PortSwigger, the British company behind the popular Burp Suite pen-test utilities, has banked a massive $112 million investment after 16 years as a bootstrapped startup.
The company said the capital was provided by Brighton Park Capital, a U.S. investment firm focused on growth-stage companies.
This is PortSwigger’s first-ever external investment since its 2008 launch with software in the web application and penetration testing categories.
The company’s two flagship products — Burp Suite Professional and Burp Suite Enterprise — are well-entrenched among enterprises looking to automate the security testing of applications and APIs.
The products offer automated DAST scanning to provide visibility of a web application’s attack surface, and a pen-testing toolkit to automate repetitive testing tasks in the security assessment processes.
PortSwigger says it has about 20,000 customers of all sizes, including Microsoft, Amazon, FedEx, and Salesforce.
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