Invest in Dark Sky
Dark Sky Technology was founded in early 2021 to address insecurity of the software supply chain¹.
The recent Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity² requires vendors to include a software-bill-of-materials (SBOM) in future government procurements. To date, the market of tools to produce SBOMs is still in its infancy, much less deeper analysis of third-party packages and developer trustworthiness.
Given that up to 96% of even proprietary software contains open source code³, Dark Sky is focused on security analytics of the open source ecosystem (ex: GitHub). The 650% increase in software supply chain attacks within just the past year¹ highlights the urgent and growing need for solutions. The market size for Software Composition Analysis was ~$250M in 2020, and is expected to quadruple over the next 5 years⁴.
The company is actively building a SaaS-based source code analytics platform called BulletProof Trust which provides software teams and CISOs with security insights into the open source packages they are leveraging (i.e. - living SBOMs, ongoing vulnerability identification/management, suspicious code contributions, developer trustworthiness scores, etc). The initial product launch happened on April 5th with an initial target market of U.S. Aerospace & Defense⁵.
Dark Sky is owned and led by a seasoned team of cybersecurity entrepreneurs with deep relationships across A&D and several past startup-to-exit successes. The team is currently raising $3-5M to onboard additional engineering talent in order to speed platform development and go-to-market success.