Siegmund Warburg, founder of S.G. Warburg, over the use of the Warburg name in New York. Siegmund wished to expand the S.G. Warburg franchise into New York but was blocked by the existence of E.M. Warburg & Co. Following the effective sale of the business to Pincus, Siegmund Warburg accused Eric of prostituting the Warburg name. "Complicating matters was that Siegmund thought Pincus the wrong kind of Jew-of Eastern European ancestry, with a garment-district background. Professionally, he thought Pincus well below haute banque stature in the venture capital world."
In January 1970, Siegmund finally got the name changed to E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Company to differentiate it from S.G. Warburg & Company. "In the end, however, Lionel Pincus had the last laugh on Siegmund. He expanded Eric's tiny firm into a giant, thriving business, with three and a half billion dollars of venture capital partnerships."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_Pincus
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1414565&tc=7&b=2
#7395584 at 2019-11-29 21:26:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9458: FF Friday keeps rolling in! Edition
Silk Road Medical sold by Warburg Pincus & Co.: $52.50m-Nov 26
Largest institutional shareholder of this
Silk Road Medical, Inc. produces and distributes surgical equipment. The Company offers develops and manufactures less-invasive medical devices intended to improve the treatment of carotid artery disease through proprietary trans-carotid therapies. Silk Road Medical serves medical sector in the United States.
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/SILK:US
Warburg Pincus
In 1939 Eric Warburg of the Warburg banking family founded a company under the name E.M. Warburg & Co. Its first address was 52 William Street, New York, the Kuhn Loeb building. Throughout the early post-war period, the firm was a small office of 20 employees. In 1966, E.M. Warburg merged with Lionel I. Pincus & Co, forming a new company that eventually became known as E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. In 1965, when Eric Warburg retired to Germany, control was handed to Lionel Pincus, a partner in the Ladenburg Thalmann investment bank, and the working language of the office switched from German to English. Pincus ran the company from 1966 to 2002, and died in 2009.
Warburg Pincus began investing in Europe in 1983 and opened its first office in Asia in 1994. It has invested more than $5 billion in Europe; more than $3 billion in India and more than $3.3 billion in China. The firm is headquartered in New York and has offices in Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Mumbai, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore, with administrative offices in Amsterdam, Luxembourg and Mauritius.
The firm is structured as a global partnership led by co-presidents Charles Kaye and Joseph Landy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_Pincus#Founding_and_early_history
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=929408&tc=7&b=2
#6733887 at 2019-06-12 16:05:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8612: Shill Team 6 Can't Out Flank Anons Edition
CrowdStrike IPO: 5 things to know about the cybersecurity unicorn
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is set to be valued at nearly $7 billion, joining a surge of 2019 tech initial public offerings by companies that have commanded huge valuations from private investors but have largely lacked cybersecurity offerings.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based cybersecurity company late Tuesday priced its IPO at $34 a share, to raise more than $700 million. The price is far above the high end of its $28-to-$30 range that had already been raised from the original $19-to-$23 range.
CrowdStrike CRWD, +67.94% offered 18 million shares with underwriters receiving an option on an additional 2.7 million shares. Should those options get exercised, that would give CrowdStrike 199.4 million outstanding shares, which at $34 a share would give the company a valuation of $6.8 billion.
Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays are listed among the underwriters.
The market valuation increased significantly Wednesday, as the stock rocketed at its open on the Nasdaq exchange. The first trade was at $63.50, or 87% above its IPO price, at 11:28 a.m. Eastern. It has since pared gains slightly to be up 76% in midday trading.
CrowdStrike will follow a spate of so-called unicorns joining the public markets from Silicon Valley this year, a Wall Street parade that has included Uber Technologies Inc. UBER, -0.97% , Lyft Inc. LYFT, +0.22% , Pinterest Inc. PINS, +3.29% and Zoom Video Communications Inc. ZM, +4.03% .
Cybersecurity offerings have slowed down this year, though. So far, only one other cybersecurity company has gone public in 2019, Tufin Software Technologies Ltd. TUFN, -1.10% , and that was a small offering compared with the security IPOs of 2018. Last year, Carbon Black Inc. CBLK, +3.32% went public around this time, with shares pricing at $19 apiece and surging 26% on their first day of trading. The stock price spent the past eight months below its IPO price, briefly breaking above $19 in mid-May, and was last down 5% at $15.68. Cybersecurity companies Zscaler Inc. ZS, +0.04% and Tenable Holdings Ltd. TENB, +1.27% also went public in 2018.
Over the past 12 months, the ETFMG Prime Cyber Security HACK, -0.01% has crept up 2.2%, only slightly better than the 1.1% gain by the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.52% and the 2,1% gain by the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.33%
Here are five things to know about CrowdStrike from its SEC filing.
A unicorn that was ready to go
Founded in 2011, CrowdStrike has raised $481 million to date, most recently with a $200 million round in June that gave the company a valuation of about $3 billion. Back in September, CrowdStrike Chief Executive George Kurtz had told MarketWatch that the company was at a size and scale that it could go public at any time.
Dual-class shares give VCs and CEO control
CrowdStrike will offer class A shares, which will have one vote each, while giving insiders class B shares, which will have 10 votes a share. As of Jan. 31, 458 stockholders own 178.7 million of the Class B shares outstanding.
The largest Class B holders are Warburg Pincus, with Joseph Landy on the board, owning 30.3% of the company ahead of the IPO; Accel, with Sameer Gandhi on the board, owning 20.3%; CapitalG, owning 11.2%; and CrowdStrike CEO Kurtz, owning 10.5%.
Losses remained steady as revenue nearly doubled
CrowdStrike reported a loss of $140 million on revenue of $249.8 million for the year ended Jan. 31, compared with a loss of $141.3 million on revenue of $118.6 million the previous year. That revenue jump was fueled by subscriptions, with CrowdStrike reporting subscription revenue of $219.4 million for the most recent year, compared with $92.6 million for the previous year, as the number of subscription customers doubled to 2,516 from 1,242.
Plenty of competition in a hot field
CrowdStrike prides its Falcon security platform as the "first multi-tenant, cloud native, intelligent security" Software-as-a-Service platform, but it deals in a crowded security marketplace.
According to CrowdStrike, competitors include McAfee Inc. and Symantec Corp. SYMC, +0.98% which offer traditional antivirus protection; alternative endpoint security providers such as Carbon Black and privately held Cylance Inc.; and network security providers like Palo Alto Networks Inc. PANW, +1.23% and FireEye Inc. FEYE, -0.14% .
Sales and marketing expenses are considerable but falling vs. revenue
In the year ended Jan. 31, 2017, CrowdStrike reported sales and marketing costs of $53.7 million, more than the revenue of $52.7 million it took in for its 450 subscribers that year. Since then, sales and marketing costs ate up 88% of revenue the next year, and then 69% in the most recent year.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/crowdstrike-ipo-5-things-to-know-about-the-cybersecurity-unicorn-2019-05-14