HackerOne - About the company
HackerOne is a series E company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2012 by Alex Rice, Merijn Terheggen and Jobert Abma. It operates as an AI powered security testing platform. HackerOne has raised $159M in funding from investors like New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark and GP Bullhound. The company has 94 active competitors, including 21 funded and 4 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Applause, TestIO and Bugcrowd.
Company Details
AI powered security testing platform. It combines AI with security researchers to find and fix security, privacy, and AI vulnerabilities across the software development lifecycle. The platform offers bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, pentesting, AI red teaming, and code security. The features of the product include reports, automation, security testing, and more. It caters its solution to industries such as healthcare, retail, hospitality, and more.
- Website
- www.hackerone.com/
- Social
- Phone Number
- +1 **********
- Registered Address
- San Francisco, California
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2012
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$159M in 8 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
3rd among 94 active competitors
Employee Count
7,086 as on Jul 31, 2026
Investment & Acquisitions
Legal entities associated with HackerOne
HackerOne is associated with 2 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
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HACKERONE UK LIMITED CIN: 14123945 , United Kingdom, Active | May 22, 2022 | - | 64 (As on Jan 31, 2025) | |
HACKERONE, INC. CIN: 462389456 , United States, Active | Dec 31, 1999 | - | 272 (As on Dec 31, 2024) | - |
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HackerOne's funding and investors
HackerOne has raised a total funding of $159M over 8 rounds. Its first funding round was on May 28, 2014. Its latest funding round was a Series E round on Jan 27, 2022 for $*****. 5 investors participated in its latest round. HackerOne has 9 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of HackerOne:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Jan 27, 2022 | 2102320 | Series E | 9491893 | 9420960 | 4478941 | 8354794 |
Sep 08, 2019 | 7257775 | Series D | 7368093 | 7481545 | 4524065 | |
Dec 17, 2018 | 2140581 | Grant (prize money) | 5269746 | 5010397 | 6311116 |
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HackerOne's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of HackerOne are Alex Rice, Merijn Terheggen and Jobert Abma. Kara Sprague is the CEO of HackerOne.
Here are the details of HackerOne's key team members:
- Alex Rice: Co-Founder & CTO of HackerOne and founder of 1 other company. They are also an angel investor in 2 startups.Contact Info: 2 email addresses
- Merijn Terheggen: Co-Founder of HackerOne and founder of 3 other companies, GIANT Protocol, GIANT Protocol and Kalooga. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Jobert Abma: Co-Founder of HackerOne and founder of 1 other company. Contact Info: 3 email addresses
- Kara Sprague: CEO of HackerOne. Contact Info: 1 email address
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HackerOne's employee count trend
HackerOne has 7,086 employees as of Jul 26. Here is HackerOne's employee count trend over the years:
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HackerOne's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of HackerOne include Applause, TestIO and Bugcrowd. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of HackerOne, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Applause 1966, Framingham (United States), Acquired | Platform offering crowdsourced testing solution | $116M | 74/100 | |
2nd | Continuous and launch testing | $5M | 70/100 | ||
3rd | HackerOne 2012, San Francisco (United States), Series E | AI powered security testing platform | $159M | 70/100 | |
4th | Bugcrowd 2012, San Francisco (United States), Series E | Provider of crowdsourced security platform offering vulnerability disclosure and penetration testing | $184M | 66/100 | |
5th | Websites and mobile application crowd testing platform | $14.7M | 66/100 | ||
6th | Yes We Hack 2013, Paris (France), Series C | Provider of a global bug bounty and vulnerability management platform | $52M | 59/100 | |
7th | Platform offering crowd testing, quality optimization, experience and security solutions | $15.2M | 55/100 | ||
8th | Provider of security testing and bug bounty platform | $27.2M | 49/100 | ||
9th |  HackenProof 2017, Tallinn (Estonia), Unfunded | Provider of web3-focused bug bounty and crowdsourced cybersecurity testing platform | - | - | 49/100 |
10th | Global App Testing 2013, San Francisco (United States), Seed | Platform offering crowdsourced app testing solution | - | 46/100 |
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HackerOne's Investments and acquisitions
HackerOne has acquired 2 companies including PullRequest and Breaker 101. HackerOne has not made any investments as of now.Reports related to HackerOne
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News related to HackerOne
Filter this listMedia has covered HackerOne for a total of 7 events in the last 1 year, 5 of them have been about company updates and 1 about partnerships.
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HackerOne and Wiz Integrate Cloud Security Platforms for Vulnerability PrioritizationSecurityBrief•May 15, 2026•Wiz, HackerOne
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HackerOne advances offensive security with agentic AI system & Code availabilitySiliconAngle•Oct 15, 2025•HackerOne
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Integrity360 partners with HackerOne for enhanced cyber securityTechCentral Ireland•Sep 09, 2025•Integrity360, HackerOne
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HackerOne brings AI security agent Hai to AWS Marketplace usersIT Brief UK•Jul 23, 2025•HackerOne, Amazon Web Services
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Cycode & HackerOne integrate to speed software vulnerability fixesSecurityBrief•Jul 18, 2025•HackerOne, Cycode
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Wald.ai Launches Contextual Data Loss Protection For Ai Platforms, Closes $4m Seed Roundintelligence360•Dec 18, 2024•Wald.ai, Inventus Capital Partners, Entrada Ventures, HackerOne and 1 other
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