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Total raised
$94M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Series C · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
9
+9 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Balderton Capital, Insight Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
85/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money
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
Apr 7
Increased its share capital $3.3k · BODACC
Feb 11
Raised a round Series C $50M
Oct 18, 2023
Launched GitGuardian debuts new way to manage software encryption keys and secrets · SiliconANGLE
Apr 14, 2023
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Honeytoken – give attackers a taste of their own medicine
Oct 13, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub · 589 points
Apr 28, 2022
Increased its share capital $2.7k · BODACC
Dec 7, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $44M · Venturebeat
Aug 2, 2021
On the Hacker News front page Docker container security cheat sheet · 192 points
Jun 12, 2020
On the Hacker News front page Best practices for managing and storing secrets like API keys and credentials · 200 points
Jan 3, 2020
Increased its share capital $2.1k · BODACC
Oct 26, 2018
Increased its share capital $1.6k · BODACC
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Feb 2026 | $50M | — | nextbigfuture.com |
| Venture round | Dec 2021 | $44M | — | Venturebeat |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | GitGuardian SAS | its site |
| Registered | 20 Nov 2017 |
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Balderton Capital 
Insight Partners 
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News
Product showcase: GitGuardian Honeytoken catches credential theft as it happens
GitGuardian honeytoken decoy service detects credential theft by planting fleet-wide decoys that alert teams when attackers use them.
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How We Got a CISA GitHub Leak Taken Down in Under a Day
On May 14, GitGuardian found a public GitHub repository called "Private-CISA" - 844 MB of plain-text passwords, AWS tokens, and Entra ID SAML certificates belonging to CISA, exposed since November 2025. Some credentials were still valid. CISA pulled it of
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@bitwarden/cli - GitGuardian Views on helloworm00
GitGuardian analysis of the @bitwarden/cli compromise: GitHub used as C2, new Cloudflare exfiltration domain found, linked to April 22 Checkmarx KICS compromise via Dependabot.
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Renovate & Dependabot: The New Malware Delivery System
Recent supply chain attacks stayed live for hours. Automation tools silently merged their malware in minutes. Read how upgrade bots and AI agents became the insider threat.
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The Team PCP Snowball Effect: A Quantitative Analysis
Supply chain attacks cascade through ecosystems in ways traditional metrics hardly capture. GitGuardian evaluates the PCP Team incidents and finds damage spread to thousands of public targets.
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The State of Secrets Sprawl 2026: AI-Service Leaks Surge 81% and 29M Secrets Hit Public GitHub
GitGuardian's 5th State of Secrets Sprawl report is here. In this blog, we unpack the key findings behind the 2026 edition, from AI-driven leak growth to the remediation gaps security teams can't ignore.
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2,622 Valid Certificates Exposed: A Google-GitGuardian Study Maps Private Key Leaks to Real-World Risk
GitGuardian partnered with Google to answer: what happens when private keys leak? Using Certificate Transparency, we mapped about 1M leaked keys to 140k certificates. Result: 2,622 were valid as of September 2025, exposing major organizations. Our disclos
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Shifting Security Left for AI Agents: Enforcing AI-Generated Code Security with GitGuardian MCP
In this article, we will explore the hot topic of securing AI-generated code and demonstrate a technical approach to shifting security left for cloud AI agents by using Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.
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GitGuardian Doubles Down on AI Agent Defense With $50M Raise
Backed by a $50 million Series C, GitGuardian plans to accelerate U.S. expansion and enhance secrets detection remediation and non-human identity controls as AI
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Why We Raised $50M: The Non-Human Identity Crisis Driving Our Series C
Today we're announcing our $50 million Series C, led by Insight Partners with participation from Quadrille Capital and our existing investors. But this isn't a story about funding.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Gitguardian over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
15
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
76/100
Languages
Python38%
SQL15%
Frameworks & libraries
Django15%
Databases
Snowflake8%
Cloud & platforms
GitHub15%
AWS8%
GCP8%
Spark8%
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15 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
9
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
10 days
faster than 69% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/16/2026
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.
Backend
31% ▲
Data Science
15% ▲
HR
15% ▲
DevOps
8% ▲
Leadership
8% ▼
Product
8% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Paris
Oct 2026
Added Edge AI to stack
Oct 2026
Added Spark to stack
Oct 2026
Added pySpark to stack
Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Oct 2026
Added Incident Management to stack
Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added Snowflake to stack
Oct 2026
Added Fivetran to stack
Oct 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Oct 2026
Added Django to stack
Oct 2026
Added Python to stack
Oct 2026
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9 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff
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185 Alewife Brook Pkwy Ste 210, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Earlier presence
New York, United States
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≈ $58k – $95k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Paris
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≈ $51k – $86k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Paris
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Django
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≈ $70k – $126k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Paris
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