StackHawk today announced it has taken on $12 million in additional funding from Sapphire and Costanoa Ventures to help security teams keep up with the pace of AI-driven development. With this funding, StackHawk will expedite shipping products and features that make it simple for modern teams embracing AI-driven development to scale safely, especially in data-sensitive industries such as healthcare and fintech. Sapphire and Costanoa Ventures also co-led StackHawk's Series B funding in 2022, bringing the company's total funding to $47.3 million.

StackHawk is making API and application security testing part of software delivery. The StackHawk platform offers engineering teams the ability to find and fix application bugs at any stage of software development and gives security teams insight into the security posture of applications and APIs being developed. Built by a strong founding team with deep experience in security and DevOps, and funded by some of the best venture investors in the business, StackHawk is leading the shift left movement by putting API and application security testing into the hands of engineers the moment they build code.