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Bug bounty platforms

We list 14 companies active in bug bounty and crowdsourced testing, and 10 of them have it as their main focus. 2 are owned by another company and 12 are private. The most common bases are the United States (5), Belgium (1) and British Virgin Islands (1). The oldest, Bugcrowd, was founded in 2012.

Companies focused on bug bounty and crowdsourced testing

10 companies
CompanyBased inFoundedSizeOwnership
Bugcrowd

Crowdsourced bug bounty pioneer founded in 2012 by Casey Ellis, offering managed programs and crowd-powered penetration testing from hundreds of thousands of ethical hackers.

San Francisco, United States2012201-500 staffPrivate
HackerOne

World's largest ethical hacker platform with over one million researchers, offering bug bounties and structured penetration testing to the US DoD and Fortune 500.

San Francisco, United States2012201-500 staffPrivate
hackrate

Hackrate runs crowdsourced security testing and bug bounty programmes for companies.

HungaryPrivate
Immunefi

Immunefi runs bug bounty programmes and security services for cryptocurrency and smart contract projects.

Singapore, Singapore2020Private
Intigriti

Intigriti runs a crowdsourced security platform connecting organisations with ethical hackers for bug bounties and testing.

Antwerpen, Belgium2016Private
Sherlock

Sherlock provides security audits and bug bounties for onchain systems and Web3 protocols.

Panama City, Panama2021Private
Zerocopter

Zerocopter provides security testing services including pentesting, bug bounty, and vulnerability disclosure.

Groningen, NetherlandsPrivate
HackenProof

HackenProof runs a bug bounty and crowdsourced audit platform for blockchain and crypto projects.

Tallinn, EstoniaPrivate
Standoff 365

Standoff 365 runs bug bounty and cyber stress testing programmes with ethical hackers.

Russia2016Owned by Positive Technologies
YesWeHack

YesWeHack runs a bug bounty platform connecting organisations with ethical hackers.

Paris, FrancePrivate

Also active in bug bounty and crowdsourced testing

4 companies
CompanyBased inFoundedSizeOwnership
Synack

FedRAMP-authorized crowdsourced penetration testing platform combining the vetted SRT researcher community with AI-powered Hydra technology for continuous security testing.

Redwood City, United States2013201-500 staffPart of NetSPI
Hexens

Hexens audits smart contracts and provides offensive security for blockchain and Web3 projects.

Road Town, British Virgin Islands2021Private
ProjectDiscovery

ProjectDiscovery builds open-source security tools and infrastructure for mapping, probing, crawling, and detecting vulnerabilities.

San Francisco, United States2020Private
Cantina

Cantina provides an agentic security platform that uses autonomous AI agents to detect, respond to, and fix security issues.

Miami, United StatesPrivate

Recent deals in bug bounty and crowdsourced testing

All bug bounty and crowdsourced testing deals

Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.

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