The deep dive · Private · Read November 4, 2026

Everbridge

Software that warns people and coordinates response when emergencies hit, used by about 6,500 organizations. Owned by Thoma Bravo since a $1.8B buyout in July 2024, and hiring remotely.

Everbridge release, Sep 14, 2026; Form 8-K, Jul 2, 2024
Owner
Thoma Bravo bought all shares on July 2, 2024 through its Discover Fund IV. The stock left Nasdaq.
Price
$1.8B, $35 a share raised from $28.60 after another bidder appeared in the go-shop period.
Revenue
$449M in 2023 the last full year reported, up 3.9%. ARR was $416M in March 2024. Nothing published since the buyout.
Watch
Year three of the buyout Bloomberg Law reported a loan of at least $900M was sought to fund the deal. Debt now sits on the company.
AI
Everbridge 360 AI launched Sep 14, 2026 in three editions, with a chat assistant called Advisor.
Liquidity
None for staff now public shares were cashed out at $35. No equity plan details since the buyout are public.
Hiring
30 → 28 remote listings since Oct 10.
01 · The business

Subscriptions to warn people and run the response.

Everbridge sells subscriptions to its critical event management platform: mass notification, risk intelligence, IT alerting (xMatters), business continuity, travel safety, E911 and national public warning for governments. In 2023, 25% of revenue came from public sector customers and about 25% from outside the US and Canada. In Q1 2024, subscriptions were $105.3M of $111.4M of revenue.

Everbridge 10-K for 2023; Q1 2024 results
The moat, in three parts
  1. 1
    Embedded in government warning systems
    Everbridge sells national public warning systems, and public sector customers made up 25% of 2023 revenue. The 10-K names Genasys and Intersec as rivals there.
    Everbridge 10-K for 2023
  2. 2
    Broad suite, one vendor
    Products span mass notification, risk intelligence, IT alerting, crisis management, E911 and travel safety. In 2024 it added Infinite Blue business continuity software, used by four of the Fortune 10.
    CIO Influence, Jul 23, 2024; Everbridge 10-K
  3. 3
    Scale of messaging
    Everbridge says its mass notification sends 5 billion messages a year to 600 million people, for more than 6,500 organizations.
    Everbridge About page, checked Nov 3, 2026
02 · Funding

Every round, and what its terms give away.

Everbridge is private, so there is no share price. What its investors paid, and on what terms, is the closest thing to one.

$1.80B
latest valuation, Take-private buyout Jul 2
$449M
annual revenue, as of Dec 31
+4%
growth, as reported
1,593
employees, as reported

2023 GAAP operating loss $61.4M; adjusted EBITDA $84.9M and free cash flow $50.8M (company measures). Last public figures before the buyout.

Everbridge Q4 2023 results; 10-K for 2023 (1,593 staff, 789 outside the US)
The round
  1. Jul 2
    Take-private buyout$1.80B at $1.80B
    Led by Thoma Bravo (Discover Fund IV). About 100% of the company, if all new shares
    $35.00 a share in cash, about $1.8B. Agreed Feb 2024 at $28.60, raised Feb 29 after a go-shop bidder. Stockholders approved Apr 25, 2024.
    SEC Form 8-K, Jul 2, 2024; Everbridge release, Feb 29, 2024
Round-terms checks
2 flags · last raise 28 months ago
  • Buyout price vs the market$35 a share was about a 62% premium to the 90-day average price before the deal was announced, per the company.Everbridge release, Feb 29, 2024
    Clear
  • How much of the company the last deal soldAll of it. Thoma Bravo owns 100%; Everbridge is a wholly owned subsidiary of Everbridge Holdings, LLC.SEC Form 8-K, Jul 2, 2024
    Flag
  • Time since the last capital eventAbout 2 years 4 months since the July 2024 close. No sale, recap or new investor has been reported.Thoma Bravo portfolio page, checked Nov 3, 2026
    Open
  • Debt-heavy or unusual termsReported: Bloomberg Law, citing unnamed people, said Thoma Bravo sought at least $900M of private credit at about 5.25 points over SOFR. Final terms not public.Bloomberg Law, Mar 4, 2024
    Flag
  • New outside money or insiders only?New outside owner. Thoma Bravo beat a rival bidder in the go-shop by raising its price.Everbridge release, Feb 29, 2024
    Clear
  • Employee liquidityPublic shares were cashed out at $35 in 2024. No staff tender or equity plan terms have been published since.SEC Form 8-K, Jul 2, 2024
    Open
  • Layoffs in the last 12 monthsNo layoff found in company releases or news. Anonymous employee reviews mention cuts but could not be checked, so not used. Last reported cut: 200 jobs in Nov 2022.Boston Globe, Nov 9, 2022; searched Nov 3, 2026
    Open

Clear: checked, nothing found. Flag: found, with the source. Open: could not be checked.

Going public

Taken private by Thoma Bravo on Jul 2, 2024; no relisting reported

02 · The turn

Everbridge's revenue, year by year.

The balance sheet

At the buyout, these converted into cash rights at $35 a share, and holders could demand repurchase. The buyout loan itself is not public.

Convertible notes at the close
$300M
0% convertible notes due 2026
$64M
0.125% convertible notes due 2024
SEC Form 8-K, Jul 2, 2024
03 · Footnote flags

What the record says, and what we think it means.

The fact is the source's. The read, in italics, is ours.

  1. 01
    Good

    A bidding war lifted the price.

    During the go-shop window, a third party bid above $28.60. Thoma Bravo raised its offer to $35.00, about $1.8B.

    Holders of shares or vested awards got 22% more than first agreed. It also shows real buyer interest in the business.

    Everbridge release, Feb 29, 2024
  2. 02
    Neutral

    An activist pushed for the sale.

    In March 2022 Ancora, with about 4% of the stock, urged a sale and said one could fetch over $70 a share. The stock was near $40 then.

    The eventual price was half Ancora's figure. Staff who joined near the 2021 peak likely saw their equity shrink.

    Insurance Journal (Reuters), Mar 17, 2022
  3. 03
    Watch

    Growth had nearly stalled.

    2023 revenue rose 3.9% to $448.8M, and Q4 revenue fell to $115.8M from $117.1M a year earlier.

    Slow growth is a common reason software firms go private. The owner will likely push cost cuts and add-on deals.

    Everbridge Q4 2023 results, Feb 26, 2024
  4. 04
    Watch

    A control weakness was still open at sale time.

    A June 2024 filing listed remediating a material weakness in financial reporting controls among deal risks, plus recent senior management changes.

    Private now, so outsiders cannot see whether it was fixed.

    SEC Form 8-K, Jun 25, 2024
  5. 05
    Watch

    Big layoffs in 2022.

    Everbridge cut 200 jobs, more than 10% of staff, after its stock fell over 80% in a year. It had 1,893 employees then and 1,593 by end of 2023.

    Headcount fell about 16% in a year. No newer cut is reported.

    Boston Globe, Nov 9, 2022; 10-K for 2023
  6. 06
    Neutral

    Head office moved to Virginia.

    The 2023 10-K gave Burlington, Massachusetts. Everbridge's contact page and Thoma Bravo now list Vienna, Virginia.

    Releases since 2025 carry a Vienna dateline. Fine for remote staff; useful context for East Coast roles.

    Everbridge contact page, checked Nov 3, 2026
  7. 07
    Neutral

    Bought Infinite Blue weeks after closing.

    On July 23, 2024 Everbridge bought Infinite Blue, maker of BC in the Cloud continuity software. Price not disclosed.

    A typical buyout move: add products and sell them to the same customers.

    CIO Influence, Jul 23, 2024
  8. 08
    Good

    Every open role is remote.

    All 28 postings on Everbridge's Lever board were tagged remote on Nov 3, 2026, across ten countries, mostly the US and UK. Most are sales roles.

    A sales-heavy board fits an owner pushing growth. Check each listing for travel.

    Everbridge Lever board, checked Nov 3, 2026
04 · Who gets paid most

Sales is paid 36% under market.

Still Remote data, daily since Oct 10
Posted pay against the same level at other remote employers
Compared level by level against 400+ remote employers, then averaged. Number of posted ranges beside each team.
AI and ML listings, Oct 10 to Nov 3
4 → 2−50%
Remote listings, same days
30 → 28−7%

We save every company's roles, pay by team and level, AI share and churn every day, so each month this page can say more. Sparklines use their own scale.

05 · Built for the agentic era?

Can AI agents do business with Everbridge?

We checked the agent payment programs, developer docs and site rules an AI assistant would meet.

Our verdict

Readable, not agent-ready. A full llms.txt, but robots.txt blocks AI training bots and there is no official MCP server.

Still Remote read
LiveAnnounced, not confirmed liveNot foundPartly
  1. Site guide for AI tools
    everbridge.com/llms.txt is live (about 18,700 characters, updated Oct 2, 2026) with an llms.json. xmatters.com has its own.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Yes
  2. Lets AI crawlers read its site
    A Cloudflare-managed block disallows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended and others, and sets ai-train=no. Search and user-fetch bots are not named, so they fall under Allow.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Mixed
  3. An MCP server agents can call
    No official Everbridge or xMatters MCP server found. A third-party gateway lists one built on Everbridge's API; not endorsed by the company.
    Vinkius listing; searched Nov 3, 2026
    Not found
  4. Public API docs
    The API Developer Hub covers authentication, communications, alerting, risk intelligence and travel. Its llms.txt returns 404.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Yes
  5. Its own AI agent
    Everbridge 360 AI Advisor is a chat assistant that suggests next steps. The company says the platform is autonomous when wanted and human-guided when needed; it does not call it an agent.
    Everbridge release, Sep 14, 2026
    Announced
05 · Inside the company

Where Everbridge puts AI to work.

AI and ML job titles, share of open remote listings
Everbridge
7.1%
Every company we track
6.4%
2 of 28 Everbridge listings on Nov 3. Scale 0% to 10%.
  1. 1
    Engineers sent to customers for AI
    With 360 AI, Everbridge offers forward-deployed engineering support to help customers fit AI into their workflows. It says it holds ISO/IEC 42001 certification for AI management.
    Everbridge release, Sep 14, 2026
  2. 2
    Hiring for AI work
    Open roles include a Senior Python, Cloud Infrastructure and AI Engineer and a Senior Software Engineer for backend and AI-enabled work, both remote.
    Everbridge Lever board, checked Nov 3, 2026
06 · What the hiring says

More listings than on Oct 3, most of them in sales.

Remote listings on its board, dailyAxis starts at zero
Listings as the board shows them, so a title posted in several places counts each time. Team counts are open roles, repeated titles once.
15 of 26
roles are sales
3
operations roles, the next biggest team
8
countries named in its remote roles, led by United States
+3
new roles in the last 7 days
07 · Private scenario builder

What has to be true for $1.8 billion to hold?

The starting revenue is Everbridge's own reported figure. A way to think, not a forecast, and not investment advice.

ARR of $416M at Mar 31, 2024, the last figure Everbridge published before the buyout (Q1 2024 results, SEC 8-K).
Reported: +4%.
Competition
Economy
At the Take-private buyout price, about $4 per $1.
$
Worth in two years, in your world
$2.25B
+25% vs the $1.80B Take-private buyout
$450M revenue, growing +4% a year after competition and the economy
Take-private buyout $1.80B
$0$4.32B
Up round territory

At 5x, Everbridge needs $360 million of revenue to be worth $1.8 billion. Your world gets there with $450 million, so the next round likely prices above the last.

Your equity, two years out
$124,985

$100,000 of equity valued at the $1.80B Take-private buyout price would be worth about $124,985 on paper in this world, before dilution from new rounds, taxes and vesting. Private shares only turn into cash at a sale, an IPO or a tender offer.

A way to think, not a forecast, and not investment advice.

SEC Form 8-K, Jul 2, 2024; Q1 2024 results
08 · Where it looks headed

The signals, and which way they push.

  1. Tailwind
    Governments keep buying warning systems.

    Public sector customers were 25% of 2023 revenue, and Everbridge runs national public warning for some countries.

  2. Tailwind
    AI repackaging of the whole suite.

    360 AI launched in three editions in Sep 2026, a natural point to move customers to bigger plans.

  3. Headwind
    Slow organic growth.

    Revenue grew 3.9% in 2023, and Q1 2024 professional services and license revenue fell to $6.1M from $9.5M.

  4. Headwind
    Buyout debt.

    A reported loan of at least $900M at roughly 5.25 points over SOFR means interest eats cash that could fund hiring.

  5. Headwind
    Crowded field on every product.

    The 10-K names rivals per product, including PagerDuty in IT alerting, Dataminr in risk intelligence and AlertMedia in mass notification.

09 · Bold predictions

Where Everbridge ends up, if we had to bet.

Our calls, not facts. Each one is tied to something that already happened, so you can judge the reasoning.

  1. 1

    Thoma Bravo sells Everbridge, to another buyout firm or a larger company, by 2031.

    Likely 72%M&A

    Buyout firms often sell within about five to seven years, and Thoma Bravo invested in 2024. A bidding war in 2024 showed other buyers want it.

    Still Remote read on sourced facts
  2. 2

    Everbridge lists on a stock exchange again by 2031.

    Long shot 16%IPO

    It left Nasdaq in 2024 after years of slowing growth. A relisting would need faster growth than its last public results showed.

    Still Remote read on sourced facts
  3. 3

    Everbridge passes $600M of yearly revenue by 2031.

    Coin flip 50%Revenue

    It made $448.8M in 2023 growing about 4%. Reaching $600M needs either faster growth or more acquisitions like Infinite Blue.

    Still Remote read on sourced facts
  4. 4

    Most Everbridge customers use AI-drafted alerts and summaries by 2031.

    Likely 72%AI

    360 AI already drafts messages and summarizes incidents in every edition. Moving customers onto 360 AI plans is the company's stated direction.

    Still Remote read on sourced facts
  5. 5

    Everbridge keeps its lead in public warning and enterprise alerting through 2031.

    Coin flip 50%Competition

    It serves about 6,500 organizations and many governments. Rivals named in its 10-K are many and well funded.

    Still Remote read on sourced facts

Read by the Still Remote research agent on November 4, 2026 from the sources linked on this page. Facts and scenarios only, not investment advice.