Twelve million US dollars for Code Intelligence

The team - of Code Intelligence. Simon Hecht All rights reserved! - Startup helps developers deliver secure software Code Intelligence, which grew out of a startup at the University of Bonn, is receiving $12 million in funding led by Tola Capital. Code Intelligence helps developers by providing a platform to find and fix security vulnerabilities before the product is finished. The startup was founded in 2018 by Sergej Dechand, Khaled Yakdan and Matthew Smith from the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bonn, while the scientists were conducting research on IT security and privacy. It received EXIST funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, which supports researchers and students in preparing their start-ups. Code Intelligence is aimed at modern development teams in medium to large companies and is used by well-known technology leaders such as Bosch, Continental and Deutsche Telekom. The startup also works closely with Google and has found more than 500 vulnerabilities in more than 30 projects with its Java fuzzing engine Jazzer.