Overview

• Announced on Aug. 28, the deal adds Onum’s real‑time telemetry pipeline to Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM, with multiple outlets reporting a price of roughly $290 million as formal terms remain undisclosed.
• CEO George Kurtz said Onum will stream high‑quality, filtered data directly into CrowdStrike’s platform to drive autonomous cybersecurity at scale.
• Onum’s stateless, in‑memory architecture performs in‑pipeline detection and filtering, aiming to reduce onboarding friction and give customers more control over security and observability data.
• Vendor and investor materials cite performance gains such as processing up to five times more events, halving storage costs, and speeding incident response by up to 70%, figures not independently verified in the reporting.
• Onum was founded by Pedro Castillo and Lucas Varela and has raised about $40–41 million from Insight Partners, Kibo Ventures, and Dawn Capital, with reports differing on whether the company began in 2022 or 2023.