GitGuardian

GitGuardian started in November 2017 with two passionate engineers who wondered if they could find secrets (API keys, authentication tokens, passwords) leaked on public GitHub. And they did!

From that...

August 24, 2018: ~2M$ Seed round led by Fly Ventures, with notable participation from Solomon Hykes (Docker co-founder), and Scott Chacon (GitHub co-founder).

January 11, 2019: Fred Hutchinson is our first customer, even before the product is launched! It’s a 28k$ deal. Fred Hutchinson is still a GitGuardian customer today.

October 30, 2019: ~10M$ Series A led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors.

December 2021: Series B funding with $ 44M!

September 2022: First U.S. Guardian!

April 2023: 100 Guardians!

September 2023: Opening of an office in Boston.

June 2024: 130 Guardians!

July 2025: Opening of an office in New York, 30 employees in the US!

February 2026: Series C funding with $ 50M!

GitGuardian is the leading platform for code and non-human identities (NHIs) security, especially in the era of agentic AI.

As companies and developers connect LLMs and AI agents to their critical systems, NHIs has never been greater.

Our mission is to secure every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and the integration of AI into that lifecycle.

The key problems we solve:

• Agentic AI Security: we protect the AI value chain, from vibe coding to the deployment of autonomous AI agents in production.

• Native integration into AI IDEs: our real-time detection and remediation capabilities are directly accessible by AI development agents and assistants.

• Automated secret detection: Foolproof identification of secrets within source code, CI/CD pipelines, and productivity tools to prevent data leaks.

GitGuardian now protects hundreds of thousands of developers around the world and has established itself as the standard for innovating safely with AI.