About Mend.io

Security should empower, not block

We’re engineers and security practitioners who got tired of watching great teams slow down because security was painful, noisy, and disconnected from how developers actually work.

Who we are

Built to close the gap between speed and security

Over three-quarters of organizations cite shadow AI as a problem — and most can’t answer basic questions about what AI is running, where it lives, or how it behaves. You can’t secure what you can’t see. We’re here to change that — starting with visibility, and connecting every layer of risk into one continuously governed system.

Pioneered software composition analysis

One of the first platforms to make open source risk visible and manageable at enterprise scale.

Expanded across the full AppSec stack

SCA, SAST, secrets detection, reachability — closing more gaps as the attack surface grew.

Securing the full AI lifecycle

Connecting the code layer and AI layer into one governed system — from supply chain through runtime.

What we believe

A few things we hold to be true

The last line of defense is already too late.

Runtime protection is visible and easy to justify — but catching threats after deployment means compensating for structural weaknesses at a scale and speed it was never designed to handle. The fix happens upstream, in the pipeline, before code ships.

Developers aren't the problem. Noise is.

Alert fatigue isn’t security. We show what’s exploitable — not just what’s present.

AI security can't be a point tool.

The dangerous gaps live at the seams between layers. That’s exactly where Mend.io sits.

Independence matters more now.

Three of five AI security vendors are now inside big platforms. We’re not beholden to any model provider.

Compliance should be a byproduct.

Every test and discovery should continuously feed a governed posture — always audit-ready, never a manual project.

More code isn't automatically more valuable.

AI tools let developers ship faster than ever. But doubling output without security governance just grows the attack surface faster. Speed without resolution isn’t progress — it’s accumulated risk.