# Lookout

> Lookout is a San Francisco-founded cybersecurity company focused on mobile endpoint security and threat intelligence for enterprises and government agencies. Built on one of the world's largest mobile security datasets - hundreds of millions of devices and apps - Lookout detects phishing, smishing, malicious apps, device compromise and social-engineering attacks that target the smartphones people use for work. After divesting its consumer business in 2023 and its cloud SSE business to Fortra in 2025, Lookout is now a pure-play enterprise mobile security vendor led by CEO and Chairman Jim Dolce.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** John Hering (Co-founder, former CEO, Executive Chairman), Kevin Mahaffey (Co-founder, former CTO), James Burgess (Co-founder, former COO/CIO)
- **Team size:** ~520 employees
- **Products:** Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security, Lookout Smishing AI, Lookout Threat Intelligence, Mobile Threat Defense - Executive Impersonation Protection
- **Notable:** Built one of the world's largest mobile security datasets, spanning hundreds of millions of devices and apps., Grew to 2,000+ enterprise and government customers., Launched the industry's first AI-powered solution to combat SMS phishing (Smishing AI) in 2025.

## Products & services

- **Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security** — Mobile threat defense (MTD) protecting smartphones and tablets against phishing, malicious apps, device compromise, network attacks and vulnerabilities across managed and BYOD fleets.
- **Lookout Smishing AI** — AI-powered protection against SMS phishing that uses large language models to evaluate the intent and context of messages from unknown senders, catching social-engineering attacks that lack malicious links. Opt-in and privacy-preserving.
- **Lookout Threat Intelligence** — Research and data feeds derived from one of the world's largest mobile security datasets, used by enterprises, governments and other security vendors to understand mobile threats and APT campaigns.
- **Mobile Threat Defense - Executive Impersonation Protection** — Proactive detection of executive-impersonation and SMS phishing attacks targeting high-value employees.

## Achievements

- Built one of the world's largest mobile security datasets, spanning hundreds of millions of devices and apps.
- Grew to 2,000+ enterprise and government customers.
- Launched the industry's first AI-powered solution to combat SMS phishing (Smishing AI) in 2025.
- Successfully repositioned from a consumer antivirus app to a pure-play enterprise mobile security company.
- Raised roughly $562M from top-tier investors including a16z, Accel and Deutsche Telekom.
- Discovered and published research on major mobile threats and nation-state surveillanceware campaigns.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Launched Smishing AI, the industry's first AI/LLM-powered solution to detect SMS phishing by evaluating message intent, delivered as part of Mobile Endpoint Security.
- **2025-05** — Sold its Cloud Security (SSE) business - including CASB, ZTNA and Secure Web Gateway - to Fortra, becoming a pure-play mobile security company.
- **2024-10** — Advanced Mobile Threat Defense with proactive protection against executive impersonation and SMS phishing.
- **2023-04** — Divested its consumer mobile security business to focus entirely on enterprise and government.

## Links

- Website: https://lookout.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lookout
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Lookout
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Lookout
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mylookout

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Last updated: 2026-07-14