SonarSource

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SonarSource
IndustryOpensource Software
Founded2008 [1]
Founder
  • Olivier Gaudin
  • Freddy Mallet
  • Simon Brandhof
Headquarters
Geneva
,
Switzerland
Area served
Worldwide
Products
Website Official website

SonarSource is a Swiss company founded in 2008. It develops open source software for continuous code quality and security.

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Overview

SonarSource is a company that develops open source software for continuous code quality and security. Founded by Olivier Gaudin, Freddy Mallet, and Simon Brandhof in 2008, SonarSource is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

In 2017, they had more than 6,000 customers, including eBay, Bank of America, BMW. [8]

As of 2022, SonarSource has more than 7 million users, 21,000 enterprise customers, and they now support more than 400,000 organizations. [9]

Products

SonarSource provides code quality and security products to detect maintainability, reliability and vulnerability issues on 27 programming languages including Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, C/C++, COBOL. [10] [11] The company offers three products: SonarQube Server, SonarQube Cloud, and SonarQube for IDE [12] .

Financial backing

In 2016, the company raised US$ 45 million of funding from Insight Venture Partners, a US investment firm. [8] [6] [7] [13] In 2022, SonarSource received with CHF 394.6 million the second largest venture capital financing round of Switzerland of that year. [1]

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