Socket (Series B)
Funding Details
Awarder
Inbox
Date Award
October 22, 2024
Vertical
Software Security
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
Market
Software Development
Location
Stanford, California, United States
Coinvestors
Andreessen Horowitz, Elad Gil, Jerry Yang, Bret Taylor, Jeff Lawson, Tobias Lütke
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.

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