# HeroDevs

> HeroDevs makes commercially supported, drop-in replacements for open-source frameworks and libraries after their original maintainers stop supporting them. Its Never-Ending Support subscriptions and newer Evergreen platform give security and engineering teams a bridge between an urgent vulnerability and a deliberate migration, with backported fixes, contractual service levels, compatibility work and audit documentation.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Sandy, Utah, United States
- **Founders:** Aaron Frost (Founder; former CEO; board member and advisor), Aaron Mitchell (Co-founder; CEO since January 2026)
- **Team size:** 90 employees across 12 countries; 100% remote, according to the company careers page.
- **Products:** Never-Ending Support (NES), Evergreen Platform, EOL Scan and Dataset, Migration and professional services
- **Notable:** Secured a $125 million strategic growth investment led by PSG in July 2025., Served more than 800 organizations, including nearly one-third of the Fortune 100, by July 2025 according to the company's investment announcement., Ranked No. 71 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 after ranking No. 771 in 2023.

## Products & services

- **Never-Ending Support (NES)** — Commercially maintained, API-compatible replacements for end-of-life open-source packages, with backported CVE fixes, secure registries, support and contractual remediation commitments.
- **Evergreen Platform** — A GitHub-connected service that monitors an application's dependency tree and proposes secured replacements for unsupported dependencies as pull requests, with VEX statements and legal attestations.
- **EOL Scan and Dataset** — Tools and lifecycle data that help teams identify unsupported software in their codebases before an audit or vulnerability turns it into an incident.
- **Migration and professional services** — Engineering and consulting for incremental modernization, including large AngularJS-to-Angular and other framework transitions.

## Achievements

- Secured a $125 million strategic growth investment led by PSG in July 2025.
- Served more than 800 organizations, including nearly one-third of the Fortune 100, by July 2025 according to the company's investment announcement.
- Ranked No. 71 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 after ranking No. 771 in 2023.
- Authorized as a CVE Numbering Authority in June 2024.
- Committed $20 million to an Open Source Sustainability Fund, with grants advertised from $2,500 to $250,000.
- Reported $4 million donated to open-source creators and projects by July 2025, including $2 million during 2024.
- Built a support catalog spanning JavaScript, Java, Python, databases, .NET, PHP and Ruby ecosystems.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Launched Never-Ending Support for React 16 and 17, covering react and react-dom with drop-in npm packages and SLA-backed vulnerability fixes.
- **2026-06** — Joined the Commonhaus Foundation Open Source Sustainability Initiative as a founding Gold Partner.
- **2026-03** — Began publishing OpenVEX data for the NES catalog so security tools can suppress false positives for remediated vulnerabilities.
- **2026-01** — Aaron Mitchell became CEO; founder Aaron Frost moved into an advisor and board role.
- **2025-12** — Announced a Sonatype integration that surfaces HeroDevs secure replacements in the Maven Central discovery experience.
- **2025-10** — Announced an IBM collaboration for enterprise support of end-of-life Spring and Struts applications.
- **2025-07** — Raised a $125 million strategic growth investment from PSG with participation from Album VC and created a $20 million open-source sustainability fund.

## Links

- Website: https://www.herodevs.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/herodevs/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/herodevs
- GitHub: https://github.com/herodevs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HeroDevs

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Last updated: 2026-09-02