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 Alto, California.

How many employees does Intrinsic have?

As of May 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. Its primary sector is Cybersecurity. In United States, the Cybersecurity sector has seen $5.29B in funding in 2026 to date.

Where does Intrinsic rank among its competitors?

Intrinsic ranks 18th amongst 50 active competitors, of which 14 are funded. It stands 11th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Raven, which secured $20M in Mar, 2026.

Who are the top competitors of Intrinsic?

Intrinsic's top competitors include Contrast Security, Protectt.ai and Operant AI. Among them, Raven secured the most recent funding round in March, 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 Alto, California

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2015

Location

San Francisco, United States

Stage

Acqui-Hired

Latest Funding Round

Seed, 2016, $*****

Investors

August Capital & 4 more

Ranked

18^th among 50 active competitors

Employee Count

4 as on May 31, 2026

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Intrinsic is associated with 2 legal entities given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
GREENPLUM, INC CIN: 943292913 , Belgium, Active	Dec 31, 2002	-	-	-
VMware, Inc CIN: 943292913 , United States, Active	Feb 09, 1998	-	-	-

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	2217	Seed	6444	1321	7756	3527
Oct 26, 2015	3022146	Seed	1818726	8750556	3968070	Andreessen Horowitz

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The founders of Intrinsic are David Mazieres and Devon Rifkin.

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

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

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Intrinsic's employee count trend

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

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Top competitors of Intrinsic include Contrast Security, Protectt.ai and Operant AI. 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	Contrast Security 2014, Los Altos (United States), Series E	Cloud based platform offering application self protection solutions	$269M	General Catalyst, Liberty Strategic Capital ... & 14 others	70/100
2nd	Protectt.ai 2020, Mumbai (India), Series A	AI powered application security and threat detection platform	$16.6M	bajajfinance.com, Bessemer Venture Partners ... & 5 others	64/100
3rd	Operant AI 2020, San Francisco (United States), Series A	Developer of runtime security solutions for cloud, AI, and applications	$13.5M	Felicis Ventures, SineWave Ventures & 8 others	60/100
4th	Jscrambler 2014, Porto (Portugal), Series A	Cloud based JavaScript protection and web page monitoring solution provider	$23.3M	Ace Capital Partners, Bright Pixel Capital ... & 6 others	56/100
5th	Sqreen 2010, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	Cloud based threat detection in web application	$16.4M	Y Combinator, Alven & 12 others	51/100
6th	V-Key 2011, Redwood City (United States), Series C	Mobile app security solutions provider empowering businesses and protecting users	$16M	Ant Group, IPV Capital & 1 others	51/100
7th	Prevoty 2013, Los Angeles (United States), Acquired	Cloud security solutions provider specializing in application and data protection	$24.3M	Core Ventures Group, ForgePoint Capital & 10 others	50/100
8th	TrueFort 2015, Weehawken (United States), Series B	Application security solutions provider	$48M	Shasta Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners ... & 6 others	48/100
9th	BlueCedar Networks 2016, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Developer of mobile app security platform integrating with app delivery tools	$27M	Grayhawk Capital, Generation Ventures & 7 others	47/100
10th	Raven 2022, Palo Alto (United States), Seed	Cloud and AI based spend management solutions	$20M	Norwest, SentinelOne & 8 others	45/100
18th	Intrinsic 2015, San Francisco (United States), Acqui-Hired	Stealth Mode: Server side web application security	-	August Capital, Hanover Capital & 3 others	32/100