2010 headquarters san francisco ca key people mohit lad ; ceo ricardo oliveira ; cto website www.thousandeyes.com thousandeyes inc. is a network monitoring company based in san francisco ca . the company produces software that analyzes the performance of local and wide area networks . 1 thousandeyes is privately held and backed by venture investors including sequoia capital sutter hill ventures salesforce tenaya capital and gv . contents 1 technology 2 history 3 recognition 4 references technology edit thousandeyes is a software as a service saas product that uses synthetic monitoring probes to measure performance . the product includes elements of network tomography for loss and latency route analytics to visualize bgp advertisements dns monitoring voip monitoring and website monitoring for http and https . 2 history edit the company was founded in 2010 by mohit lad and ricardo oliveira who had worked together in the ucla internet research lab to visualize autonomous system topologies . 3 thousandeyes received a 500k national science foundation grant in 2011 to focus on dns infrastructure troubleshooting . 4 in 2011 sequoia capital led a series a round to invest 5.5 m. 5 the company launched their network monitoring product in june 2013 . 6 in 2014 sutter hill ventures led a series b round joined by sequoia capital and salesforce.com to invest 20m in the company . 7 in 2016 tenaya capital and gv joined a series c round along with previous investors with 35m more in capital . 8 recognition edit thousandeyes was included in the 2014 gartner cool vendors in application performance monitoring and it operations analytics report . 9 forbes placed thousandeyes fourth on the list of the hottest startups of 2014 . 10 references edit moozakis chuck 19 june 2014 . network innovation award thousandeyes multiplies view . techtarget . retrieved 17 march 2015 . banks ethan 11 october 2013 . thousandeyes peers into cloud performance . network computing . retrieved 18 march 2015 . chi ying ju ; oliveira ricardo ; zhang lixia october 2008 . cyclops the as level connectivity observatory . acm sigcomm computer communication review . 38 5 5 13 . retrieved 18 march 2015 . sbir phase ii an integrated solution for global visibility and security of internet services . small business innovation research . retrieved 18 march 2015 . technology portfolio . sequoia capital . retrieved 18 march 2015 . darrow barb 19 june 2013 . thousandeyes sniffs out performance problems on site off site wherever . gigaom . retrieved 18 march 2015 . kepes ben 9 december 2014 . thousandeyes raises 20m series b . forbes . retrieved 18 march 2015 . vanian jason 25 december 2016 . alphabet and salesforce s venture arms just poured millions in this hot startup . fortune . retrieved 25 february 2016 . kowall jonah 29 april 2014 . cool vendors in application performance monitoring apm and it operations analytics itoa . gartner blog . retrieved 18 march 2015 . solomon brian 17 december 2014 . the hottest startups of 2014 . forbes . retrieved 18 march 2015 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title thousandeyes & oldid 706853125 categories networking companies of the united statesnetwork management navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 25 february 2016 at 17 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view