Socket (Series B)
Funding Details
- Awarder
- Inbox
- Date Award
- October 22, 2024
- Vertical
- Software Security
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
- Funding Amount:
- $40,000,000
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2020
- Traction
- Socket currently has over 100 customers and protects more than 7,500 organizations, defending 300,000 code repositories and supporting over 1 million developers worldwide.
- Organizations Involved
- Anthropic, Harvey, Figma, Vercel, one of the four biggest banks in the U.S., the largest AI company
- Founders
- Feross Aboukhadijeh
- Company Description
- Socket provides tools to detect security vulnerabilities in open source code, focusing on identifying malicious activity in dependencies and alerting developers during code reviews and dependency updates.
- Market
- Software Development
- Location
- Stanford, California, United States
- Coinvestors
- Andreessen Horowitz, Elad Gil, Jerry Yang, Bret Taylor, Jeff Lawson, Tobias Lütke