# Cyber Company Profiles: Semgrep

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## At a Glance

- Website: [semgrep.dev](https://semgrep.dev)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/semgrep
- Type: Security for AI, Application Security, Developer Tools
- Also known as: r2c
- Market readiness: Established (30/40)
- Defensibility: Exposed (12/21)
- Founded: 2017
- Funding: $204M total
- Last updated: 2026-07-11

## Executive Summary

Semgrep sells code, dependency, and secrets scanning on an open-source engine that runs locally and never uploads source by default, the central objection a code-scanning buyer raises. The engine solves a hard program-analysis problem and embeds in pipelines, yet it is reproducible: security firms forked it as OpenGrep after Semgrep changed its open-source rules license, and the reviewed record shows no private data corpus behind the rules. The trust portal publishes a SOC 2 Type II report and an outside penetration test, and after the May 2026 Qilin incident exposed scan results of Semgrep's own code via a sandbox API token, Semgrep says no customer findings or source code were accessed. What Semgrep keeps if rivals copy the engine is developer mindshare and execution speed.

## 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 | Semgrep is a static application security testing platform that scans source code, helping developers find and fix the security issues that matter. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2017 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | San Francisco, California, USA | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $204M total | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series D, $100M (February 2025), led by Menlo Ventures | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Deployment | SaaS, Self-hosted | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Semgrep | Static analysis platform that scans code regardless of who or what wrote it, with a Guardian mode and Multimodal AI that find and help fix vulnerabilities in AI-generated code as it lands. |

## 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 |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

Semgrep scans code regardless of who or what wrote it, with a Guardian mode and Multimodal AI that find and help fix vulnerabilities in AI-generated code as it lands. 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

Semgrep provides static analysis, software composition analysis, and secrets scanning. 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 (30/40)**

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

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 4/5 |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 |
| Market Timing | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 |

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## 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

**Exposed (12/21)**

Band guidance: pivot urgently. Analyzed 2026-07-11. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Semgrep: Semgrep Code](https://semgrep.dev/products/semgrep-code/) | official | 2026-07-09 |
| f2 | [Semgrep About page](https://semgrep.dev/about/) | official | 2026-06-14 |
| f3 | [Semgrep Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semgrep) | research | 2026-06-14 |
| f4 | [SiliconANGLE: Code security startup Semgrep reels in $100M from investors](https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/05/code-security-startup-semgrep-reels-100m-investors/) | press | 2026-06-27 |
| f5 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/semgrep/) | other | 2026-06-09 |
| f6 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/semgrep/) | other | 2026-06-23 |
| f7 | [Semgrep platform](https://semgrep.dev) | official | 2026-06-14 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Semgrep homepage (AI-assisted SAST, SCA, Secrets, Multimodal)](https://semgrep.dev) “At RSA, we launched Semgrep Multimodal to combine AI reasoning with rule-based detection.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s2 | [Semgrep Code product page (multimodal SAST, deterministic plus AI)](https://semgrep.dev/products/semgrep-code/) “Semgrep Multimodal finds up to 3.5x more true positives at 19% lower cost per true positive compared to using AI alone. Multimodal reduces the number of findings you need to triage by 20% the day you turn it on.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s3 | [Semgrep Supply Chain product page (SCA with reachability, malicious dependency detection, EPSS)](https://semgrep.dev/products/semgrep-supply-chain/) | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s4 | [Semgrep Secrets product page (semantic and entropy analysis, validation)](https://semgrep.dev/products/semgrep-secrets/) “Go beyond regex: leverage Semantic Analysis, entropy analysis, and validation to accurately detect and fix secrets.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s5 | [Semgrep About page (founders, 2017 founding, named customers)](https://semgrep.dev/about/) “Founded by Drew Dennison, Isaac Evans, and Luke O'Malley in 2017, the company's mission has been to profoundly improve software security from day 1.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s6 | [Semgrep GitHub repository (Community Edition engine, 20000+ Pro rules, local analysis)](https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep) “The Semgrep AppSec Platform works out-of-the-box with 20000+ proprietary rules across SAST, SCA, and secrets. Pro rules are written and maintained by the Semgrep security research team. Semgrep analyzes code locally on your computer or in your build environment: by default, code is never uploaded.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s7 | [Semgrep pricing page (per-contributor commercial tiers, free tier, contributor definition)](https://semgrep.dev/pricing) “A contributor is someone who made at least one commit to your organization's private repository scanned by Semgrep in the past 90 days.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s8 | [SiliconANGLE: Code security startup Semgrep reels in $100M from investors (Maria Deutscher, February 5, 2025)](https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/05/code-security-startup-semgrep-reels-100m-investors/) “Menlo Ventures led the Series D investment. The company's total outside funding now stands at $204 million.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s9 | [Semgrep announces recognition in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AST (PR Newswire, October 14, 2025)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/semgrep-recognized-in-the-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-application-security-testing-302583749.html) “today announced it has been recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing for the first time.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s10 | [Dark Reading: Code-Scanning Tool's License at Heart of Security Breakup (Robert Lemos)](https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/code-scanning-tool-s-license-at-heart-of-security-breakup) “I think it was becoming very clear ... that Semgrep's biggest competitor was their own open source engine, and so they were trying to create a bigger gap.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s11 | [InfoQ: Opengrep Forks Semgrep to Liberate Rulesets After License Change (Matt Saunders)](https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/semgrep-forked-opengrep/) “A consortium of software companies, including JIT and Orca Security, has launched Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep's open-source software, in response to licensing changes for rules provided in the OSS version.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s12 | [Semgrep*: Improving the Limited Performance of SAST Tools (EASE 2024, peer-reviewed)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3661167.3661262) “the vulnerability detection rates of individual tools range from 11.2% to 26.5%, but combining these four tools can detect 38.8% of vulnerabilities. Our newly configured Semgrep tool detects 44.7% of vulnerabilities, a 181% improvement in Semgrep's detection rate.” | research | 2026-06-27 |
| s13 | [QASecClaw: Multi-Agent LLM False Positive Reduction in SAST (arXiv preprint, May 2026, Semgrep as the SAST backbone)](https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01885v1) “QASecClaw achieves an F1-score of 90.93%, compared with 78.39% for standalone Semgrep. This improvement is mainly driven by an 88.6% reduction in false positives, from 560 to 64.” | research | 2026-06-27 |
| s14 | [NVD CVE-2023-32758 (ReDoS in giturlparse as used in Semgrep)](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32758) “giturlparse (aka git-url-parse) through 1.2.2, as used in Semgrep 1.5.2 through 1.24.1, is vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) if parsing untrusted URLs.” | other | 2026-06-27 |
| s15 | [AppSec Santa independent Semgrep review (CE vs Platform, benchmark, customers, GitHub stars)](https://appsecsanta.com/semgrep) “Semgrep Code detects 72% of vulnerabilities in WebGoat vs 48% with CE alone, a 50% improvement through cross-file analysis. Used by Dropbox, Figma, Snowflake; 15,555 GitHub stars.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s16 | [Semgrep Trust Portal (SOC 2 Type II, third-party pentest, Qilin incident update)](https://trust.semgrep.dev/) “Semgrep Inc. is thrilled to announce our latest SOC 2 Type II report (covering December 1, 2023 - November 30, 2024) and our latest full-scope, whitebox penetration test (performed by Include Security).” | official | 2026-06-27 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Semgrep homepage (AI-assisted SAST, SCA, Secrets, Multimodal)](https://semgrep.dev) “At RSA, we launched Semgrep Multimodal to combine AI reasoning with rule-based detection.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s2 | [Semgrep Code product page (multimodal SAST, deterministic plus AI)](https://semgrep.dev/products/semgrep-code/) “Semgrep Multimodal finds up to 3.5x more true positives at 19% lower cost per true positive compared to using AI alone. Multimodal reduces the number of findings you need to triage by 20% the day you turn it on.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s3 | [Semgrep Supply Chain product page (SCA with reachability, malicious dependency detection, EPSS)](https://semgrep.dev/products/semgrep-supply-chain/) | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s4 | [Semgrep Secrets product page (semantic and entropy analysis, validation)](https://semgrep.dev/products/semgrep-secrets/) “Go beyond regex: leverage Semantic Analysis, entropy analysis, and validation to accurately detect and fix secrets. Leverage Semgrep's data flow engine to understand what credentials exist and how they are being used.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s5 | [Semgrep About page (founders, 2017 founding, named customers)](https://semgrep.dev/about/) “Founded by Drew Dennison, Isaac Evans, and Luke O'Malley in 2017, the company's mission has been to profoundly improve software security from day 1.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s6 | [Semgrep GitHub repository (CE engine, 20000+ Pro rules, local analysis, ecosystem)](https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep) “The Semgrep AppSec Platform works out-of-the-box with 20000+ proprietary rules across SAST, SCA, and secrets. Semgrep analyzes code locally on your computer or in your build environment: by default, code is never uploaded.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s7 | [Semgrep pricing page (per-contributor rates, free tier, AI data-handling FAQ)](https://semgrep.dev/pricing) “Choose from: Code ($30/month/contributor) Supply Chain ($30/month/contributor) Secrets ($15/month/contributor)” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s8 | [Semgrep Trust Portal (SOC 2 Type II, Include Security pentest, Qilin incident update)](https://trust.semgrep.dev/) “Semgrep Inc. is thrilled to announce our latest SOC 2 Type II report and our latest full-scope, whitebox penetration test (performed by Include Security). We have now completed post-incident investigations and confirmed the threat actor did not access customer findings or source code.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s9 | [SiliconANGLE: Code security startup Semgrep reels in $100M from investors (Maria Deutscher, February 5, 2025)](https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/05/code-security-startup-semgrep-reels-100m-investors/) “Menlo Ventures led the Series D investment. The company's total outside funding now stands at $204 million.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s10 | [Dark Reading: Code-Scanning Tool's License at Heart of Security Breakup (Robert Lemos)](https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/code-scanning-tool-s-license-at-heart-of-security-breakup) “The triggering event for the open source split came on Dec. 13, when Semgrep outlined changes... removing the ability of the Community Edition to export certain fields in common output formats, such as JSON and the Static Analysis Results Interchange Format (SARIF).” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s11 | [InfoQ: Opengrep Forks Semgrep to Liberate Rulesets After License Change (Matt Saunders)](https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/semgrep-forked-opengrep/) “A consortium of software companies, including JIT and Orca Security, has launched Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep's open-source software, in response to licensing changes for rules provided in the OSS version.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s12 | [Semgrep*: Improving the Limited Performance of SAST Tools (EASE 2024, peer-reviewed)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3661167.3661262) “the vulnerability detection rates of individual tools range from 11.2% to 26.5%, but combining these four tools can detect 38.8% of vulnerabilities. Our newly configured Semgrep tool detects 44.7% of vulnerabilities, a 181% improvement in Semgrep's detection rate.” | research | 2026-06-27 |
| s13 | [QASecClaw: Multi-Agent LLM False Positive Reduction in SAST (arXiv preprint, May 2026, Semgrep backbone)](https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01885v1) “QASecClaw achieves an F1-score of 90.93%, compared with 78.39% for standalone Semgrep. This improvement is mainly driven by an 88.6% reduction in false positives, from 560 to 64.” | research | 2026-06-27 |
| s14 | [NVD CVE-2023-32758 (ReDoS in giturlparse as used in Semgrep)](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32758) “giturlparse (aka git-url-parse) through 1.2.2, as used in Semgrep 1.5.2 through 1.24.1, is vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) if parsing untrusted URLs.” | other | 2026-06-27 |
| s15 | [AppSec Santa independent Semgrep review (CE vs Platform, benchmark, customers, GitHub stars)](https://appsecsanta.com/semgrep) “Semgrep Community Edition (CE) is a free, open-source SAST engine (LGPL-2.1) scanning 30+ languages with 3,000+ community rules, single-file analysis only. Semgrep Code detects 72% of vulnerabilities in WebGoat vs 48% with CE alone. Used by Dropbox, Figma, Snowflake; 15,555 GitHub stars.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s16 | [Semgrep announces recognition in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AST (PR Newswire, October 14, 2025)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/semgrep-recognized-in-the-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-application-security-testing-302583749.html) “today announced it has been recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing for the first time.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s17 | [Checkmarx One pricing page (custom-quote-only, no public rate)](https://checkmarx.com/pricing/) “Pricing is based on developers, apps, and usage. Your dedicated rep will build a precise proposal.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s18 | [Black Duck SCA pricing page (quote-request form, no public rate)](https://www.blackduck.com/software-composition-analysis-tools/black-duck-sca/get-pricing.html) “Get a no-obligation quote, customized to your needs.” | official | 2026-06-27 |

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