Darktrace CEO Says ‘Unfounded Criticism’ Is ‘Deeply Frustrating’

Darktrace Plc Chief Executive Officer Poppy Gustafsson said the level of “unfounded criticism” the company comes under is “deeply irritating,” if inevitable for a publicly traded business.

“The thing that I always come back to is that we have 7,400 customers,” she said at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in London on Wednesday. “That means 7,400 CSOs and CIOs that thought, ‘I want to see Darktrace working in our business’. That’s the key indicator for me.”

Darktrace’s shares fell as much as 33% earlier this month after US private equity firm Thoma Bravo said it did not intend to make a ...