Your quote from the article, is a link to another article, which provides the answer: > The cybersecurity software vendor said in August that it reached $100 m

Your quote from the article, is a link to another article, which provides the answer: > The cybersecurity software vendor said in August that it reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue after selling its product for just a year and a half. So that's 18 months after formal launch. Since we don't have their financial statements, you can only guess wether this is the value of signed deals or a review of actual recognized revenue for those 18 months. I suspect the first.