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FOSSA

Open source management platform

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Enterprise
  • SaaS
  • Cyber Security
  • DevOps
Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Company mission

To make open source ubiquitous, risk-free, and exponentially more valuable.

Top investors

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-16% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

FOSSA (Free Open-Source Software Auditing) provides companies an open-source management platform for identifying open-source components in a company’s source code. This helps companies avoid potentially costly licensing infringements, and steer clear of vulnerabilities.

The developer cybersecurity market is a multi billion industry, and FOSSA has made strong headway into it since being founded in 2015. It has secured Uber, Verizon, and UiPath among its high-profile customer base. This is perhaps because FOSSA’s proposition truly seems win-win: developers receive guidance on the best open-source software, and companies shore themselves up against cyberthreats, non-compliance fines, and litigation.

FOSSA’s investment round success has begun modestly compared with more mature competitor Snyk, or the hefty seed funding of startup Apiiro. Nevertheless, its impressive client roster, combined with a new product release, suggests it is well on track to benefit from an anticipated boom in cybersecurity.

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Benefits

  • We provide full medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • We have an unlimited PTO policy (and we expect you to use it)
  • We are flexible to working where and when team members need to
  • We help real companies solve some of their hardest problems
  • We get together and get away on a regular basis

Company values

  • Our team is human
  • Our team is scrappy
  • Our team is deliberate

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2020

$23.2m

SERIES B

Sep 2019

$8.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $33.9m

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Leadership

After graduating from UC Berkley with a degree in Computer Science, Kevin was a Platform Engineer for Cloudera, which aimed to transform complex data into actionable insights. They were a Creator at TLDRLegal and Advisor at OSS Capital before founding FOSSA.

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