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The Check Point office building in Tel Aviv, with green walls

1993Companies

Check Point is founded and ships its FireWall-1 software within a year.

The company starts on 5 July 1993 and sells its first product in April 1994.

The story in numbers.

Here is how it happened.

  • 5 July 1993

    Check Point is founded and spends its first six months with no revenue.

    Its operating costs in those months come to $119,000.

    SourceCheck Point 1997 report

  • April 1994

    FireWall-1 goes on sale as shrink-wrapped software.

    The company's report lists version 1.07 as its first shrink-wrapped firewall product. Revenue starts in the third quarter and totals $794,000 for 1994.

    SourceCheck Point 1997 report

  • 1995 to 1997

    A partnership with Sun carries the early sales.

    SunSoft sells the product worldwide as Solstice FireWall-1. It accounts for 64% of Check Point's revenue in 1995 and 19% in 1997.

    SourceCheck Point 1997 report

  • 28 June 1996

    The shares begin trading on Nasdaq.

    The initial public offering price is $14.00 a share. Revenue for the year comes to $31.9 million.

    SourceCheck Point 1997 report

  • April 1997

    Version 3.0 opens the product to other makers.

    Its OPSEC platform manages other companies' security products from one workstation. By the spring of 1998 more than 140 third-party applications plug into it.

    SourceCheck Point 1997 report

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Revenue grows from $794,000 to $82.9 million in three years.

$ million

19940.794
19959.456
199631.869
199782.934

Source:Check Point 1997 report

More pictures from this story.

  • A tall glass office building on a street corner, with a Check Point sign along its top edge

    Check Point's building in Tel Aviv

Here is why it matters.

Within four years the young company was trading on Nasdaq and reporting $82.9 million in revenue. Its own report counts 14 profitable quarters in a row, starting in the third quarter of 1994.

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Where each fact was read.

Sources read on 1 November 2026.