Wabbi is a company.
Wabbi has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round.
Key people at Wabbi.
Wabbi has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Wabbi has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Wabbi's investors include Amasia, Ampli Ventures, Cisco Investments, General Catalyst, Indeed.com, Inventure, Mendoza Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Recall Capital, Work-Bench, Clark Landry, Jeff Seibert.
Wabbi is a Boston-based cybersecurity startup founded in 2018 that builds a Continuous Security Platform, pioneering Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) to integrate security seamlessly into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).[1][2][4][8] It serves developers, security teams, and enterprises—from startups to Fortune 500 companies and regulated sectors like fintech, healthcare, and DOD—solving the DevSecOps gap where security lags behind rapid development, outnumbered by developers (e.g., 100:1 ratio) and creating bottlenecks.[1][2][3] Wabbi's platform automates AppSec processes, prioritizes the 5% of critical vulnerabilities for immediate action, defers 15% for later fixes with monitoring, and manages the rest via custom project algorithms, boosting developer productivity, reducing risk, and enabling continuous security without sacrificing velocity.[1][3][8]
The company has shown strong growth momentum, raising a $2M seed round in 2019 led by Mendoza Ventures with Cisco Ventures, Workbench, and NLA; earning recognitions like CIOReview's 20 Most Promising DevOps Providers (2020), RSA Conference highlights, and 2024 BostInno Fire Award; and actively hiring for roles like full-stack developers while expanding its team of diverse experts.[3][4][6][7][8]
Wabbi was founded in 2018 by Brittany Greenfield, a serial enterprise software executive with a Duke undergrad, MIT MBA, and experience at NetSuite, Kronos, Cisco, and Cybereason, where she honed skills in spotting market opportunities and building teams.[1][2][4] The idea emerged from Greenfield's observation of the cybersecurity transformation lag: as DevOps accelerated development speed, security was "left behind," creating silos and inefficiencies amid rising code-based breaches (9/10 incidents).[1][3][4] She launched Wabbi to modernize AppSec deployment, drawing from the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy—accepting imperfection in code—to simplify complexity in imperfect development environments.[2]
Early traction included 2020 CIOReview recognition for pioneering SecDevOps by decentralizing AppSec management, letting dev teams own execution.[3] A pivotal $2M seed round shortly after, led by Mendoza Ventures (fresh off Startup Boston Investor of the Year), validated its potential to unify dev and sec ops.[4] Greenfield, supported by CFO Kim (a CPA with cross-industry finance expertise), built a passionate, diverse team focused on one goal: routine security in development.[2][5]
Wabbi stands out in the crowded AppSec market through these key strengths:
Wabbi rides the DevSecOps and ASPM wave, addressing the shift-left security trend amid surging code vulnerabilities (9/10 breaches) and gen AI accelerating threats while amplifying dev speed.[1][3][4] Timing is ideal: post-2018 founding aligns with DevOps maturity demanding SecDevOps evolution, where security must match pipeline efficiency without agility loss—Wabbi pioneers this by automating governance and feedback loops.[3][5] Market forces like regulatory pressures in fintech/healthcare, DOD needs, and enterprise scale-up favor its nuanced, scalable model over rigid tools.[1][2]
It influences the ecosystem by normalizing security as "routine," potentially obsoleting terms like SecDevOps, boosting ROI on existing AppSec investments, and enabling collaborative cultures—rippling to higher productivity and lower risk across tech stacks.[3][5][7][8]
Wabbi is poised to dominate ASPM as the "only true platform" bridging dev-sec divides, with expansion into more enterprises via its adaptive, risk-tolerant model amid AI-driven threats.[1][7][8] Next steps likely include product enhancements for gen AI security, deeper regulated-sector penetration, and further funding/team growth, fueled by accolades and Boston's tech hub.[1][4][6][8] Trends like zero-trust evolution and continuous everything will amplify its edge, evolving Wabbi from pioneer to standard-setter—simplifying imperfect code security to ship-ready standards, just as its wabi-sabi roots envision.[2]
Key people at Wabbi.
Wabbi has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $2.0M Seed in November 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2021 | $2.0M Seed | Amasia, Ampli Ventures, Cisco Investments, General Catalyst, Indeed.com, Inventure, Mendoza Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Recall Capital, Work-Bench, Clark Landry, Jeff Seibert, Wayne Chang |
