Tech Company Financing Transactions

GitGuardian Funding Round

GitGuardian, based in Paris, raised $44 million in funding from Eurazeo, Sapphire Ventures and Balderton Capital.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
12/8/2021
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$44,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Eurazeo (Lead Investor) (Nicolas Debock)

Sapphire Ventures (Lead Investor) (Andreas Weiskam)

Balderton Capital (Suranga Chandratillake)

Bpifrance

Fly Ventures

Proceeds Purpose
The investment round will be used to accelerate the strategies that drove GitGuardian to quadruple its recurring revenue in both 2020 and 2021, extend its secret detection solution to become a comprehensive code security platform, expand its go-to-market, and grow its teams across the US and Europe.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Security
Mailing Address
10 Rue La Boétie
Paris, 75008
France
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Overview
GitGuardian is a cybersecurity start-up embarked on a mission to take credentials out of source code. Did you know that hacking your company can be as easy as a GitHub search? We are the first and only Data Loss Prevention solution to scan GitHub public activity in real-time for API secret tokens, passwords, database connection strings, etc.
Profile
GitGuardian LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
GitGuardian Company Twitter Account
Company News
GitGuardian News
Facebook
GitGuardian on Facebook
YouTube
GitGuardian on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Jérémy Thomas
  Jérémy Thomas LinkedIn Profile  Jérémy Thomas Twitter Account  Jérémy Thomas News  Jérémy Thomas on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Eric Fourrier
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VP - Operations
Elin Larsen
  Elin Larsen LinkedIn Profile  Elin Larsen Twitter Account  Elin Larsen News  Elin Larsen on Facebook


 

 

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