Archipelo

Name: Archipelo
Brand: Archipelo

Empowering Organizations with Developer Security—to Increase Software Security and Compliance.

Est 2019|Valuation $62M|Raised $19M

LinkedIn 944|Website|FTEs 18|HQ San Francisco, California, US

MarketsApplication Security Testing (AST)Code Security

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

- How Archipelo differentiates - Archipelo emphasizes provenance and actor attribution: the product is positioned to provide context about how and by whom code changes were introduced, including automation and AI-assisted workflows. - Where competitors may be stronger - Breadth and maturity - Established vendors such as Snyk, Checkmarx, and Veracode have broader integration ecosystems, long track records, and extensive peer-review coverage. - Public proof and peer reviews - Larger vendors typically have more third-party reviews, analyst coverage, and customer references available for procurement validation. - Ecosystem collaboration - Reported technical partnerships have focused on correlating vulnerability findings from established AST tools with development-origin context, indicating that Archipelo may be positioned as an enrichment layer that complements existing scanning tools rather than replacing them.

	Archipelo	Snyk	Checkmarx
Starting Price	Not publicly disclosed (demo-led, quote-based)	Public pricing varies by product/tier (not sourced here)	Typically quote-based; pricing varies by offering and procurement channel
Best For	Organizations seeking provenance and actor attribution across human and automated code production	Teams focused on developer-first vulnerability management across dependencies, containers, IaC, and code	Enterprises requiring broad application security testing and governance with deep scanning capabilities
Key Strength	Designed to collect software-creation events and link findings to actor/context; aims to provide attribution across humans and automated agents	Mature ecosystem for SCA/SAST/container/IaC with strong developer integrations	Established enterprise AppSec capabilities with wide language and pipeline coverage
Key Weakness	Limited publicly available third-party reviews and case studies; enterprise security and compliance documentation not clearly published	Can become costly at scale and may contribute to tooling sprawl	Known for complex deployments and professional-services-led rollouts

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

How Archipelo differentiates
- Archipelo emphasizes provenance and actor attribution: the product is positioned to provide context about how and by whom code changes were introduced, including automation and AI-assisted workflows.
Where competitors may be stronger
- Breadth and maturity
  - Established vendors such as Snyk, Checkmarx, and Veracode have broader integration ecosystems, long track records, and extensive peer-review coverage.
- Public proof and peer reviews
  - Larger vendors typically have more third-party reviews, analyst coverage, and customer references available for procurement validation.
Ecosystem collaboration
- Reported technical partnerships have focused on correlating vulnerability findings from established AST tools with development-origin context, indicating that Archipelo may be positioned as an enrichment layer that complements existing scanning tools rather than replacing them.

	Archipelo	Snyk	Checkmarx
Starting Price	Not publicly disclosed (demo-led, quote-based)	Public pricing varies by product/tier (not sourced here)	Typically quote-based; pricing varies by offering and procurement channel
Best For	Organizations seeking provenance and actor attribution across human and automated code production	Teams focused on developer-first vulnerability management across dependencies, containers, IaC, and code	Enterprises requiring broad application security testing and governance with deep scanning capabilities
Key Strength	Designed to collect software-creation events and link findings to actor/context; aims to provide attribution across humans and automated agents	Mature ecosystem for SCA/SAST/container/IaC with strong developer integrations	Established enterprise AppSec capabilities with wide language and pipeline coverage
Key Weakness	Limited publicly available third-party reviews and case studies; enterprise security and compliance documentation not clearly published	Can become costly at scale and may contribute to tooling sprawl	Known for complex deployments and professional-services-led rollouts