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Funding and backers

Total raised
$45.8M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$5.1M
Venture round · Jul 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+1 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, 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
Sep 29, 2025 Acquisition FOSSA Acquires EdgeBit: From Scanning to Updating · fossa.com Jul 15, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $5.1M · SEC Form D Aug 25, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $4.5M · SEC Form D Nov 10, 2022 Raised a round Seed $2.2M Mar 6, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $23.2M · SEC Form D Sep 16, 2019 Raised a round Series A $8.5M · led by Bain Capital Ventures · PRNewswire Feb 23, 2017 Raised a round Seed $2.2M · PRNewswire 2015 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
87 public repositories
Hacker News stories
37
best: 172 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2025 $5.1M — SEC Form D
Venture round Aug 2023 $4.5M — SEC Form D
Seed Nov 2022 $2.2M — wsj.com
Venture round Mar 2020 $23.2M — SEC Form D
Series A Sep 2019 $8.5M Bain Capital Ventures lead, Costanoa Ventures lead, Bain Capital lead PRNewswire
Seed Feb 2017 $2.2M — PRNewswire
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity FOSSA, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kevin WangExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

FOSSA automates open source licence compliance and software composition analysis. Its tooling maps dependencies, flags policy conflicts and generates attribution artefacts. Engineering and legal teams use it to ship code without licence risk.

News

News Irish Examiner 16 days ago
Watch and read: Awesome Cliffords power Fossa to Kerry senior status for the first time
Fossa were founded as a club in 1970 and have never played in the senior championship. The two Cliffords were trying to power them to a place they had never been before. That trek was never likely to be easy.
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News fossa.com 2 months ago
Open Source License Compatibility Checker Free License Compliance Tool FOSSA
Free tool to check if two open source licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, GPL, AGPL, MPL, BSD) can be combined - with plain-English obligations and distribution rules.
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News The Times of India 4 months ago
Meet Fossa: Three-in-one predator that's secretly a cat, a mongoose, and a monkey all in one
Animals & Pets News: Madagascar's isolated forests possess unique biodiversity due to the millions of years of its geographical separation.This separation allowed evolutio.
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News NBC 7 San Diego 10 months ago
What in the world is a fossa? The San Diego Zoo now has three more
The zoo's three new pups - a pair of males, Isalo and Fiaro, Volana, a female - were, born back in July and have remained in their den since that time with...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at FOSSA over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
Perl
Python
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Kubernetes
Developer tools
Jenkins
Travis CI
Practices & domains
CI/CD
Computer Vision
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$240k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 2 $240k $240k
Highest paying role Sr. Strategic Customer Success Engineer - Central US $240k
Normalized to USD per year

People

Kevin Wang
Executive Officer, Director
Gary Little
Director
John Cowgill
Director
Paul Murphy
Director
Andy Chou
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
3
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~6 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.
Legal
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Travis CI to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
0
Countries
3
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San Francisco United States
HQ
San Francisco & Remote - US
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Buenos Aires Argentina
Regional office
Remote - Argentina
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Vancouver Canada
Regional office
Vancouver
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Central United States
Regional office
Central US / Midwest
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Jobs

$200k – $240k per year • Equity • Remote (likely United States) • 3+ years exp
CI/CD
Jenkins
Travis CI
GitHub
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Financials

Total raised
$45.8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
6
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $5.1M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $4.5M Details
Seed 2022 $2.2M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $23.2M Details
Series A 2019 $8.5M Details
Seed 2017 $2.2M Details