Inspectiv is a technology company.
Inspectiv has raised $19.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Inspectiv has raised $19.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Inspectiv has raised $19.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Inspectiv's investors include Freestyle Capital, Accomplice VC, Amplify.LA, Awesome People Ventures, Entrada Ventures, FabFitFun, Fika Ventures, MetaProp Ventures, Mucker Capital, Tucker Seed Fund LLC, Ali Moiz, Grant Miller.
Inspectiv is a cybersecurity technology company that builds an AI-enabled application security testing platform integrating bug bounty programs, penetration testing (pentesting), feature testing, dynamic application security testing (DAST), and vulnerability disclosure programs (VDP).[1][2][4][5][6] It serves rapidly growing tech companies and security teams at mid-market and enterprise organizations, solving the problem of overwhelming alerts, false positives, and fragmented tools by delivering high-signal, validated vulnerabilities with reduced noise and operational efficiency.[2][3][4][5][6] The platform leverages over 1,700 global security researchers, AI-powered triage, and seamless integrations (e.g., Slack, Jira, CI/CD) to enable continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), helping teams focus on remediation, compliance, and secure innovation.[2][3][4][6]
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Culver City, California (with remote operations), Inspectiv has evolved from its original bug bounty focus—formerly known as CESPPA—into a unified platform, Inspectiv 2.0, emphasizing precision over volume amid rising AI-driven threats.[1][2][5]
Inspectiv emerged in 2018 from founders' decades of hands-on experience in telecom, startups, and enterprise security, where they observed teams struggling with inefficient bug bounties and pentesting amid a fast-evolving threat landscape.[1][2] The bold idea: democratize world-class security testing for organizations of all sizes by harnessing a global community of researchers, building on early 2000s bug bounty models while addressing their high-maintenance drawbacks.[2]
Early traction came from reducing noise and boosting efficiency, leading to pivotal evolution into a comprehensive platform combining multiple testing modalities.[2] Backed by leading investors and trusted by security teams at companies like ServiceTitan, Inspectiv has grown into an end-to-end solution, with recent launches like Inspectiv 2.0 enhancing AI triage and unified workflows.[2][5]
These features outperform fragmented competitors like Synack, Detectify, and YesWeHack by focusing on operational simplicity and actionable insights.[1]
Inspectiv rides the surge in continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) and AI-augmented cybersecurity, addressing the explosion of application vulnerabilities as software complexity and AI threats accelerate.[4][5][6] Timing is ideal amid regulatory pressures (e.g., compliance needs) and the shift from reactive scanning to proactive, unified testing for mid-market firms previously underserved by enterprise-only tools.[2][5]
Market forces like rising breach costs, developer velocity demands, and AI's dual role (tool and attack vector) favor Inspectiv's model, which scales expert human insight with automation.[3][4][5] It influences the ecosystem by lowering barriers to advanced AppSec, enabling faster secure innovation for tech growth companies and reducing overall industry noise in vulnerability management.[2][6]
Inspectiv is poised to expand as the go-to AppSec platform for scaling tech firms, with Inspectiv 2.0 rolling out enhanced AI triage, integrations, and UX to capture more market share in a $10B+ cybersecurity testing space.[5] Trends like AI-driven attacks, zero-trust mandates, and CTEM adoption will propel growth, potentially through deeper AI features, researcher network expansion, and enterprise wins.
Its influence may evolve toward becoming a standard for "security without overhead," empowering more organizations to innovate securely—echoing its founding vision of accessible, world-class testing in an increasingly hostile digital landscape.[2]
Inspectiv has raised $19.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $11.0M Series A in June 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2022 | $11.0M Series A | Freestyle Capital | |
| Nov 1, 2020 | $6.0M Seed | Accomplice VC, Amplify.LA, Awesome People Ventures, Entrada Ventures, FabFitFun, Fika Ventures, Freestyle Capital, MetaProp Ventures, Mucker Capital, Tucker Seed Fund LLC, Ali Moiz, Grant Miller, Paul Holland, Sam Parr, Tom McInerney, Warren Shaeffer | |
| Jul 1, 2018 | $2.0M Seed | 20VC, Andreessen Horowitz, Awesome People Ventures, Cisco Investments, Coatue, Foundry Group, Mucker Capital, OODA Ventures, Tucker Seed Fund LLC, Wave Financial, Ali Moiz, Charlie Songhurst, Mark Jacobstein, Neill Occhiogrosso, Sam Parr |