{
 "company": "sqreen",
 "as_of": "2026-10-05",
 "choices": [
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p01",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Starting problem",
   "statement": "The founders chose application protection after working on offensive security at Apple.",
   "event_date": "2015",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g01",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Inbound acquisition",
   "statement": "Early employee Lucas Masson recalled that technical content already generated inbound leads when he joined.",
   "event_date": "2017",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ3"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g02",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Customer analysis",
   "statement": "Masson organized sales-stage metrics and examined who bought and why.",
   "event_date": "2017",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ3"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g03",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Initial segment",
   "statement": "Repeat CTOs at B2B SaaS startups emerged as an early customer niche in Masson's account.",
   "event_date": "2017",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ3"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g04",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Customer contact",
   "statement": "During YC the US team collected feedback during the day and passed it to engineering in Paris.",
   "event_date": "2018",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ3"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g05",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Market expansion",
   "statement": "More mature US security programs exposed gaps in an offer first suited to Series A and B startups.",
   "event_date": "2018",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ3"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p02",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Deployment",
   "statement": "Sqreen embedded monitoring agents inside running applications.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p03",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Detection",
   "statement": "Agents gathered application security data to identify potential threats in real time.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p04",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Protection",
   "statement": "The offering included runtime application self-protection modules.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p05",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Filtering",
   "statement": "The offering included an in-application web application firewall.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p06",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Account security",
   "statement": "Account takeover protection was among the offered modules.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p07",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Activation",
   "statement": "Betouin said protection modules could be activated without a new engineering or operations intervention.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p08",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Configuration",
   "statement": "The company described automatic adaptation to the application stack.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g06",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Buyer",
   "statement": "Sqreen targeted startup CTOs or engineering heads responsible for security without specialist teams.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g07",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Second buyer",
   "statement": "A second buyer group ran security at midsize and larger digitally native companies.",
   "event_date": "2019-04-02",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g08",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Sales staffing",
   "statement": "After its Series A, Sqreen hired experienced US sales leadership, according to Masson. This is established retrospectively by the acquisition period.",
   "event_date": "2021",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ3"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g09",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Sales practice",
   "statement": "Deal reviews, forecasts and qualification methods became part of the sales operation. This is established retrospectively by the acquisition period.",
   "event_date": "2021",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ3"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-g10",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Exit choice",
   "statement": "Betouin described considering a further financing round before choosing Datadog's offer.",
   "event_date": "2021",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "SQ1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p09",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Combined offering",
   "statement": "Datadog described Sqreen as combining application protection, threat monitoring and security testing.",
   "event_date": "2021-04-12",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "company_described_offering",
   "sources": [
    "SQ4"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sqreen-p10",
   "business": "Application security",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Platform direction",
   "statement": "Datadog planned to combine Sqreen with its observability and security platform; this was an acquisition intention, not evidence of completed integration.",
   "event_date": "2021-04-12",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "announced_plan",
   "sources": [
    "SQ4"
   ]
  }
 ]
}