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Truffle Security funding, valuation and investors
Secrets scanning and non-human identity security — makers of TruffleHog.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B
$25M · November 2025
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$25M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
growth · San Francisco, California, USA
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Intel Capital , Andreessen Horowitz
Overview
Truffle Security maintains TruffleHog, a leading open-source secrets detection tool, and TruffleHog Enterprise for verified remediation across code, CI/CD, and cloud environments. In November 2025, the company raised a $25M Series B co-led by Intel Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, launching TruffleHog GCP Analyze for Google Cloud service account leak visibility. The company reports doubled revenue in the prior year and 23,000+ GitHub stars on the OSS project.
Why Truffle Security is interesting
TruffleHog's open-source roots (23k GitHub stars) fueled enterprise revenue — Intel Capital and a16z co-led $25M Series B as credential leaks became breach #1 cause.
Product & use cases
TruffleHog scans repositories and cloud environments for leaked secrets and non-human identities (NHIs), verifies live credentials, and prioritizes remediation — enterprise tier adds policy and integrations.
- Engineering teams preventing credential commits in CI/CD
- Security teams auditing GCP/AWS/Azure service account exposure
- Compliance programs requiring secrets scanning in SDLC
Key facts
- Series B (Nov 2025): $25M co-led by Intel Capital and a16z
- TruffleHog: 23k+ GitHub stars, 15M downloads
- Revenue more than doubled in year before Series B
- Launched TruffleHog GCP Analyze for cloud NHI visibility
Funding history (newest first)
Series B
2025-11 $25M- Intel Capital (lead)
- Andreessen Horowitz (lead)
Investors in our directory
Funds linked from Truffle Security's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.
Competitive landscape
Edge: OSS developer adoption (15M+ downloads) converts to enterprise pipeline — verification engine reduces false positives versus regex-only scanners.
Secrets scanning is table stakes for DevSecOps; TruffleHog competes on verification accuracy and NHI expansion beyond code repos into cloud identity leaks.
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GitGuardian direct
Secrets detection for dev teams; similar OSS-to-enterprise motion.
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Snyk adjacent
Broader DevSecOps; secrets scanning one module.
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Native GitHub secret scanning incumbent
Platform feature; less cross-cloud NHI depth.
Notable stories
- Truffle Security's Series B coincided with GCP Analyze launch — extending from git leaks to cloud service account exposure, where breaches increasingly start (PR Newswire, Nov 2025).
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