Bugcrowd
bugcrowd.com
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Vulnerability Management
Application Security
Penetration Testing
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$189.2M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$102M
Venture round · Feb 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
160
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -19% in a year
Hiring now
7
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
General Catalyst, Paladin Capital Group
The money's age
Long since its last round
32 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
42/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 12, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $102M · Venturebeat
Mar 10, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $44.6M · SEC Form D
Feb 22, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $26M · SEC Form D
Apr 20, 2016
Raised a round Venture round $15M · eWeek
Jul 1, 2014
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: crowdsourced penetration tests via bug bounties
Sep 4, 2013
Raised a round Venture round $1.6M · Forbes
2012
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2024 | $102M | — | Venturebeat |
| Venture round | Mar 2020 | $44.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Feb 2018 | $26M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Apr 2016 | $15M | — | eWeek |
| Venture round | Sep 2013 | $1.6M | — | Forbes |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Bugcrowd Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Ashish GuptaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Daniel LascellExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Casey EllisExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Mark O'ConnorExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
David Gerry Jr.Executive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Chris NadanExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
General Catalyst 
Paladin Capital Group 
Rally Ventures 
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Overview
Bugcrowd is a crowdsourced cybersecurity company that connects organizations with a global community of independent security researchers. Its platform runs managed bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs, penetration testing as a service and attack surface management, helping enterprises and government agencies find and fix software vulnerabilities. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Bugcrowd Acquires Mayhem Security To Boost Autonomous App Testing
Bugcrowd announced the acquisition Tuesday of Mayhem Security, a longtime provider of autonomous application security testing, in a bid to help accelerate vulnerability remediation.
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Bugcrowd Purchases Mayhem to Expand AppSec Testing Platform
Bugcrowd acquired Mayhem Security to integrate automated application testing with human-led testing capabilities. The company plans to embed Pittsburgh-based
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Bugcrowd secures $102M, hits $1B valuation
Bugcrowd raises $102 million in new funding to scale its crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, reaching a $1 billion valuation as demand grows for solutions like penetration testing-as-a-service and bug bounty programs.
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Bugcrowd Platform Implements Industry-First AI Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy for LLMs
/PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the only multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, today announced updates to the Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT) that...
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Bullied by Bugcrowd over Kape CyberGhost disclosure
TL;DR The CyberGhost VPN client suffers from an elevation of privilege vulnerability and is filed under CVE-2023-30237. A specially crafted JSON payload sent to the CyberGhost RPC service can lead to command line injection when the OpenVPN process is laun
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A Step-by-Step to Hacking with Bugcrowd & Katie Paxton-Fear
This step-by-step hacking guide with Katie Paxton-Fear takes you from zero to hacking in no time! Designed for both newbies and experts upping their game!
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Bugcrowd over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
54
Postings analysed
21
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python43%
Assembly24%
Rust14%
Java10%
Frameworks & libraries
Keystone Engine19%
Flask10%
React.js10%
Cohere SDK5%
Databases
Amazon Redshift5%
Cloud & platforms
Linux29%
AWS24%
Burp Suite19%
Kali Linux19%
AI & ML
LLM10%
Claude5%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$114k
Typical range
$110k – $243k
Open positions
3
2
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 2 | $112k | $110k – $114k |
Highest paying role
Reinforcement Learning Engineer
$243k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Ashish Gupta
Executive Officer, Director
Daniel Lascell
Executive Officer
Casey Ellis
Executive Officer, Director
Mark O'Connor
Executive Officer
David Gerry Jr.
Executive Officer, Director
Chris Nadan
Executive Officer
Robert Taccini
Executive Officer
Arthur W. Coviello Jr.
Director
Niki Scevak
Director
Charles Beeler
Director
Neill Occhiogrosso
Director
Greg Sands
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
89/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
7
4 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
55 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Security
29% ▲
Management
18% ▼
Backend
12% ▼
Customer Success
12% ▼
AI/ML
6% ▼
Leadership
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Security (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Costa Rica
Oct 2026
New location: Brazil
Oct 2026
New location: United Kingdom
Oct 2026
New location: San José
Sep 2026
New location: London
Sep 2026
New location: Bengaluru
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Chicago
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
9
Hiring now
2
Countries
6
Busiest office
San José
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
San Francisco Headquarters
1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
300 California Street
San José
Costa Rica
Regional office
Indecomm - Costa Rica
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Security, Solutions
London
United Kingdom
Support & operations
United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Customer Success
Bengaluru
India
Regional office
India
1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
Berlin
Germany
Regional office
Germany
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
Seattle
United States
Regional office
West Coast
Boston
United States
Regional office
East Coast
Bedford
United States
Regional office
New Hampshire Office
8 Commerce Drive, Bedford, NH 03110
Jobs
≈ $42k – $106k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Costa Rica) • Confidential • 2+ years exp • San José
Python
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≈ $32k – $75k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Costa Rica) • Confidential • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San José
Python
Java
Ruby
Terraform
GCP
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
OWASP Top 10
Threat Modeling
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$176k – $243k per year • Remote (United States) • Confidential
Python
Rust
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
Cohere SDK
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
DevOps
GitHub Actions
Docker
Linux
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≈ $35k – $104k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Brazil) • Confidential • Bachelor's Degree • Brazil
Kali Linux
Linux
Cybersecurity
Burp Suite
Nmap
SQLmap
OWASP
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Financials
Total raised
$189.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5