Claim: ThousandEyes, a network intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, received a $500K National Science Foundation grant in 2011 and also received a $5.5M investment from Sequoia Capital in the same year.
Evidence: ThousandEyes, Inc. is a network intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Dublin, London, New York, Tokyo, and Austin, Texas. ThousandEyes received a $500K National Science Foundation grant in 2011 to focus on DNS infrastructure troubleshooting. In 2011, Sequoia Capital led a Series A round to invest $5.5M.