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Cycode and the art of fixing the right problem
A security alert is easy to produce and surprisingly hard to act on. Cycode has built its business around the missing connections between vulnerable code, the people who own it, and the software that actually runs.
ReversingLabs asks the awkward question: what’s inside your software?
A trusted vendor can still ship an untrustworthy file. ReversingLabs takes finished software apart, giving buyers and builders a way to inspect the bargain before they run it.
The Security Alert That Never Needed Fixing
Endor Labs built a business around a costly question: does the vulnerable code ever run? As AI agents start writing and installing software, that question has moved from the backlog to the developer’s desk.
The Security Scanner That Wants to Finish the Job
Lineaje began with a small heresy: finding vulnerable code is the easy part. Its larger bet is to trace every ingredient, judge the real risk, and send back a repair that does not wreck the build.
The Package Was Fine Six Minutes Ago
Most security tools ask whether a dependency is already notorious. Socket asks a ruder, more useful question: what will this code do after you invite it inside?
Chainguard Put Open Source on a Factory Line - and Made Patching Someone Else's Problem
Most security tools tell engineers what is broken. Chainguard sells them a cleaner starting point - rebuilt from source, stripped of baggage, signed, and continuously patched before the scanner queue becomes the week's agenda.
Aqua Security
Aqua Security is a cloud native security company founded in 2015 that helps enterprises protect containerized and cloud native applications from development to production. Its Aqua Platform is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that combines agent and agentless technology to scan code and images, enforce policies, manage cloud posture, and stop attacks at runtime. Aqua is also the creator of Trivy, the widely adopted open source vulnerability and misconfiguration scanner. Headquartered in Boston and Ramat Gan, Israel, the company protects more than 500 large enterprises and has raised $325M in total funding at a valuation above $1 billion.
Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith is a Belfast-founded, cloud-native artifact management platform that gives engineering teams a single place to store, secure, and distribute software packages and containers across 30+ formats. It acts as a private, fully managed registry with built-in supply chain controls - vulnerability and malware scanning, policy enforcement, quarantine, and global distribution - increasingly positioned around governing the flood of code produced by AI coding agents.
Legit Security
Legit Security is an AI-native Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) company that gives security teams a single platform to discover, prioritize, and remediate risk across the entire software development lifecycle - from a developer's IDE and AI coding assistant to production. Founded in 2020 by three veterans of Israel's elite cyber units, the company consolidates fragmented AppSec findings, cuts false positives with context and reachability analysis, scans for exposed secrets, and now governs AI-generated code before it ships. Legit serves large enterprises including Google, Kraft Heinz, AIG, Freddie Mac, Cboe Global Markets, and ZoomInfo.
Mend.io
Mend.io, formerly WhiteSource, is a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based application security company that helps development and security teams find and fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies, custom code, and AI-generated code. Its platform spans software composition analysis (SCA), static and dynamic testing (SAST/DAST), API security, automated dependency updates via Renovate, and a growing suite of AI security tools. Serving more than 1,000 customers including a quarter of the Fortune 100, Mend.io emphasizes automated remediation - producing exact code fixes rather than long lists of alerts - to help teams reduce security debt without slowing delivery.
OX Security
OX Security is an application security company that built an Active Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform to give development and security teams a single, code-to-cloud view of software risk. Founded in 2021 by Check Point veterans Neatsun Ziv and Lior Arzi, OX consolidates scanning across the software development lifecycle - from source code and open-source dependencies to CI/CD pipelines and cloud - then uses context and attack-path analysis to surface the roughly 5% of vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable and reachable, so teams stop drowning in alerts. The company raised a $60M Series B in May 2025 (total funding around $94-101M) with backing from DTCP, IBM, Microsoft's M12, Evolution Equity, Team8 and others.
Manifest
Manifest is a software and AI supply chain security platform built to answer a deceptively simple question: what is actually inside the software and AI you build and buy? Founded by national security veterans from Palantir and the Pentagon, the company turns Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) and AI Bills of Materials (AIBOMs) from compliance paperwork into a living risk inventory - generating, importing, enriching and monitoring component data so security teams can find vulnerabilities, track open-source and vendor risk, and prove compliance. Manifest serves mission-critical organizations across defense, government, automotive, medical devices, financial services and healthcare, and counts customers such as the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Homeland Security.