Sprocket Security
Information Security · Penetration Testing
2open roles
$8Mlatest round · Venture round · Mar 2024 · 2 yr ago
Growinghiring pace, 59 of 100
35team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · 0% in a year
Overview
Sprocket Security was founded to improve the way we approach cybersecurity. Currently the industry performs services in a timeboxed, or point-in-time approach. We think this is fundamentally flawed.
How Sprocket Security hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Sprocket Security scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 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
Funding and backers
Total raised
$8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$8M
Venture round · Mar 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
35
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · 0% in a year
Hiring now
5
open roles
The money's age
Long since its last round
31 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 27
Recognition Sprocket Security Wins the Spring 2026 Top Performer Award from SourceForge · AOL.com
Jan 20
New executive Sprocket Security Appoints Eric Sheridan as Chief Technology Officer · nextbigfuture.com
Mar 28, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $8M · SiliconANGLE
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.44%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Mar 2024 | $8M | — | SiliconANGLE |
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Jobs
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
59/100
Growing
Open positions
5
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
54 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.
Sales
60% ▼
Security
20% ▼
Solutions
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Central
Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $8M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Sprocket Security over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
5
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Active Directory
AI & ML
Claude
Practices & domains
DNS
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News
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Sprocket Security Earns Repeat Recognition in G2's Winter 2025 Relationship Index for Penetration Testing - NextBigFuture.com
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Sprocket Security Recognized by G2 for 'Best Support' and 'Easiest to Do Business With'
MADISON, WISCONSIN / ACCESS Newswire / September 11, 2025 / Sprocket Security is excited to announce that it has officially been recognized for "Best Support" and "Easiest to Do Business With" in G2's
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Sprocket Security raises $8M to enhance cybersecurity penetration testing platform
Sprocket Security raises $8M to enhance cybersecurity penetration testing platform - SiliconANGLE
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Madison
Madison
United States
HQ
Sprocket Security, Inc.
3 open roles 33% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales