Sumo Logic, Inc.

Redwood City, CaliforniaFounded 2010

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Sumo Logic makes the digital world secure, fast, and reliable. The company enables digital organizations to transform massive amounts of data into actionable insights to prevent and remediate modern security and cloud operations challenges.

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Founding Story

Sumo Logic was founded in 2010 by ArcSight veterans Kumar Saurabh and Christian Beedgen. While Sumo Logic remained in stealth mode for two years, it unveiled its cloud-based log management platform with Series B funding of $15 million in January 2012.

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Leadership

Founders

Kumar Saurabh

Co-founder of Sumo Logic. ArcSight veteran who founded the company in April 2010.

Christian Beedgen

Co-founder and CTO of Sumo Logic. ArcSight veteran who founded the company in April 2010 with Kumar Saurabh.

Executive Team

Mark Ties

Chief Executive Officer

Over 20 years of executive experience in financial leadership and operational transformation. Former CEO of Perforce Software (transformed from $50M to $600M+ business), former CFO & COO of HelpSystems, Senior Operating Partner at Francisco Partners. Holds B.S. in Accounting from University of Minnesota and is a CPA (inactive). Based in Scottsdale, AZ.

Christian Beedgen

CTO & Co-Founder

Co-founder of Sumo Logic. ArcSight veteran who founded the company in April 2010 with Kumar Saurabh.

Business Model

Revenue Model

SaaS subscription model based on Cloud Flex Credits for log analytics, monitoring, SIEM, and observability services. Revenue generated through API usage, data analytics, and storage. Introduced Flex Licensing in 2024 with free unlimited data ingest, charging only for data storage and analytics executed.

Pricing Tiers

Essentials

Contact Sales (calculated at approximately $90/month for 1GB/day annual commitment)

Onboard in minutes, AI-driven alerting, ML-powered RCA, hundreds of integrations. Continuous log ingest, unlimited log capacity, up to 50,000 metrics/day, up to 5GB tracing/day, up to 365 days retention, 300/500 real-time alerts for logs/metrics, Standard 8x5 support, optional Premium support.

Enterprise Suite

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Cloud-native SIEM, entity-centric detection, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, UEBA, threat intelligence, 24/7 Enterprise support, complex multi-org support, automation services. Continuous/Frequent/Infrequent/Flex log ingest tiers, SIEM log ingest, unlimited logs/metrics/traces, customer-defined retention, 1000/500 real-time alerts for logs/metrics, P1 24/7 support.

Flex Pricing

$3.14 estimated per TB scanned (as of 2024-2025)

$0 ingest, unlimited users, cloud-scale, unthrottled performance, 100% indexed readily available, DevSecOps single source of truth. Analytics usage profiles: 500-750 scans/GB (ad-hoc investigation), 750-1500 scans/GB (real-time analytics), 1500-2000 scans/GB (enterprise-wide analytics).

Formerly public on NASDAQ under ticker SUMO (September 2020 - May 2023). Taken private by Francisco Partners in May 2023 for $1.7 billion. Currently a private company.