On May 22, 2024, the AI data security and privacy control startup headquartered in San Francisco, USAHoundDog.aiannounced it has raised $3.1 million in seed funding. Investors in this round include E14, Mozilla Ventures, and ex/ante, as well as several angel investors.
The company plans to use the raised funds to drive the general availability of its AI-powered code scanner, which is designed to identify sensitive data exposure during the development process while significantly reducing compliance costs.
HoundDog.ai was founded in 2023 by Amjad Afanah and provides enterprises with an AI-powered code scanner for implementing data security and privacy controls at the code level. HoundDog.ai's cloud platform helps organizations apply data security and privacy controls while developers write code. This proactive approach helps organizations guard against potential threats in advance and reduces the financial and operational costs of discovering these vulnerabilities in production. The company's solution can continuously detect vulnerabilities that traditional static application security testing (SAST) scanners overlook, which may expose sensitive data in logs, files, tokens, cookies, or through third-party systems. HoundDog.ai also tracks and visualizes the flow of sensitive data in real time and records processing activities, and can scan more than 3 million lines of code in less than 3 minutes.
(Source:SiliconANGLE）