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Funding and backers

Total raised
$8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$8M
Series A · Jan 2025 · 20 mo ago
Team
1-10
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
1
BeAngels
The money's age
Due for its next round
20 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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
Jan 23, 2025 Raised a round Series A $8M · YahooFinance Jul 15, 2020 On the Hacker News front page Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams · 264 points Apr 27, 2016 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Passbolt – open-source password manager for teams 2016 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
48 public repositories
Launched on Hacker News
62 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Jan 2025 $8M — YahooFinance
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How Passbolt hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Passbolt scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Passbolt is a Luxembourg software company founded in 2016 that develops an open source password manager for teams. Its self-hostable design lets organisations keep credential storage entirely under their own control. The product is used by engineering and security teams worldwide.

News

News XDA 1 year ago
I used Passbolt to manage passwords at home and here's how it went
Using a password manager encouraged my family to use stronger password while easily sharing them with each other.
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Passbolt: $8 Million (Series A) Raised For Access Management
Passbolt, a new type of credential and access manager for organizations of all sizes, announced it has raised $8 million in Series A financing for its all-in-one open source-based collaborative password and access software. New investor Airbridge Equity P
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News TechCrunch 1 year ago
Passbolt raises $8M for its open source password manager for teams
Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Passbolt Secures $8 Million Series A to Secure Password Collaboration, Modernize Access Management for Teams
Funding will be used to accelerate open source development and meet complex security and regulatory requirementsLUXEMBOURG, Jan. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Passbolt, a new type of credential and access manager for organizations of all sizes, today annou
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News TechRepublic 2 years ago
Passbolt vs Bitwarden: Which Is Better?
Compare Passbolt versus Bitwarden in 2024. Explore features, security, and pricing to find out which password manager is the better choice for your needs.
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News Cult of Mac 3 years ago
Stay secure online with Passbolt password manager's 'secret key'
Passbolt uses a "secret key" for all authentication and encryption, keeping you secure in your online travels.
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News TechRepublic 4 years ago
How to deploy a self-hosted instance of the Passbolt password manager
A password manager can keep your sensitive information in-house. Here
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News GIGAZINE 6 years ago
'Passbolt' that allows you to host password management for multiple people on your own server for free, open source data import of 1Password and KeePass is also possible
Software that manages passwords includes 1Password and KeePass , but there is hardly any software that allows you to host the service yourself and share the password within the group. By using the basic free open source software
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Passbolt over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
33
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
PHP
JavaScript
Less
Python
Frameworks & libraries
Jest
Laravel
React.js
Symfony
Cloud & platforms
Linux
GitLab
Kubernetes
Figma
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Full Passbolt tech stack 33 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
3
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
307 days
faster than 6% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Support
67% ▼
Backend
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack Oct 2026
Added WebDriverIO to stack Oct 2026
Added Storybook to stack Oct 2026
Added Selenium to stack Oct 2026
Added React.js to stack Oct 2026
Added npm to stack Oct 2026
Added Jest to stack Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack Oct 2026
Added Cypress to stack Oct 2026
Added C# to stack Oct 2026
Added UML to stack Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Belvaux
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Luxembourg City Luxembourg
HQ
Belvaux Luxembourg
Support & operations
Passbolt SA
3 open roles 33% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Support, Backend
9 Avenue du Blues, Belvaux, L-4368
seen since Jul 2025 company site, job postings

Jobs

≈ $28k – $80k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Belvaux
PHP
WordPress
Drupal
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
GitLab
Linux
Management
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≈ $28k – $80k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Belvaux
PHP
WordPress
Drupal
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
GitLab
Linux
Management
Agile
Apply
In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Belvaux
Python
Go
JavaScript
PHP
Rust
SQL
Bash
Laravel
Symfony
PHPUnit
Frontend
Less
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Linux
Cybersecurity
GnuPG
OWASP Top 10
GDPR
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Active Directory
LDAP
OWASP
Management
Agile
Scrum
UML
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Financials

Total raised
$8M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2025 $8M Details