Cloud & Digital InfrastructureCybersecurityToronto, ON
Toronto company selling enterprise software for core network services — DNS, DHCP and IP address management, known as DDI — combined with network observability, flow and packet analytics and DNS-based security, deployable on-premises, in data centres and across multicloud.
Toronto company selling enterprise software for core network services — DNS, DHCP and IP address management, known as DDI — combined with network observability, flow and packet analytics and DNS-based security, deployable on-premises, in data centres and across multicloud.
Provides solutions for intelligent network operations that unify DNS, DHCP and IP address management with observability, intelligence and security. bluecatnetworks.com ↗
Its own about page and 2026 press boilerplate state it is headquartered in Toronto and New York; its careers page says simply that it is based in Toronto. bluecatnetworks.com ↗
Its Canadian legal contact address is 4100 Yonge Street, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M2P 2B5. bluecatnetworks.com ↗
Audax Private Equity invested in BlueCat in 2022, and Insight Partners remains a minority investor following BlueCat's 2024 acquisition of LiveAction. Financial terms were not disclosed. bluecatnetworks.com ↗
Private Equity Wire, citing Reuters, reported in January 2026 that Audax appointed JPMorgan to explore a sale valuing BlueCat at $1.5B-$2B on revenue over $100M a year; currency not stated. privateequitywire.co.uk ↗
Products BlueCat Networks publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
BlueCat Horizon
NetOps platform
Company describes it as a SaaS-based platform that modernizes how enterprises and mid-market organizations operate, secure and evolve their networks using AI-assisted insights and coordinated action across the network.
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Company describes LiveNX as network performance monitoring from flow, API, SNMP and cloud telemetry, and LiveWire as capturing and analyzing packets. Acquired with LiveAction in 2024.
BlueCat announced Horizon, a SaaS-based platform giving a unified control plane over DNS, DHCP, IPAM, security and observability, deployable in hybrid or multicloud environments, in the data centre, at remote or branch locations and via SD-WAN, with services able to keep running locally via agents and service points.
Private Equity Wire, citing a Reuters report, said Audax Private Equity was exploring a sale of BlueCat Networks that could exceed $1.5 billion, and had appointed JPMorgan to manage the process. BlueCat was described as generating over $100 million in annual revenue, with a potential valuation of $1.5-2 billion. The article does not state the currency.
BlueCat agreed to acquire network observability vendor LiveAction, Inc. from Insight Partners, which stays on as a minority investor. Financial terms were not disclosed and the transaction was expected to close in October.