When was Intrinsic founded?

Intrinsic was founded in 2015 and raised its 1st funding round within a year of its incorporation.

Where is Intrinsic located?

Intrinsic is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It is registered at Palo atto,california,united states.

How many employees does Intrinsic have?

As of Aug 31, 2026, the latest employee count at Intrinsic is 4.

Is Intrinsic a funded company?

Intrinsic is a funded company, having raised an undisclosed amount across 2 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on Oct 26, 2015.

When was the latest funding round of Intrinsic?

Intrinsic's latest funding was a $***** Seed round on 2016, with participation from 1 investor.

Where does Intrinsic rank among its competitors?

Intrinsic ranks 155th amongst 1042 active competitors, of which 130 are funded. It stands 11th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was CodeRabbit, which secured $143M in Aug, 2026.

Who are the top competitors of Intrinsic?

Intrinsic's top competitors include BigID, Sprinto and Semgrep. Among them, CodeRabbit secured the most recent funding round in August, 2026.

Intrinsic - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

Intrinsic (formerly GitStar) is a stealth mode cybersecurity startup. Company is developing solution for application level security of Node.js web apps and plans to extend to other server side scripting language. Funded by Stanford University professors and few undisclosed VC and capital firms of Silicon Valley. Co-Founder, David Mazieres is CS professor at Standford and has been awarded as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2002), Career Award, National Science Foundation (2001) and MIT George R. Sprowls award for best thesis in computer science, MIT (2000).

Website: intrinsic.com
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Registered Address: Palo atto,california,united states

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2015

Location

San Francisco, United States

Stage

Acqui-Hired

Latest Funding Round

Seed, 2016, $*****

Investors

August Capital & 4 more

Ranked

155^th among 1042 active competitors

Employee Count

4 as on Aug 31, 2026

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Intrinsic is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
GREENPLUM, INC CIN: 943292913 , Belgium, Active	Dec 31, 2002	-	-	-

Intrinsic has raised funding over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on Oct 26, 2015. Its latest funding round was a Seed round on 2016 for $*****. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Intrinsic has 5 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Intrinsic:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
2016	1864	Seed	3344	4687	3099	4394
Oct 26, 2015	2319242	Seed	1894608	7547853	5453326	Andreessen Horowitz

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The founders of Intrinsic are Devon Rifkin and David Mazieres.

Here are the details of Intrinsic's key team members:

Devon Rifkin: Co-founder & CTO of Intrinsic.
David Mazieres: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Intrinsic.

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Intrinsic's employee count trend

Intrinsic has 4 employees as of Aug 26. Here is Intrinsic's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Intrinsic include BigID, Sprinto and Semgrep. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Intrinsic, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	BigID 2016, New York City (United States), Series D	Provider of data security, privacy, compliance, and AI governance platform	$308M	Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global Management ... & 34 others	72/100
2nd	Sprinto 2020, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Provider of a platform for continuous security and compliance management	$32.2M	Elevation Capital, Accel & 3 others	70/100
3rd	Semgrep 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series D	Platform offering code analysis and review solutions	$193M	Redpoint Ventures, Felicis Ventures & 4 others	68/100
4th	Code Metal 2023, Boston (United States), Series B	Provider of AI-powered solutions for automated code translation and edge deployment	$184M	Salesforce Ventures, Shield Capital & 11 others	66/100
5th	Contrast Security 2014, Los Altos (United States), Series E	Cloud based platform offering application self protection solutions	$269M	Liberty Strategic Capital, Warburg Pincus ... & 14 others	64/100
6th	CodeRabbit 2023, San Francisco (United States), Series C	AI powered code review platform	$231M	Atomico, Smash Capital & 14 others	64/100
7th	HICX 2004, London (United Kingdom), Series B	Provider of supplier management platform facilitating supplier information and process orchestration	$41.8M	Wavecrest Growth Partners, Espresso Capital ... & 5 others	63/100
8th	Protectt.ai 2020, Mumbai (India), Series A	AI powered application security and threat detection platform	$16.6M	bajajfinance.com, Bessemer Venture Partners ... & 5 others	63/100
9th	Qodo 2022, Tel Aviv (Israel), Series B	AI powered code generation platform	$120M	Susa Ventures, Qumra Capital & 11 others	63/100
10th	Codacy 2012, Lisbon (Portugal), Series B	Platform offering automated code review solution	$29.9M	Join Capital, EQT & 11 others	61/100
155th	Intrinsic 2015, San Francisco (United States), Acqui-Hired	Stealth Mode: Server side web application security	-	August Capital, Hanover Capital & 3 others	33/100