CrowdStrike To Expand AI Security Portfolio With Deal To Acquire Pangea

The startup, which CrowdStrike is reportedly planning to acquire for $260 million, offers guardrails for GenAI-powered applications.

CrowdStrike has reached an agreement to acquire Pangea, a startup that offers guardrails for GenAI-powered applications, the company announced Tuesday.

The Wall Street Journal had earlier reported the deal, citing a planned acquisition price of $260 million. CrowdStrike’s news release announcing the deal did not mention the terms of the deal.

CrowdStrike Co-founder and CEO George Kurtz spoke about the deal Tuesday during the vendor’s Fal.Con 2025 conference in Las Vegas, saying the planned acquisition aims to enable CrowdStrike to offer “AI detection and response” capabilities.

Pangea is “a leader in the space of protecting AI agents from the browser, application, gateway, cloud [and] in the development pipeline, as well as in production,” Kurtz said during his keynote at Fal.Con 2025.

Kurtz said he has known Oliver Friedrichs, founder and CEO of Pangea, for several decades.

“What he was building [at Pangea], we thought was really special,” Kurtz said.

During CrowdStrike’s Partner Summit 2025, held on Monday at Fal.Con, Kurtz said the massive industrywide adoption of AI is only likely to gain momentum as more agentic technologies become available, creating major opportunities for CrowdStrike and its partners.

“But we can’t be part of the change unless we secure it,” he said. “Securing AI [is] going to be a big part of the future growth opportunity for us and our partners.”

The deal for Pangea comes after CrowdStrike announced plans in August to acquire a startup that provides data pipeline management, Onum, to boost the vendor’s AI-powered Falcon Next-Gen SIEM offering.

For cybersecurity powerhouse Optiv, the planned acquisition of Pangea is “huge for us” as the push to secure AI continues to ramp up, said Scott Goree, senior vice president for partners, alliances and ecosystems at Denver-based Optiv, No. 28 on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 for 2025.

Goree applauded both of CrowdStrike’s recent M&A announcements for advancing the vendor's platform when it comes to AI — spanning AI for security in the case of Onum, and security for AI in the case of Pangea.

“Our customers are needing a guide on that, and that's something that we have depth of expertise in at Optiv,” he told CRN. “To see CrowdStrike make investments there, continue to add modules, continue to get better [on AI] — that fits us very well.”