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BlueCat Networks

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.

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About

Company site: bluecatnetworks.com

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 & Services

Company site: bluecatnetworks.com

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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Integrity

DDI platform

Company describes it as a full-stack, API-first platform for unified DNS, DHCP and IP address management.

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Micetro

DDI orchestration

Company describes Micetro as integrated and orchestrated DNS, DHCP and IPAM to manage and optimize on-premises, cloud and branch networks through a web interface.

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LiveNX and LiveWire

Network observability

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.

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Funding & Investors

Announced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.

  1. Private equity control investment (controlling stake; Madison Dearborn Partners exited)

    Jun 23, 2022

    Investors: Audax Private Equity

Latest: Private equity control investment (controlling stake; Madison Dearborn Partners exited) · Jun 23, 2022

Partnerships

Publicly announced partnerships.

Cisco

Cisco SolutionsPlus alliance putting BlueCat DDI on Cisco's Global Price List, with integrations such as BlueCat Edge with Cisco Umbrella (2023).

Equinix

Partnership delivering BlueCat Integrity as hosted DDI on Equinix Network Edge for hybrid and multicloud environments.

Recent News

  1. Feb 10, 2026Product

    BlueCat introduces BlueCat Horizon, a SaaS-first intelligent NetOps platform for cross-domain network operations

    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.

  2. Jan 28, 2026Acquisition

    Audax Private Equity explores sale of BlueCat Networks

    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.

  3. Oct 3, 2024Acquisition

    BlueCat enters agreement to acquire LiveAction to broaden its portfolio of network infrastructure management solutions

    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.

People

Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.

Stephen Devito

Chief Executive Officer, Director

Kevin Shone

Chief Financial Officer

Scott Fulton

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Andrew Wertkin

Chief Strategy Officer, Board Observer

Technology Focus

Company site: bluecatnetworks.com

Terms the company uses about its own work.

DDINetwork observabilityProtective DNS

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