Endor Labs

Security for AI also known as Endor Labs, Inc.

Market readinessHow well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence. Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
DefensibilityHow well the company holds its position if competitors catch up on features, scored across seven dimensions against public evidence. Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure.
Founded 2021
Funding $163M
Last updated 2026-07-09

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Executive Summary

Endor Labs sells application security to enterprise security teams, and its platform cuts the flood of dependency alerts by tracing whether a flagged vulnerability can actually be reached and run in a customer's code. A newer feature inventories the open-source AI models a team pulls from Hugging Face and scores their risk. Named customers include OpenAI, Rubrik, Atlassian, Dropbox, and Snowflake, and Endor reports 30x revenue growth since 2023 on $163 million raised, plus a Gartner Visionary placement it displays on its site. A funded rival could rebuild both the scanning and the model scoring, so what a competitor cannot quickly take is the named install base and the scanning context wired into those pipelines, a head start rather than a durable moat.

Sourced Details

Description Endor Labs is an application security company whose reachability-based platform analyzes open source dependencies, code, and pipelines to cut alert noise, and whose AI Model Discovery line inventories and scores open source AI models from Hugging Face. [f1]
Founded 2021 [f2]
HQ Palo Alto, California, USA [f3]
Funding $163M total [f4]
Latest funding Series B ($93M, April 2025, led by DFJ Growth) [f3]

Products

Product What it does
AURI Application Security Platform Reachability-based AppSec platform built on a code context graph over code, dependencies, containers, and services, with SCA, AI SAST, secrets, and agentic remediation for evidence-backed findings.
Endor Labs AI Model Discovery Discovers open source AI models from Hugging Face and scores them across security, activity, popularity, and operational integrity so teams can make informed model-usage decisions.

Matrix Coverage

AI Defense Matrix

GovernIdentifyProtectDetectRespondRecover
AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain.
AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices.
AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD.
AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic.
AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes.
Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning.
Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history.
AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools.

Endor Labs AI Model Discovery discovers open source AI models from Hugging Face and scores them across security, activity, popularity, and operational integrity to surface model risk. This capability is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f5]

Cyber Defense Matrix

IdentifyProtectDetectRespondRecover
Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware.
Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices.
Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths.
Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks.
Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data.

The AURI platform builds a code context graph over code, dependencies, container images, and services, and applies reachability analysis, SCA, AI SAST, and agentic remediation to conventional applications and pipelines. This application-security work is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f6]

Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

Established 28 /40 Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
Dimension Score
Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. 3/5
Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. 3/5
Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. 4/5
Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. 4/5
GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. 4/5
Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. 3/5
Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. 4/5
Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. 3/5

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Business Risks
Problem & Market
Product Capabilities
Competitive Positioning
Go-to-Market & Traction
Team & Credibility
Trust Readiness
Competitors

Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how defensible it is against market forces and examining the eight areas behind it.

Defensibility

Contested 13 /21 Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure. reinforce or reposition

Dimension Score
Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. 1/3
Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. 2/3
Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. 1/3
Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. 3/3
Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. 3/3
Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. 2/3
Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. 1/3

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Product Capabilities & AI Advantages
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Pricing Model
Product Delivery & Operations
Earning Customers' Trust
Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning
Team & Execution Capability

Sources

Company Detail Sources (6)
Id Source Tier Accessed
f1 Endor Labs homepage: AI-native application security platform official 2026-06-25
f2 Endor Labs: Our Story, founded in Palo Alto official 2026-06-25
f3 Endor Labs Series B: Palo Alto dateline press 2026-06-25
f4 TechCrunch: Endor Labs lands $93M, total raised $163 million press 2026-06-25
f5 AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping (Endor Labs AI Model Discovery) other 2026-06-25
f6 Endor Labs AURI platform: reachability and code context graph official 2026-06-25
Profile Analysis Sources (10)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Endor Labs homepage: customer logo wall and Gartner Visionary banner
“World-class teams choose Endor Labs. The customer logo wall names Atlassian, Cursor, Dropbox, Glean, Robinhood, and Zebra. Endor Labs named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security.”
official 2026-06-25
s2 Endor Labs AURI platform: reachability and code context graph
“AURI's proprietary code context graph combines deep program analysis, proprietary threat intelligence, and agentic AI reasoning to deliver evidence-backed findings instead of alert noise. Reachability determines whether a known vulnerability in a dependency is actually invocable.”
official 2026-06-25
s3 Endor Labs documentation: Secure AI Coding and model discovery
“AI models and machine learning components have become integral parts of modern software development. Install ready-to-use Endor Labs security agents in your AI coding assistant.”
official 2026-06-25
s4 AI Defense Matrix Catalog: Endor Labs AI Model Discovery mapping
“Discovers open-source AI models from Hugging Face and scores them across security, activity, popularity, and operational integrity to surface model risk.”
other 2026-06-25
s5 TechCrunch: Endor Labs lands $93M, total raised $163 million
“The Series B brings the startup's total capital raised to $163 million. Endor now protects more than 5 million applications and runs over a million scans each week for customers including OpenAI, Rubrik, Snowflake, and Dropbox. 30x annual recurring revenue growth since our Series A in 2023.”
press 2026-06-25
s6 Endor Labs: $93 million Series B led by DFJ Growth, named customers
“Endor Labs today announced its oversubscribed $93 million Series B funding round led by DFJ Growth, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, and Citi Ventures.”
press 2026-06-25
s7 Endor Labs: Our Story, founders and Palo Alto founding
“2021 Founded in Palo Alto, CA. Our founders, Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, are successful serial entrepreneurs who faced these challenges when they were leading Prisma Cloud through its hypergrowth phase at Palo Alto Networks.”
official 2026-06-25
s8 Endor Labs blog: clean SOC 2 Type I audit result
“We're excited to announce we have received a clean audit result on our SOC2 Type 1 certification. The successful completion of this SOC 2 Type I audit confirms our commitment to security and privacy.”
official 2026-06-25
s9 Endor Labs Trust Center: live behind Cloudflare human verification
“trust.endorlabs.com. Performing security verification. This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots.”
official 2026-06-25
s10 Endor Labs customer case study: Cursor noise reduction
“Cursor. 97.5% noise reduction. Travis McPeak, Security, Cursor (Anysphere). Endor helps us do it quickly so we can deliver the most secure AI product possible.”
official 2026-06-25
Deep-Dive Sources (10)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Endor Labs homepage: customer logo wall and Gartner Visionary banner
“World-class teams choose Endor Labs. The customer logo wall names Atlassian, Cursor, Dropbox, Glean, Robinhood, and Zebra. Endor Labs named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security.”
official 2026-06-25
s2 Endor Labs AURI platform: reachability and code context graph
“AURI's proprietary code context graph combines deep program analysis, proprietary threat intelligence, and agentic AI reasoning to deliver evidence-backed findings instead of alert noise. Reachability determines whether a known vulnerability in a dependency is actually invocable.”
official 2026-06-25
s3 Endor Labs documentation: Secure AI Coding and Agent Kit
“AI models and machine learning components have become integral parts of modern software development. Install ready-to-use Endor Labs security agents in your AI coding assistant.”
official 2026-06-25
s4 AI Defense Matrix Catalog: Endor Labs AI Model Discovery mapping
“Discovers open-source AI models from Hugging Face and scores them across security, activity, popularity, and operational integrity to surface model risk.”
other 2026-06-25
s5 TechCrunch: Endor Labs lands $93M, total raised $163 million
“The Series B brings the startup's total capital raised to $163 million. Endor now protects more than 5 million applications and runs over a million scans each week for customers including OpenAI, Rubrik, Snowflake, and Dropbox. 30x annual recurring revenue growth since our Series A in 2023.”
press 2026-06-25
s6 Endor Labs: $93 million Series B led by DFJ Growth, named customers
“Endor Labs today announced its oversubscribed $93 million Series B funding round led by DFJ Growth, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, and Citi Ventures.”
press 2026-06-25
s7 Endor Labs: Our Story, founders and Palo Alto founding
“2021 Founded in Palo Alto, CA. Our founders, Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, are successful serial entrepreneurs who faced these challenges when they were leading Prisma Cloud through its hypergrowth phase at Palo Alto Networks.”
official 2026-06-25
s8 Endor Labs blog: clean SOC 2 Type I audit result
“We're excited to announce we have received a clean audit result on our SOC2 Type 1 certification. The successful completion of this SOC 2 Type I audit confirms our commitment to security and privacy.”
official 2026-06-25
s9 Endor Labs Trust Center: live behind Cloudflare human verification
“trust.endorlabs.com. Performing security verification. This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots.”
official 2026-06-25
s10 Endor Labs customer case study: Cursor noise reduction
“Cursor. 97.5% noise reduction. Travis McPeak, Security, Cursor (Anysphere). Endor helps us do it quickly so we can deliver the most secure AI product possible.”
official 2026-06-25

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