Contrast Security builds an Application Security Platform that instruments software to remove security roadblock inefficiencies and enable developers to write and release secure application code faster. The platform embeds code analysis and attack prevention directly into applications, automatically detecting vulnerabilities as developers write code, eliminating false positives, and providing context-specific how-to-fix guidance. Led by CEO Alan Naumann and based in Los Altos, Calif., Contrast partners with AWS, IBM, Google, Microsoft and VMware and counts tens of thousands of developers at large enterprises (including BMW, DocuSign, AXA, Zurich, SOMPO Japan and the American Red Cross) among its users. The company reports rapid customer adoption in APAC and growth in EMEA. Contrast plans to use new funding to expand its business reach further and to pursue strategic opportunities and acquisitions. Contrast Security provides technology that embeds vulnerability analysis and exploit prevention directly into modern software, offering continuous protection across development, operations, and production. Its unified platform includes flagship products Contrast Assess and Contrast Protect, and uses patented deep security sensors that operate inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities and prevent data breaches. In 2018 the company discovered over 1,900,000 vulnerabilities and protected against more than 52,000,000 confirmed application attacks across billions of transactions. Contrast recently launched Community Edition, a free full-strength DevSecOps solution to help small teams building Java applications and APIs defend against common security flaws including the OWASP Top 10. The company intends to use new funding to accelerate technology innovation, expand field operations and international reach, and grow its customer-success team. Led by CEO Alan Naumann and based in Los Altos, California, Contrast has raised $122M to date following the Series D. Contrast Security provides application security technology that enables software to protect itself against cyberattacks. Led by CEO and board chairman Alan Naumann, the company offers patented deep security instrumentation, including products Contrast Assess and Contrast Protect. Those products operate continuously across popular development methodologies and deployment environments — Agile, waterfall, DevOps, cloud, containers and hybrid — to enable accurate assessment and always-on protection without scanning or expensive security experts. The company intends to use recent funding to accelerate technology innovation and pursue global expansion. It also plans to grow its customer-success team to support adoption and deployment. Contrast has raised a total of $54m to date. Contrast Security provides an application security platform that inserts an intelligent software agent directly into application code. The agent distributes thousands of smart sensors that enable applications to self-protect by detecting vulnerabilities and blocking attacks from within. The platform is designed to deliver accurate analysis and protection of an entire application portfolio without scanning or relying on expensive security experts. Led by CEO Alan Naumann and based in Palo Alto, the company intends to use new funding to expand operations and accelerate its capacity to develop, market, sell and deploy its technology. The article reports a $16M Series B financing as the company's current financing event. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$261M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series E

Latest activity

Nov 2021