[1] The company designs and produces programmable network switch silicon, systems and software.

The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital.

The company's co-founders are Nick McKeown, Martin Izzard, Pat Bosshart, and Stefanos Sidiropoulos.

[3][4] The company also announced a third round led by Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Dell, and Google.

Running on commodity servers, Barefoot Deep Insight interprets, analyzes and pinpoints a myriad of conditions that can impede packet flow, and does so in real time and at line-rate.