Drew Dennison

Drew Dennison is a Co-founder at Semgrep, an application security platform based in San Francisco, California. Prior to establishing the enterprise software company originally known as r2c, he worked as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dennison has helped guide Semgrep's technical direction and commercial growth, contributing to the software company securing over $93 million in total venture capital funding, including a $53 million Series C round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners in April 2023. The firm's open-source static analysis engine currently records millions of downloads and is actively deployed by numerous major enterprise security teams globally. His current professional focus centers on advancing developer productivity tools, DevSecOps methodologies, and static application security testing infrastructure.