Snyk, the global leading developer security firm announced that it has raised $75 million in Series F Funding round from Atlassian Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Snyk is committed to advancing developer security through equipping millions of development partners to build security early on without sacrificing the speed that their business needs to compete successfully. It pushes the value of the company to $8.6 billion, and the capital total to $850 million, more than 10% of which come directly from Atlassian Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
In close collaboration with Snyk, Atlassian, and Salesforce are have aim to facilitate the identifying, fixing and monitoring vulnerabilities in their existing workflows for the global developer population – estimated at 26.2 million by 2020 and expected to reach 43.2 million by 2025.
“For Atlassian and Salesforce, this investment in Snyk is more than just capital. Like Snyk, these two industry leaders are fiercely committed to empowering developers to embed security into the entire application. We are humbled by their true, long-term commitment to evolving the legacy security industry through a developer-led approach,” said Peter McKay, CEO, Snyk.
“The desire to do things differently inspires us, and Snyk is reinventing the way organizations think about security. They are a vital part of our ecosystem, tightly integrated into our core products. We’re thrilled to further support their journey and together increase the millions of developers that benefit from their work,” said Chris Hecht, Head of Corporate Development, Atlassian.
“As an early investor since the company’s Series B, we are excited to deepen our partnership and continue to support Snyk as the leader in developer security. Snyk’s vision to empower developers to drive greater agility and digital transformation resonates, and we are excited to support them as both an investor and customer,” said Alex Kayyal, SVP & Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures.
