Snyk
Headquarters
Boston, MAFounded
2015CEO / Founder
Peter McKayEmployees
1001-5000Funding
Series G — $1.3BProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.2/10Website
snyk.io/
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About Snyk
Snyk is a developer security platform founded in 2015 by Guy Podjarny, Assaf Hefetz, and Danny Grander. Originally based in London, Snyk is now headquartered in Boston. The platform provides vulnerability scanning for code, open-source dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code.
Snyk serves more than 2,500 enterprise customers, including Google, Salesforce, and Citi. The product is widely adopted by developer teams practicing shift-left security.
Snyk has raised approximately $1.3 billion across several rounds, peaking at an $8.5 billion valuation in 2021. Peter McKay serves as CEO.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Snyk competes with, and how they differ.
Wiz focuses on agentless cloud infrastructure security (CSPM, CWPP, CIEM) with broad cloud context, whereas Snyk is developer-centric, embedding vulnerability scanning directly into the SDLC via IDE and CI/CD integrations.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedBundled directly into GitHub's platform with code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency review, competing with Snyk primarily on convenience and pricing for teams already on GitHub rather than depth of vulnerability database.
Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud offers a broader enterprise cloud-native security platform spanning network, cloud, and application layers, sold through a traditional enterprise security sales motion versus Snyk's developer-first, self-serve adoption model.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCheckmarx provides SAST/SCA tooling aimed more at centralized AppSec teams and compliance-driven enterprises, with a heavier on-prem/enterprise deployment history compared to Snyk's cloud-native, dev-tool-integrated approach.
SentinelOne targets runtime endpoint and cloud workload protection via an EDR/XDR platform, addressing production threat detection rather than Snyk's pre-production code and dependency vulnerability remediation.
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