Snyk

About Snyk

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Snyk

All products by Snyk reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

SnykAI Security

Developer security platform that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in code and dependencies

From $25/mo8.2/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Snyk

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Snyk's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.8 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Snyk competes with, and how they differ.

wiz.io8.3/10

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 TopReviewed

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GitHub Advanced Security

Bundled 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 Networks8.2/10

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 TopReviewed

C

Checkmarx

Checkmarx 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, Inc.8.1/10

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.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Snyk's history, with sources.

1. Feb 20, 2026Milestone

   CEO Peter McKay announces plan to step down

   After nearly seven years as CEO, Peter McKay announced via LinkedIn he would step down once the board finds an "AI-immersed" successor. He moved to an advisor role in April 2026; CFO Ken MacAskill became interim CEO and founder Guy Podjarny rejoined the board as Chairman.

   theregister.com
2. Jun 24, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired Invariant Labs

   Snyk acquired Invariant Labs, a Swiss AI security research firm spun off from ETH Zurich, adding agentic-AI threat research (MCP vulnerabilities, tool poisoning, runtime detection). Terms undisclosed.

   siliconangle.com
3. Nov 12, 2024Acquisition

   Acquired Probely

   Snyk acquired Probely, a Portugal-based Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) provider, adding runtime API and application vulnerability testing. Terms undisclosed.

   snyk.io
4. Jan 16, 2024Acquisition

   Acquired Helios for $2.9M

   Snyk acquired Helios, a Tel Aviv startup for microservices discovery and troubleshooting, to strengthen its AppRisk platform with runtime data. A later UK Companies House filing disclosed the price as $2.9M.

   calcalistech.com
5. June 2023Acquisition

   Acquired Enso Security for $32.7M

   Snyk acquired Enso Security, a Tel Aviv application security posture management (ASPM) startup founded by former Wix AppSec engineers. A later UK Companies House filing disclosed the price as $32.7M.

   calcalistech.com
6. Dec 12, 2022Funding

   Series G — $196.5M at $7.4B valuation, a 12% cut from Series F

   Snyk closed $196.5M led by QIA (Qatar Investment Authority), with Evolution Equity Partners, G Squared and Irving Investors joining existing investors. The $7.4B post-money valuation was down 12% (-$1.1B) from the September 2021 Series F price — Snyk's first down round.

   techcrunch.com
7. Feb 17, 2022Acquisition

   Acquired Fugue

   Snyk acquired Fugue, a Frederick, Maryland-based cloud security and compliance company, entering the cloud security posture management market. Terms undisclosed.

   globenewswire.com
8. Sep 9, 2021Funding

   Series F — $530M at $8.5B valuation

   Snyk closed $530M ($300M+ primary, remainder secondary), co-led by Sands Capital and Tiger Global — the company's peak valuation to date.

   techcrunch.com
9. Mar 10, 2021Funding

   Series E — $300M at $4.7B valuation

   Snyk closed a $300M round (new capital plus secondary) co-led by Accel and Tiger Global, quadrupling its valuation from the start of 2020.

   techcrunch.com
10. Sep 23, 2020Acquisition

    Acquired DeepCode

    Snyk acquired DeepCode, a Zurich-based ETH spin-off providing AI-powered semantic code analysis; the technology became the backbone of Snyk Code. Terms undisclosed.

    prnewswire.com
11. Sep 9, 2020Funding

    Series D — $200M at $2.6B valuation

    Snyk raised $200M led by Addition, bringing cumulative funding to $450M, nine months after its Series C.

    techcrunch.com
12. 2015Founded

    Guy Podjarny launches Snyk

    Guy Podjarny, fresh off Blaze's 2012 acquisition by Akamai, launched Snyk in 2015 with co-founders Assaf Hefetz and Danny Grander, building developer-first open-source dependency vulnerability scanning out of Tel Aviv and London.

    techcrunch.com