GitGuardian is a global post-Series C cybersecurity scale-up, with team members in France, Europe and in the USA.

Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes, Docker's co-founder. American and European top-tier VC firms have also invested in GitGuardian who raised its series C early 2026.

GitGuardian leads the way in securing the credential layer, helping organizations protect the secrets that let code, machines, and AI agents access systems with broad detection, identity context, and remediation at scale. Already trusted by 600K+ developers worldwide and by 50 of the fortune 500!

Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report 2026 to understand why.

A BIT OF HISTORY 📜

GitGuardian was co-founded in 2017 by two passionate engineers, with Eric Fourrier -actual CEO, who wondered if they could find secrets (API keys, authentication tokens, passwords) leaked on public GitHub.

And they did! They were astonished by the magnitude of what they found: not just random secrets but secrets exposing very large organizations and governments. This is how GitGuardian was born.

In just a few years, GitGuardian has become a global leader in secrets detection. With over 600,000 developers actively using our products, we generate more than 1.8 million alerts each year through our pro-bono service.

OUR SOLUTIONS 🔒

The GitGuardian Platform secures the credential layer across the systems where secrets live, from developer endpoints and internal environments to public exposure and the identities behind each credential. It brings that work together across three areas:

• Detect: Find and validate secrets across private repositories, CI/CD, collaboration tools, cloud configurations, developer machines, public sources, and other credential surfaces. Honeytokens add an active signal when a decoy credential is used.
• Remediate: Connect each secret to its owner, access, permissions, spread, and risk. GitGuardian helps teams prioritize the credentials that matter, group related findings, route incidents to the right owners, and drive resolution at scale.
• Prevent: Stop new secrets from leaking across the developer workflow, including pre-commit, pull requests, pushes, CI, and emerging AI workflows.

The result is one connected platform for finding, understanding, resolving, and preventing credential exposure before it becomes a breach path.

INTERNATIONALLY PRESENT AND RENOWNED 🌍

Our headquarters are in Paris, France, with a growing team in the United States and an office in New-York City, in Boston MA as well as representation in other parts of Europe. Our revenue mainly come from Enterprise customers (including Fortune 500), we generate more than 70% of our revenue from the US market and serve a global clientele.

We have been selected to be part of the French Tech 2030 and we are in the prestigious Sifted ranking of B2B SaaS Rising 100 startups that could achieve $1bn+ valuations in the near future!

Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian is the #1 security app on the GitHub marketplace.