Bugcrowd

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Bugcrowd
TypePrivate
Industry Cybersecurity
Founded2012
FoundersCasey Ellis, Chris Raethke, Sergei Belokamen
Headquarters San Francisco, California and Australia
Key people
  • David Gerry (CEO)
  • Casey Ellis (Founder, Chief Strategy Officer)
  • Nick McKenzie (CI&SO)
  • Robert Taccini (CFO)
Website bugcrowd.com

Bugcrowd is a crowdsourced security platform. [1] [2] [3] It was founded in 2012, and in 2019 it was one of the largest bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure companies on the internet. [4] Bugcrowd runs bug bounty programs and also offers a range of penetration testing services it refers to as "Penetration Testing as a Service" (PTaaS), as well as attack surface management. [5] [6] [7]

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History

Bugcrowd was founded in Sydney, Australia in 2012. As of 2018, its main headquarters is in San Francisco, with other offices in Sydney and London. [8]

Funding

Bugcrowd has raised a total of $78.7 million in funding over 6 rounds. Their seed funding started in 2013 to increase their 3000 vetted security testers. [9] This seed funding was primarily led by Rally Ventures and they were able to raise $1.6 million. [9]

Series A funding round took place in 2015 and was led by Costanoa Ventures, raising $6 million. [10]

Blackbird Ventures led funding for their Series B round with $15 million raised in April 2016. [11] [12]

In March 2018, it secured $26 million in a Series C funding round led by Triangle Peak Partners. [13]

Bugcrowd announced Series D funding in April 2020 of $30 million led by previous investor Rally Ventures. [14] [15]

Clients

As of 2020, Bugcrowd worked with 65 industries across 29 countries. [15] Their clients have included Tesla, Atlassian, Fitbit, Square, Mastercard, Amazon and eBay. [16] [5]

Bugcrowd's first partner in the financial industry was Western Union, in 2015. Originally a private, invite-only program, it was later opened to the public, with rewards varying between $100 and $5000 depending on the bug. [17] In 2020, Bugcrowd helped National Australia Bank become one of the first banks in Australia to launch a bug bounty. [18]

Samsung has also worked with Bugcrowd, rewarding a total of over $2 million in rewards to those who found bugs in Samsung's security. [19]

Job platform Seek has been using Bugcrowd since 2019 with the highest reward from their bug bounty program being $10,000. [20] [21]

In 2020, ExpressVPN worked with Bugcrowd, awarding $100 to $2500 depending on the deverity of the vulnerabilities that were found, with 21 critical findings identified. [22]

Bugcrowd also runs programs for the U.S. DOD, the Air Force and DDS. [23] [24]

Other projects

In 2018, Bugcrowd and CipherLaw's Open Source Vulnerability Disclosure Framework, together with the #LegalBugBounty project, created the open-source project disclose.io, which aims to create an open-source standard for bug bounties and vulnerability disclosures to help hackers and organizations work together to make the Internet safer. [25] [26]

The company also runs Bugcrowd University, which provides educational resources to help the public learn how to code, find bugs in security systems and patch them. [27] [28]

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