# ProjectDiscovery

> ProjectDiscovery is the company behind Nuclei, a fast open-source vulnerability scanner whose human-readable templates turn detections into inspectable, shareable code. The company wraps that community-built engine and more than 20 related tools in managed enterprise infrastructure, while its newer Neo product uses autonomous agents to test applications, review code, validate vulnerabilities at runtime, and replay fixes. Its wedge is unusual for enterprise security: give practitioners the engine and detection language for free, then charge teams that need scale, workflow, governance, and agentic execution.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Rishiraj Sharma (Co-founder and CEO), Sandeep Singh (Co-founder and CTO), Nizamul Rana (Co-founder), Marco Rivoli (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Nuclei, Nuclei Templates, ProjectDiscovery Cloud Platform, Subfinder, HTTPx
- **Notable:** Won the RSAC 2025 Innovation Sandbox and was named Most Innovative Startup 2025., Won the Black Hat Asia 2025 Startup Spotlight competition., Achieved SOC 2 Type II certification in 2024.

## Products & services

- **Nuclei** — An open-source, template-based vulnerability scanner whose YAML detection logic is readable, customizable and community maintained.
- **Nuclei Templates** — A public, curated detection library covering CVEs, misconfigurations, exposures and other security checks, with internal review and independent validation before merge.
- **ProjectDiscovery Cloud Platform** — Managed attack-surface discovery, vulnerability scanning, asset inventory, reporting, integrations and automation built on the company's open-source stack.
- **Subfinder** — A fast passive subdomain enumeration tool that draws on many external data sources.
- **HTTPx** — A multipurpose HTTP probing toolkit for finding and characterizing live web services.
- **Naabu** — A fast port scanner designed to slot into reconnaissance and penetration-testing pipelines.
- **Neo** — An autonomous security platform for application and API pentesting, attack-surface mapping, code and pull-request review, red teaming, vulnerability triage and regression testing.

## Achievements

- Won the RSAC 2025 Innovation Sandbox and was named Most Innovative Startup 2025.
- Won the Black Hat Asia 2025 Startup Spotlight competition.
- Achieved SOC 2 Type II certification in 2024.
- Built a community of more than 100,000 security professionals and more than 10,000 template contributors.
- Nuclei's GitHub repository has more than 31,000 stars as of September 2026.
- Elastic used ProjectDiscovery Cloud to scan 14,500 assets in under five minutes during the Next.js CVE-2025-29927 response.
- The platform is referenced or recognized by national cyber agencies including CISA, Belgium's CCB, Norway's NSM and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Introduced internal network scanning designed to validate reachable exposures from an attacker-inside-the-network perspective.
- **2026-06** — Published the evolution of Neo from a single agent into plan, execute and verify stages with specialized parallel agents and a verification loop.
- **2026-03** — Reported Neo's first credited CVE discovery, an SSRF issue in the Faraday Ruby HTTP client.
- **2026-02** — Launched, then later closed, an OSS bounty program after low-quality and heavily AI-generated submissions created more maintainer review overhead than value.
- **2026-01** — Expanded asset discovery with TLS certificate signals and deeper correlation of hosts and IP addresses.
- **2025-12** — Introduced Neo in limited release as a cloud-based AI security engineer with isolated sandboxes, memory and enterprise integrations.
- **2025-11** — Introduced credential monitoring for malware-stolen corporate credentials.
- **2025-07** — Released ProjectDiscovery v1.3 with redesigned navigation, a new dashboard and workflow improvements.

## Links

- Website: https://projectdiscovery.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/projectdiscovery
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/pdiscoveryio
- GitHub: https://github.com/projectdiscovery
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@projectdiscovery

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Last updated: 2026-09-24