# Cyber Company Profiles: Cycode

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## At a Glance

- Website: [cycode.com](https://cycode.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/cycode
- Type: Security for AI, Application Security, Developer Tools
- Market readiness: Established (29/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2019
- Funding: $81M total
- Last updated: 2026-08-04

## Executive Summary

Cycode now centers its pitch on AI-driven software development. It has a longer record in the application security it has run since 2019: named customers such as UBS and NielsenIQ, a 2026 Leader placement in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for software supply chain security, and a code scanner from its 2024 Bearer acquisition credited with 94 percent fewer false positives on a public benchmark, a Cycode result relayed by a reviewer rather than an independent test. It unveiled its AI-development features, including a Maestro orchestration layer, in March 2026. For those features the public record shows no named customer and no outside evaluation. A buyer stays for the application-security depth and the cost of removing a scanner wired into its pipeline, not for the AI layer added months ago.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Cycode secures software development that uses AI coding assistants, giving teams visibility into AI usage across their code and applying governance and guardrails throughout the development lifecycle. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2019 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Tel Aviv, Israel | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $81M total | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series B, $56M (2021) | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Deployment | SaaS, Self-hosted | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Cycode | Cycode: Agentic development security that inventories AI models, MCP servers, and code assistants across repositories and applies IDE and CLI guardrails to AI coding agents. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f6\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Generated Code |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| AI Model |  | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
| AI Orchestration Tools |  | ✓ |  |  |  |  |

Cycode is agentic development security that inventories AI models, MCP servers, and code assistants across repositories and applies IDE and CLI guardrails to AI coding agents. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f7\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

Cycode provides application security posture management and software supply chain security. This conventional security is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

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

**Established (29/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-09. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 4/5 | Cycode names the enterprise code-security buyer, and the 2025 IDC MarketScape and an independent AppSec reviewer establish ASPM and software supply chain security as a defined category, clearing the bar that held the prior 3 when only the AI framing was weighed. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | Proprietary SAST, SCA, IaC, secrets, and container scanning run alongside the Context Intelligence Graph and more than 100 ConnectorX integrations, and an independent reviewer reports 94 percent fewer false positives on the OWASP Benchmark, an outside validation point beyond vendor copy. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | The 2025 IDC MarketScape for ASPM and Gartner's Magic Quadrant coverage of the supply-chain category are two analyst signals that buyers are actively seeking the category. The enabler is enterprise adoption of AI coding assistants from 2024 and the agentic shift of 2025 to 2026. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Co-founders Lior Levy, a former Symantec architect, and Ronen Slavin have led Cycode since 2019 with a board of recognized security operators, verifiable through press, but the founders show no prior exit or sustained publication record. \[[s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 | An independent reviewer names UBS, NielsenIQ, Cribl, and Elastic, CTech reported dozens of customers including Grubhub and Databricks with 7x ARR growth in 2021, and Cycode displays a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader placement for software supply chain security, all on the established appsec product. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | The 81 million dollars raised through a 2021 Series B funded a build since 2019, the Bearer acquisition, and proprietary scanners with visible shipping, but no round has been disclosed since 2021 and revenue is private, so output per dollar cannot be confirmed. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 | ASPM and application security testing are established analyst categories buyers place without coaching, confirmed by the 2025 IDC MarketScape and Gartner's Magic Quadrant coverage, but Cycode's Leader placements are vendor-displayed and the Agentic Development Security Platform label is vendor-coined, which holds it at 4 rather than an independently confirmed 5. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Proprietary scanners, the Context Intelligence Graph, and regulated customers raise replication cost, but Cycode sits in the crowded code and supply-chain slot where GitHub, Snyk, and Checkmarx ship overlapping capability and the adjacent API-security market already consolidated. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Platform vendors such as GitHub with Microsoft, Snyk, or Checkmarx could bundle code scanning, supply-chain security, and AI-code governance into suites enterprises already buy, eroding the standalone ASPM budget line Cycode depends on, the same absorption that consolidated the adjacent API-security market.
- The agentic-development repositioning Cycode unveiled in March 2026, including Maestro and AI guardrails, has no independent customer or analyst validation, so a buyer drawn by the AI pitch is underwriting a months-old story on the strength of the older appsec product.
- Cycode has disclosed no funding round since its 2021 Series B, so a better-capitalized rival entering AI-code security could outspend it on enterprise sales before the new platform earns reference accounts.
- Cycode's strongest capability evidence, the 94 percent false-positive reduction on the OWASP Benchmark, rests on one independent reviewer report, so a contrary public benchmark would undercut the depth claim the positioning depends on.
- The proprietary SAST advantage came from acquiring Bearer in 2024, so an integration stumble or talent loss from that team would weaken the differentiator that separates Cycode from ASPM rivals that only aggregate third-party scanners.

### Problem & Market

Cycode sells to the enterprise security team that owns the code its developers ship, and it frames the problem as securing that code across a supply chain that AI assistants now help write. The company discovers AI code assistants, models, MCP servers, packages, and secrets across the development environment, then governs and applies guardrails to AI tool use. This extends the older problem it has worked since its 2019 founding, protecting source code and DevOps pipelines from theft, leakage, and tampering.

The conventional problem is independently established. The 2025 IDC MarketScape for application security posture management calls ASPM a defined category that has grown crowded enough to confuse buyers, and an independent AppSec reviewer places Cycode in that category beside named scanning capabilities. The pain is concrete: secrets committed to repositories, vulnerable dependencies, and now AI-generated code that legacy scanners were not built to read.

The newer AI-code framing is where buyer-side evidence is thinner. Cycode argues that AI-assisted development outruns the controls built for human-written code and that shadow AI creates blind spots, which is a vendor-stated need rather than a documented buyer search, even as the shift to AI coding tools is widely observed. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

Cycode pairs proprietary scanners with a correlation layer rather than only aggregating other tools. It runs native SAST, SCA, infrastructure-as-code, secrets, and container scanning, the Context Intelligence Graph maps code-to-runtime context and answers natural-language queries, and ConnectorX adds more than 100 integrations to pull in third-party findings.

The AI-development layer adds visibility, governance, and guardrails. Cycode discovers AI code assistants, models, MCP servers, and rule files, enforces policy over AI tool use with AIBOM coverage, and describes AI hooks and an MCP server in the IDE and CLI that intercept prompts and tool calls before sensitive data reaches external AI services. Maestro, introduced with the March 2026 platform, orchestrates agents and turns natural-language questions into structured queries against the graph.

Outside technical validation favors the established scanners over the AI layer. An independent AppSec reviewer reports the native SAST engine achieving 94 percent fewer false positives than competitors on the OWASP Benchmark with 75 percent recall, citing the capability Cycode gained by acquiring Bearer in 2024. The agentic guardrail and orchestration capabilities have no comparable third-party evaluation in the public record. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Cycode competes in two overlapping markets, and its position differs between them. In ASPM and supply-chain security it holds an analyst-recognized place and ships proprietary scanners that set it apart from rivals that only correlate third-party tool output. GitHub with Microsoft, Snyk, and Checkmarx contest the same code-security buyer.

Its analyst recognition is real but mostly self-displayed. Cycode shows IDC MarketScape and Frost Radar Leader placements on its own pages, while the 2025 IDC MarketScape for ASPM independently evaluates 18 vendors in the category. In AI-development security Cycode is a repositioned incumbent rather than a category definer, since the Agentic Development Security Platform label is its own coinage and the inventory and guardrail capabilities overlap with younger AI-native entrants and the same code platforms adding AI-code controls.

The structural question is whether an independent code-security platform survives consolidation. The adjacent API-security market repriced and consolidated into larger platforms, and the same absorption pressure applies to code scanning, where the buyer often already owns a developer platform that could bundle the capability. Cycode's counterweight is proprietary scanning depth and regulated customers whose procurement slows displacement. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Cycode's commercial proof is strong and attaches to the established product. An independent AppSec reviewer names UBS, NielsenIQ, Cribl, and Elastic as customers, and CTech reported at the Series B that Cycode had signed dozens of customers from Fortune 500 enterprises to fast-growing startups, naming Grubhub, Databricks, Copart, and Rapyd and citing a 7x ARR increase over its first three quarters of 2021.

Analyst placement reinforces the traction. Cycode displays a Leader placement in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security, a third-party marker procurement teams weigh, and it displays additional IDC and Frost Radar Leader recognition in its own materials.

The newer AI motion lacks comparable outside proof. No named customer speaks publicly about the agentic capabilities, no independent reporting validates Maestro or the AI guardrails in production, and no revenue or customer total for the AI layer is disclosed, so the AI traction record rests on Cycode's own pages. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Cycode's founders have led the company through its full arc. Lior Levy, a former Symantec solutions architect, co-founded Cycode in 2019 and remains chief executive, and serial entrepreneur Ronen Slavin co-founded it and serves as chief technology officer. That continuity through a Bearer acquisition and a platform repositioning is itself a credibility signal.

The board and investor bench includes cybersecurity founders and investors. Cycode lists Andy Ellis of YL Ventures, Eyal Gruner the founder and chief executive of Cynet, Michael Fey and Dan Amiga of Island, and Jonathan Rosenbaum of Insight Partners, with Insight and YL Ventures as backers. The roster reflects people who have built and funded security companies.

What the public record does not yet show is a prior founder exit or a sustained research-and-publication presence of the kind that lifts the strongest teams in this category. The pedigree is verifiable through independent press and the company's own pages, but it reads as a capable operating team rather than a serially exited one. \[[s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Cycode presents the assurance signals an enterprise code-security buyer expects, which matters because the product reads source code, secrets, pipelines, and now AI tool configurations. Its Security and Trust center names a completed third-party SOC 2 Type II audit, ISO 27001 certification, a CSA STAR Level 1 attestation, and GDPR commitments, alongside a bug bounty program.

An NVD keyword search for Cycode returns no matching CVE records, a limited but favorable signal for a product that holds an organization's source code. The analyst markers it leans on, the Gartner placement and the IDC and Frost Radar Leader badges, are displayed on its own pages rather than offered as directly accessible reports.

The attestations are table-stakes rather than a moat. The trust center describes them rather than offering open downloads, so the actual reports and data-handling terms come through procurement under NDA, and the March 2026 agentic capabilities are recent enough that a security review will likely ask how prompts and code leave the environment, which the public pages do not yet document for the new product. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Snyk | competes with | Developer-security platform spanning SAST, SCA, and supply-chain scanning, contesting the same code-security buyer Cycode sells to. |
| Checkmarx | competes with | Established application-security-testing vendor with SAST, SCA, and ASPM, overlapping Cycode's core scanning and posture-management market. |
| Semgrep | competes with | Code-scanning and AppSec platform with a developer-first SAST motion that overlaps Cycode's native scanning. |
| Salt Security | adjacent | API-security platform in the adjacent code-and-API space that, like Cycode, has layered an AI-agent security framing onto an established product. |
| GitHub | adjacent | Developer platform owned by Microsoft positioned to bundle code scanning and AI-code governance into tools enterprises already buy. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-07-09. Scope: whole company.

Cycode is harder to displace than the self-serve scanner cluster and roughly level with the established appsec incumbents. Its buyers are large Fortune 500 enterprises whose procurement and legal review slow a switch, and its native scanners and Context Intelligence Graph wire into CI/CD, repositories, and the IDE enough that leaving becomes a re-integration project. The edge thins past that. The customer runs software Cycode does not operate as a service, its SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are attestations a rival can also earn, and the graph is a per-customer asset rather than a cross-customer corpus. Cycode is most defensible inside large enterprise accounts, and least defensible where code-platform vendors could bundle AI-code controls into tools those enterprises already own.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Customers buy native scanners, AI guardrails, AIBOM inventory, and Maestro orchestration that they configure and run themselves, software output rather than a service that accepts accountability. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Native scanning embedded in CI/CD, repositories, and the IDE, more than 100 ConnectorX integrations, and accumulated code-to-runtime context in the Context Intelligence Graph make replacement a re-integration project, meaningful friction short of network effects. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | Cycode publishes SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, a CSA STAR Level 1 attestation, and GDPR commitments, all commercial table-stakes assurance that eases procurement without blocking a rival, and no federal authorization or product-specific regulatory mandate appears in the reviewed sources. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Native SAST with cross-file dataflow tracking, SCA, IaC, secrets, and container scanning plus a code-to-runtime graph and real-time AI guardrails sit in program-analysis and machine-learning territory that takes years of specialized work. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | The named buyers are enterprises including UBS, NielsenIQ, and Elastic, with CTech reporting dozens of customers reaching Fortune 500, and the full platform sells only through a quote rather than a paid self-serve tier, so procurement and legal slow replacement. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | Cycode is a platform with application features that scan, score, and gate code across the pipeline and the IDE rather than infrastructure that customer traffic is forced through inline. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 | The Context Intelligence Graph is a per-customer code-to-runtime asset a funded rival can rebuild from the same repositories, the SAST accuracy rests on an acquired engine rather than a named dataset, and no non-public cross-customer corpus appears in the record. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Cycode sells to the enterprise security team that owns the code its developers ship, and it now frames the pain as AI-assisted development outrunning the controls built for human-written code. The company discovers shadow AI, coding assistants, and MCP servers across the development environment, then governs and guards that AI use, positioning the buyer as whoever owns the risk of machine-written code on top of the existing application-security owner.

The named base is enterprise rather than self-serve. An independent AppSec reviewer names NielsenIQ, Cribl, UBS, and Elastic, and CTech reported that since Cycode began selling in 2020 it signed dozens of customers from Fortune 500 enterprises to fast-growing startups. That profile reaches finance, retail, manufacturing, and software buyers whose procurement reviews a purchase rather than small teams adopting a tool on a card.

The segment Cycode added with its March 2026 platform is the team adopting AI coding tools, reachable through the same enterprise relationship. Cycode dates the Agentic Development Security Platform to March 23, 2026 and frames it as extending visibility and governance to AI-driven development, so the new line extends the established ASPM and supply-chain buyer rather than cultivating a separate AI-native market. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Cycode pairs proprietary scanners with a correlation layer rather than only aggregating other tools. It runs native SAST, SCA, infrastructure-as-code, secrets, and container scanning, and an independent reviewer reports the SAST engine from the Bearer acquisition achieving 94 percent fewer false positives than competitors on the OWASP Benchmark with 75 percent recall. ConnectorX adds more than 100 integrations, and the Context Intelligence Graph maps code-to-runtime context across the lifecycle.

The AI-development layer adds visibility, governance, and real-time guardrails. Cycode discovers AI code assistants, models, and MCP servers, enforces policy with AIBOM coverage, and describes AI hooks and an MCP server in the IDE and CLI that intercept prompts and tool calls before sensitive data reaches external AI services. An independent reviewer reports that the Context Intelligence Graph supports natural-language queries, and Cycode describes Maestro as an orchestration engine that activates its purpose-built agents in the right order.

Third-party attention favors the established scanners over the AI layer. The 94 percent figure rests on one reviewer relaying Cycode's own OWASP Benchmark result, and DevOps.com reported that Bearer claims 31 percent faster scanning than rival tools, while the agentic guardrail, AIBOM, and Maestro capabilities carry no comparable third-party evaluation in the record. The durable engineering asset is the acquired dataflow-based SAST, not the reasoning layer. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Cycode runs a demo-led enterprise motion with a self-serve trial at the top of the funnel. An independent AppSec reviewer reports that every commercial tier sits behind a request-a-quote or book-a-demo form, while Cycode publishes a free trial of the full platform and a standalone source-code-leakage module, so the trial generates leads the sales team converts into negotiated enterprise contracts.

The commercial proof is real and attaches to the established product. The same reviewer names UBS, NielsenIQ, Cribl, and Elastic, Cycode displays a Leader placement in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security, and CTech reported dozens of customers reaching Fortune 500 with 7x ARR growth in 2021. That named-reference traction across major enterprises is the strongest signal Cycode carries.

The newer AI motion lacks comparable outside proof. No named customer speaks publicly about the agentic guardrails, AIBOM, or Maestro, no independent reporting validates them in production, and no revenue or customer total for the AI layer appears in the record, so the AI traction depends on Cycode's own pages. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Cycode hides list pricing, which signals a negotiated enterprise sale rather than a self-service purchase. An independent AppSec reviewer reports that every commercial tier sits behind a request-a-quote or book-a-demo form, typical for enterprise ASPM, and that the full Agentic Development Security Platform is sold as an enterprise contract with no dollar amounts published. The hidden price withholds the budget-anchoring signal that self-serve rivals publish.

The free trial is a funnel, not a paid bottom-up tier. Cycode publishes a free trial of the full platform and a standalone source-code-leakage detection module, but the reviewer is explicit that the full platform converts to an enterprise contract, so the trial draws a buyer toward a sales conversation rather than a credit-card upgrade.

What Cycode charges by is not stated in the record. The reviewer expects pricing scaled by seat count, repository volume, and Cycode AI add-ons, which implies modular packaging, but the charged unit stays private behind the quote. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Cycode delivers as a platform the customer configures and operates, not a managed service. Native SAST, SCA, IaC, secrets, and container scanning run alongside ConnectorX integrations and the Context Intelligence Graph, and the customer sets policy and reviews findings rather than handing the work to Cycode analysts. That places accountability for outcomes with the buyer, the same operating model as the pure-software appsec peers.

The AI controls run inline in the developer's tools. Cycode uses AI hooks and an MCP server in the IDE and CLI to intercept prompts and tool calls before they reach external AI services and validates coding-agent outputs before commit, so the AI-development operation sits in the workflow developers already use rather than a separate console. Cycode describes Maestro as orchestrating its purpose-built agents on top of that.

Operational collateral is thin in the record. Published uptime figures, support SLAs, and an independent production review of the agentic layer do not surface, so a buyer evaluating day-two operations for the AI controls relies on the company's description, even as the established scanning has years of enterprise deployment behind it. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Cycode publishes the attestation set an enterprise code-security buyer expects, which matters because the product reads source code, secrets, pipelines, and now AI tool configurations. Its Security and Trust center names a completed third-party SOC 2 Type II audit, ISO 27001 certification, a CSA STAR Level 1 attestation registered with the Cloud Security Alliance, and GDPR commitments, alongside a bug bounty program.

An NVD keyword search for Cycode returns no matching CVE records, a limited but favorable signal for a product that holds an organization's source code, though it does not by itself cover acquired components or non-CVE incidents.

The attestations are table-stakes rather than a moat. The trust center describes each certification and links to further detail rather than posting the underlying audit reports, while publicly setting out data residency choices, retention, sub-processor disclosure, and a data processing addendum. A security review of the March 2026 agentic capabilities will likely ask how prompts and code leave the environment, which the public pages do not document for the new product. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Cycode positions itself as the unifying application-security platform for a development organization rather than a point tool. It frames the product as bringing control, context, and autonomy onto one platform, consolidating native SAST, SCA, IaC, secrets, and container scanning with the Context Intelligence Graph so a buyer can replace fragmented point tools with one vendor. The proprietary scanners are the differentiator against rivals that only correlate third-party output.

Outward, the platform reaches into the developer and AI-agent ecosystem rather than binding to one stack. ConnectorX adds more than 100 integrations across SCM, CI/CD, container registries, and cloud platforms, and the AI guardrails plug into IDEs, the CLI, and MCP servers, so Cycode meets developers and coding agents where they already work.

Inward, the same breadth deepens dependence and exposes the structural risk. Standardizing scanning, bill-of-materials history, and code-to-runtime context on Cycode concentrates a customer's application-security operations with one vendor, yet the buyer often already owns a developer platform like GitHub that could bundle the same capability into tools the customer already pays for. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Cycode's founders have led the company through its full arc, a continuity signal in itself. Lior Levy, a former Symantec solutions architect, co-founded Cycode in 2019 and remains chief executive, and serial entrepreneur Ronen Slavin co-founded it and serves as chief technology officer. They carried the company through the 2024 Bearer acquisition and the 2026 platform repositioning.

The board and investor bench includes cybersecurity founders and investors. Cycode lists Andy Ellis of YL Ventures, Eyal Gruner the founder and chief executive of Cynet, Michael Fey and Dan Amiga of Island, and Jonathan Rosenbaum of Insight Partners, with Insight and YL Ventures as backers. The roster reflects people who have built and funded security companies.

What the public record does not show is a prior founder exit or a sustained research-and-publication record of the kind that lifts the strongest teams in this category. The pedigree is verifiable through independent press and the company's own pages, but it reads as a capable operating team rather than a serially exited one. \[[s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Cycode: ADLC Security, Secure the Agentic Development Lifecycle](https://cycode.com/adlc-security/) | official | 2026-07-09 |
| f2 | [CTech (Calcalist) on Cycode founding and Series B](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923737,00.html) | press | 2026-06-29 |
| f3 | [Tracxn Cycode company profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/cycode/__0mHMTbR3rEjDr318KM3Hn8ZW7lPGbPnMQLMffweShVo) | research | 2026-06-14 |
| f4 | [SecurityWeek on Cycode Series B](https://www.securityweek.com/source-code-security-firm-cycode-raises-56-million/) | press | 2026-06-29 |
| f5 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/cycode/) | other | 2026-06-10 |
| f6 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/cycode/) | other | 2026-06-23 |
| f7 | [Cycode platform](https://cycode.com) | official | 2026-06-14 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Cycode homepage with Agentic Development Security Platform and Gartner Magic Quadrant, IDC, and Frost Radar Leader badges](https://cycode.com) “Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS), 2026.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s2 | [Cycode ADLC Security page (AI visibility, governance, guardrails, MCP, AIBOM)](https://cycode.com/adlc-security/) “Discover AI code assistants, models, infrastructure, MCP servers, packages, secrets, rule files, and skills across your software factory.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s3 | [Cycode About Us (founders and board of directors)](https://cycode.com/about-us/) “Lior Levy Co-Founder & CEO, Cycode. Ronen Slavin Co-Founder & CTO, Cycode. Andy Ellis Partner, YL Ventures. Eyal Gruner Founder & CEO, Cynet. Michael Fey Founder & CEO, Island. Jonathan Rosenbaum Managing Dir., Insight Partners.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s4 | [Cycode Security and Trust center (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, CSA STAR, GDPR)](https://cycode.com/trust/) “Cycode has completed a full third-party SOC 2 Type II audit. An independent auditor has evaluated our product, infrastructure, and policies to certify that Cycode complies with their stringent requirements.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s5 | [Cycode press release unveiling the Agentic Development Security Platform (March 23, 2026)](https://cycode.com/press/cycode-unveils-agentic-development-security-platform/) “With Maestro, Cycode manages and orchestrates agents to allow security teams to keep up with the 10X attacker, while built-in AI Governance and guardrails ensure the safe, compliant use of AI across the ADLC.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s6 | [CTech (Calcalist) on Cycode Series B, founders, and customer traction](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923737,00.html) “Since it first began selling in 2020, the company has acquired dozens of customers, ranging from large Fortune 500 enterprises to rapidly growing startups, including Grubhub, Databricks, Copart and Rapyd. In just the first three quarters of 2021, Cycode increased ARR 7x.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s7 | [SecurityWeek on Cycode 56M Series B (total raised 81M)](https://www.securityweek.com/source-code-security-firm-cycode-raises-56-million/) “The investment, which brings the total raised by Cycode to $81 million, was led by private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, with participation from YL Ventures.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s8 | [AppSec Santa independent Cycode evaluation naming UBS, NielsenIQ, Cribl, and Elastic customers with OWASP Benchmark results](https://appsecsanta.com/cycode) “Cycode's next-generation SAST achieves 94% fewer false positives compared to competitors on the OWASP Benchmark, with a 75% recall rate. The technology came from its acquisition of Bearer in April 2024.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s9 | [IDC MarketScape Worldwide Application Security Posture Management 2025 Vendor Assessment (Katie Norton) naming Snyk, Checkmarx, and Wiz among covered vendors](https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US53001925) “This IDC study evaluates 18 vendors in the worldwide application security posture management (ASPM) market. While this affirms its place as a defined category, the diversity of capabilities, origins, and design philosophies has created significant complexity for buyers.” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s10 | [DevOps.com on Cycode acquiring Bearer to extend its ASPM platform](https://devops.com/cycode-acquires-bearer-to-extend-aspm-platform/) “Cycode today announced it had acquired Bearer, a provider of a set of tools for static application security testing (SAST), discovering application programming interfaces (APIs) and identifying sensitive data.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s11 | [DevOps.com on Cycode using eBPF (Cimon) to secure CI/CD pipelines](https://devops.com/cycode-leverages-ebpf-to-secure-ci-cd-pipelines/) “Cycode today added a Cimon extension to its application security platform that uses extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) to thwart cyberattacks against continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s12 | [National Vulnerability Database API search for Cycode (no matching CVE records)](https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=cycode) “"totalResults":0” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s13 | [CTech (Calcalist) on Cycode founder backgrounds](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923737,00.html) “Cycode was founded in 2019 by CEO Lior Levy, a former Solutions Architect at Symantec, and serial entrepreneur Ronen Slavin, who serves as the company's CTO.” | press | 2026-06-29 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Cycode homepage with Agentic Development Security Platform and Gartner Magic Quadrant, IDC, and Frost Radar Leader badges](https://cycode.com) “Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS), 2026.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s2 | [Cycode ADLC Security page (AI visibility, governance, guardrails, MCP, AIBOM)](https://cycode.com/adlc-security/) “Discover AI code assistants, models, infrastructure, MCP servers, packages, secrets, rule files, and skills across your software factory.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s3 | [Cycode About Us (founders and board of directors)](https://cycode.com/about-us/) “Lior Levy Co-Founder & CEO, Cycode. Ronen Slavin Co-Founder & CTO, Cycode. Andy Ellis Partner, YL Ventures. Eyal Gruner Founder & CEO, Cynet. Michael Fey Founder & CEO, Island. Jonathan Rosenbaum Managing Dir., Insight Partners.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s4 | [Cycode Security and Trust center (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, CSA STAR Level 1, GDPR)](https://cycode.com/trust/) “Cycode has completed a full third-party SOC 2 Type II audit. An independent auditor has evaluated our product, infrastructure, and policies to certify that Cycode complies with their stringent requirements.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s5 | [Cycode press release unveiling the Agentic Development Security Platform (March 23, 2026)](https://cycode.com/press/cycode-unveils-agentic-development-security-platform/) “SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2026, Cycode today unveiled its Agentic Development Security Platform to secure the shift from human-centric to AI-driven software development, introducing Cycode Maestro orchestration.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s6 | [CTech (Calcalist) on Cycode Series B, founders, and customer traction](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923737,00.html) “Since it first began selling in 2020, the company has acquired dozens of customers, ranging from large Fortune 500 enterprises to rapidly growing startups, including Grubhub, Databricks, Copart and Rapyd. In just the first three quarters of 2021, Cycode increased ARR 7x.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s7 | [AppSec Santa independent Cycode evaluation naming UBS, NielsenIQ, Cribl, and Elastic customers with OWASP Benchmark, Context Intelligence Graph, and pricing](https://appsecsanta.com/cycode) “Cycode's next-generation SAST achieves 94% fewer false positives compared to competitors on the OWASP Benchmark, with a 75% recall rate. The technology came from its acquisition of Bearer in April 2024.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s8 | [IDC MarketScape Worldwide Application Security Posture Management 2025 Vendor Assessment (Katie Norton) naming Snyk, Checkmarx, and Wiz among covered vendors](https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US53001925) “This IDC study evaluates 18 vendors in the worldwide application security posture management (ASPM) market. While this affirms its place as a defined category, the diversity of capabilities, origins, and design philosophies has created significant complexity for buyers.” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s9 | [DevOps.com on Cycode acquiring Bearer (AI SAST, API discovery, 31 percent faster scanning)](https://devops.com/cycode-acquires-bearer-to-extend-aspm-platform/) “Bearer claims its approach to scanning is 31% faster than rival tools while simultaneously leveraging tools such as Bearer Assist, currently in beta, to provide more context concerning the level of risk to the business.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s10 | [SecurityWeek on Cycode 56M Series B (total raised 81M)](https://www.securityweek.com/source-code-security-firm-cycode-raises-56-million/) “The investment, which brings the total raised by Cycode to $81 million, was led by private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, with participation from YL Ventures.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s11 | [National Vulnerability Database API search for Cycode (no matching CVE records)](https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=cycode) “"totalResults":0” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s12 | [CTech (Calcalist) on Cycode founder backgrounds](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923737,00.html) “Cycode was founded in 2019 by CEO Lior Levy, a former Solutions Architect at Symantec, and serial entrepreneur Ronen Slavin, who serves as the company's CTO.” | press | 2026-06-29 |

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