DevSecOps company Spectral on Wednesday emerged from stealth mode with $6.2 million in seed funding from Israeli venture capital firms Amiti and MizMaa.
Spectral is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and it was founded in mid-2020 by Dotan Nahum, who will serve as the company’s CEO, Lior Reuven, Uri Shamay and Idan Didi.
Spectral says it has developed a solution that is designed to help organizations quickly and easily find potentially costly security-related issues — such as unintentional exposure of internal API keys and passwords — in code, configurations and other developer assets, without disrupting workflows.
The solution uses a set of detectors that is continuously expanded, being able to scan any programming language. Customers can also build their own detectors using a purpose-built query language named SPEQL.
Spectral works with many developer systems and it can be integrated with tools such as Jenkins, Travis and CircleCI, as well as plugins for products and frameworks such as Netlify, Webpack and Gatsby. The company says the customer’s code and other assets are never sent outside their perimeter.
“Scanning tools today take long minutes or even hours to run in a given pipeline,” Nahum said. “Developers just don’t have that kind of time, or the funds (many CI providers meter by the minute). Some developers are so overwhelmed by slow, irrelevant, and non-intuitive results that they stop using scanners altogether. There’s an obvious need for a robust yet simple, fast yet extensive product that’s developer-first and won’t slow down DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines.”
Spectral claims its platform is already used by some major organizations.
Related: Source Code Security Firm Cycode Launches With $4.6 Million in Funding
Related: Cloud Security Company Accurics Emerges From Stealth Mode
Related: Cloud Security Firm Wiz Emerges From Stealth With $100M in Funding
Related: Online Infrastructure Security Firm Cyberpion Emerges From Stealth

Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a contributing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.
More from Eduard Kovacs
- Industry Reactions to Hive Ransomware Takedown: Feedback Friday
- US Reiterates $10 Million Reward Offer After Disruption of Hive Ransomware
- Hive Ransomware Operation Shut Down by Law Enforcement
- UK Gov Warns of Phishing Attacks Launched by Iranian, Russian Cyberspies
- Dozens of Cybersecurity Companies Announced Layoffs in Past Year
- Security Update for Chrome 109 Patches 6 Vulnerabilities
- New Open Source OT Security Tool Helps Address Impact of Upcoming Microsoft Patch
- Forward Networks Raises $50 Million in Series D Funding
Latest News
- Critical Vulnerability Impacts Over 120 Lexmark Printers
- BIND Updates Patch High-Severity, Remotely Exploitable DoS Flaws
- Industry Reactions to Hive Ransomware Takedown: Feedback Friday
- Microsoft Urges Customers to Patch Exchange Servers
- Iranian APT Leaks Data From Saudi Arabia Government Under New Persona
- US Reiterates $10 Million Reward Offer After Disruption of Hive Ransomware
- Cyberattacks Target Websites of German Airports, Admin
- US Infiltrates Big Ransomware Gang: ‘We Hacked the Hackers’
