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IDC IDC Innovators: Autonomous Penetration Testing for DevSecOps, 2026 IDC profiles seven vendors, including Corgea, building AI agent–driven autonomous penetration testing that keeps pace with fast release cycles, API-heavy architectures, and AI-generated code. Corgea’s second IDC Innovator recognition. Analyst research Latio 2026 Latio Application Security Report Latio names Corgea an Application Security AI Platform Innovator. The report draws on interviews with more than 100 vendors, practitioners, and buyers to map how AI is reshaping scanning, remediation, and code-to-cloud visibility. Analyst research TechCrunch The 9 top cybersecurity startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield TechCrunch’s pick of the standout cybersecurity companies from the Startup Battlefield 200, highlighting Corgea’s AI-driven code scanning, detection of broken security logic such as authentication, and agents that secure code across popular languages. Press coverage

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2026

  1. IDC Analyst research Katie Norton

    IDC Innovators: Autonomous Penetration Testing for DevSecOps, 2026

    IDC profiles seven vendors, including Corgea, building AI agent–driven autonomous penetration testing that keeps pace with fast release cycles, API-heavy architectures, and AI-generated code. Corgea’s second IDC Innovator recognition.

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  2. Y Combinator Company news

    Launch YC: Corgea: Agentic Pentesting

    Corgea launches AI Pentest on Y Combinator: an autonomous penetration testing engine that reasons about an application instead of running a checklist, and finishes in hours rather than weeks.

    AI Pentest

  3. IDC Analyst research Katie Norton

    IDC Market Glance: DevSecOps, 2Q26

    Corgea is included in IDC’s current-state taxonomy of key DevSecOps vendors, spanning secure-by-design, application security testing, application protection, API security, and application vulnerability management.

  4. Latio Analyst research

    2026 Latio Application Security Report

    Latio names Corgea an Application Security AI Platform Innovator. The report draws on interviews with more than 100 vendors, practitioners, and buyers to map how AI is reshaping scanning, remediation, and code-to-cloud visibility.

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2025

  1. TechCrunch Press coverage Julie Bort

    The 9 top cybersecurity startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield

    TechCrunch’s pick of the standout cybersecurity companies from the Startup Battlefield 200, highlighting Corgea’s AI-driven code scanning, detection of broken security logic such as authentication, and agents that secure code across popular languages.

  2. TechCrunch Press coverage Isabelle Johannessen

    The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut

    Corgea is selected for the Startup Battlefield 200 in the cybersecurity category: TechCrunch’s curated list of early-stage startups chosen to exhibit at Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco.

  3. Latio Analyst research James Berthoty

    2025 Latio AI Security Report

    Corgea is recognized as an AI Security Leader in Latio’s map of the AI security market, which sorts vendors across end-user data control, AI posture management, and AI application protection.

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  4. Help Net Security Press coverage

    Corgea BLAST uncovers hidden vulnerabilities in code

    Help Net Security covers the launch of BLAST, Corgea’s AI-driven detection engine that pairs business-logic-aware vulnerability discovery with automated remediation.

  5. PR Newswire Press releases

    Corgea Launches BLAST: Transforming Cybersecurity with AI-Driven Code Security Platform

    San Francisco. Corgea announces the public launch of BLAST (Business Logic Application Testing), combining LLMs with AST-based analysis to find and fix the vulnerabilities traditional scanners miss.

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  6. Corgea Company news

    Corgea Named Best SAST Auto-Fixing Solution in Recent Analyst Report

    Latio’s Actually Useful Product Guide for Q1 2025 scores Corgea’s multi-step agentic fixes 9.4/10 for accuracy, with fixes generated for more than 77% of findings.

2024

  1. FinTech Global Press coverage

    AI-driven cybersecurity startup Corgea raises $2.6m in seed round

    Coverage of Corgea’s seed round led by Shorooq Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Propeller, Decacorn Capital, and Unbound Ventures.

  2. Forbes Middle East Press coverage

    Cybersecurity Startup Corgea Secures $2.5M In Seed Funding Led by Shorooq Partners

    Forbes Middle East reports on Corgea’s seed round, led by Abu Dhabi’s Shorooq Partners, with Y Combinator and angels including YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim and SecurityScorecard co-founder Sam Kassoumeh.

  3. IDC Analyst research Katie Norton

    IDC Innovators: DevSecOps Automated Remediation, 2024

    IDC profiles four start-ups delivering DevSecOps automated remediation, naming Corgea an IDC Innovator for reducing application security vulnerability backlogs with contextual, code-specific fixes.

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  4. Dark Reading Contributed articles Ahmad Sadeddin, CEO

    The Biggest Mistake Security Teams Make When Buying Tools

    A contributed column from Corgea’s founder on why security teams buy for detection and forget about the cost of acting on what they find.

  5. Hacker News Company news

    Launch HN: Corgea (YC S23) – Auto fix vulnerable code

    Corgea’s public launch on Hacker News: AI-generated fixes for findings from existing SAST scanners, covering roughly 900 CWE types.

Recognition Backed by Y Combinator. Two-time IDC Innovator. Recognized by Latio. The canonical record of every credential, with the report titles and document numbers to verify them.

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Corgea is an AI-native application security platform that finds exploitable risk in code, dependencies, and cloud configuration, then delivers review-ready fixes in the developer workflow. Its BLAST engine pairs large language models with AST-based analysis to detect business-logic vulnerabilities that traditional scanners miss, and its agentic AI pentest validates exploitability in hours rather than weeks. Founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator, Corgea is a two-time IDC Innovator and is headquartered in San Francisco.

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Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founder & CEO
Ahmad Sadeddin
Accelerator
Y Combinator, Summer 2023
Investors
Shorooq Partners, Y Combinator, Decacorn, Unbound Ventures, Propeller Ventures
Product
AI SAST, dependency scanning, secrets, IaC, and agentic AI pentesting

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