
He helped turn Checkmarx from a two-person venture into a $1.15 billion software-security company. For Emmanuel Benzaquen, the more revealing ambition was to build something that would last.

JFrog’s co-founder built a business around the software most people never see. His story runs from an unlikely investor pitch to a public company, with a stubborn belief that the people you hire early decide what happens next.
The code is open. The upkeep has a bill. From Heartbleed to Kubernetes and AI agents, the Linux Foundation turns a shared dependency into a shared responsibility.

He built Move to give digital assets the rules that physical objects already have. After taking that idea from Meta to Sui, the engineer has turned back toward the problem that started his career: finding flaws before anyone can use them.

After three decades in B2B technology, the HeroDevs CMO has reduced her operating philosophy to a clean test: keep what works, remove what does not, and never lose the people inside the system.

After building infrastructure at AWS and Databricks, the Depthfirst CEO is betting that security software should understand the system, prove the risk and arrive with a fix.