StackHawk
CEO: Joni Klippert
StackHawk was founded in 2019, and in October closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Sapphire Ventures to put application security in the hands of developers. The Denver-based company currently employs 18 people, according to LinkedIn.
The company spent a year building a strong base of Early Access customers who had automated their application security testing, checking for vulnerabilities on every merge, before launching into general availability in September. The software-as-a-service startup’s platform empowers software engineers to easily find and fix application security bugs before they hit production.
StackHawk leverages the ZAP web application security scanning tool and has focused product development on functionality that serves developer-first security, such as security test automation. The company said its testing approach shortens fix times, pushes potential vulnerabilities to the engineering teams that built the feature, and ensure that vulnerabilities are caught before they hit production.
