# Clint Sharp

> Clint Sharp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cribl, a data infrastructure company valued at $3.5 billion that helps Fortune 500 enterprises route, filter, and control their telemetry data at scale. Before building Cribl, he spent five years as Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk, where he and his co-founders identified the problem that would become Cribl's founding mission: data volumes were exploding, budgets were not, and enterprises needed a vendor-agnostic way to manage what goes where. Under Sharp's leadership, Cribl grew from a 2017 idea to more than $200M in ARR, serving 43 Fortune 100 companies - all while he also briefly served as interim Chief Revenue Officer during a pivotal growth moment.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Cribl
- **Organizations:** Cribl, GOAT Investments
- **From:** Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Business Management, Metropolitan State University of Denver
- **Known for:** Co-founded Cribl, a $3.5 billion data infrastructure company, Grew Cribl to $200M+ ARR with 163% compound annual growth rate over four years, Cribl serves 43 Fortune 100 and 130 Fortune 500 companies

## Career timeline

- **1997-1999** — Network Engineer at Internet Partners of America (OneMain.com)
- **1999-2002** — Director of Networking and Chief Software Architect at Prophetline, Inc (SpectrumRetail)
- **2002-2003** — Founder and Senior Partner at Aggregate Technology Solutions, LLC
- **2006-2012** — Led application operations at Cricket Communications (Leap Wireless)
- **2012-2017** — Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk, led Splunk Cloud and big data product efforts
- **2017** — Co-founded Cribl alongside brothers Dritan and Ledion Bitincka
- **2019** — Cribl raised seed round from CRV
- **2021** — Cribl raised $200M Series C; company reaches rapid ARR growth
- **2022** — Cribl's Series D round
- **2023** — Cribl surpasses $100M ARR, one of fastest infrastructure companies to do so
- **2024** — Took on interim CRO role after Q1 miss; Cribl closed $319M Series E at $3.5B valuation; reached $200M ARR
- **2025** — Cribl ranked #37 on Forbes Cloud 100; named to America's Best Startup Employers; 43 Fortune 100 customers
- **2026** — Appeared on CNBC Fortt Knox discussing AI strategy and cloud-native data infrastructure

## Achievements

- Co-founded Cribl, a $3.5 billion data infrastructure company
- Grew Cribl to $200M+ ARR with 163% compound annual growth rate over four years
- Cribl serves 43 Fortune 100 and 130 Fortune 500 companies
- Ranked #37 on Forbes Cloud 100 (2025)
- Named to America's Best Startup Employers 2025
- Raised $319M Series E led by GV (Google Ventures), total funding over $590M
- Co-founded GOAT Investments to back early-stage entrepreneurs
- Primary financial backer (with wife Melanie) of Jessi's House in Fort Smith, Arkansas - transitional housing for LGBTQ youth

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Appeared on CNBC Fortt Knox discussing how customers want an agentic AI strategy but legal and security teams aren't ready, pitching cloud-native lakehouses and elastic compute where CPU/GPU scaling moves 1:1 with agent rollout.
- **2025-01** — Cribl officially crossed $200M in annual recurring revenue, confirmed exclusively by Fortune.
- **2025-01** — Cribl ranked #37 on Forbes Cloud 100 and named to America's Best Startup Employers 2025.
- **2024-08** — Cribl closed $319M Series E at $3.5B valuation, led by GV and CapitalG. Customers purchasing multiple Cribl products increased 275% year-over-year.

## Links

- Website: https://clintsharp.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintsharp/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/clintsharp

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Last updated: 2026-05-27