Dave Palmer is listed as a founder of Darktrace on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
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Dave Palmer
Founder
Dave Palmer is listed as a founder of Darktrace on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
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Quick Facts
- Role Founder
- Company Darktrace
- Country United Kingdom
- Industry AI in Cybersecurity
- Founded 2013
- Known For Darktrace helped popularize self-learning, unsupervised-AI threat detection years before generative AI reshaped the security industry's marketing…
- Last Reviewed Aug 2026
Executive Summary
Dave Palmer is listed as a founder of Darktrace on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
Career Timeline
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2013
Company founded
Darktrace was founded in 2013 per the company profile source on file.
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2013
Development
2013: Darktrace is founded in Cambridge, United Kingdom, by mathematicians and cyber-defense experts backed by Invoke Capital, the investment firm of entrepreneur Mike Lynch.
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2021
Development
2021: Darktrace lists on the London Stock Exchange under ticker DARK.
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2022
Acquisition
March 2022: Darktrace acquires Dutch attack-surface management company Cybersprint for u20ac47.5 million.
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2024
Acquisition
April 26, 2024: Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire Darktrace for approximately $5.3 billion, a 44% premium to its recent trading price.
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2024
Acquisition
October 1, 2024: Thoma Bravo completes its acquisition of Darktrace, delisting it from the London Stock Exchange; Jill Popelka becomes CEO.
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2026
Leadership
January 2026: Jill Popelka steps down as CEO after roughly 16 months; chairman Charles Goodman serves as interim CEO.
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2026
Leadership
March 2026: Ed Jennings is named president and CEO of Darktrace, its third chief executive in eighteen months.
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