Endor Labs
Founded 2021 by Dimitri Stiliadis + Varun Badhwar (ex-Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud); reachability-aware SCA with AI for triage. $70M Series A Oct-2023 ($200M val; Lightspeed + Coatue + Dell Tech Capital); $93M total raised.
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At a glance
- Type
- AI-powered SCA + reachability analysis vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2021 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- $70M Series A Oct-2023 ($200M val); $93M total vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: SCA with function-level reachability + AI triage
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Founder Varun Badhwar built $173M-acquired RedLock; reachability analysis differentiator; strong VC backing.
Cons
Niche (SCA-focused); less broad than Snyk; AI is a more recent overlay than DeepCode AI.
Claims & capabilities
$70M Series A Oct-2023 (Lightspeed + Coatue + Dell; $200M val); $93M total; pioneered reachability analysis as primary SCA metric
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- yes — local stdio MCP server launched via npx or endorctl (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, etc.)
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (18 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is AI-powered SCA + reachability analysis vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Founded 2021 by Dimitri Stiliadis + Varun Badhwar (ex-Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud); … vendor
- Claims / benefits $70M Series A Oct-2023 (Lightspeed + Coatue + Dell; $200M val); $93M total; pioneered re… vendor
- Created 2021 (founded) vendor
- Funding $70M Series A Oct-2023 ($200M val); $93M total vendor
- Customers / scale HubSpot, Carta, Klaviyo + Fortune 500 vendor
- HQ Palo Alto vendor
- Founders / pedigree Varun Badhwar (CEO; founder of RedLock → Palo Alto Prisma Cloud); Dimitri Stiliadis (CTO) vendor
- MCP support yes — local stdio MCP server launched via npx or endorctl (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, V… vendor
- Optimised for SCA with function-level reachability + AI triage vendor
- Pros Founder Varun Badhwar built $173M-acquired RedLock; reachability analysis differentiator… vendor
- Cons Niche (SCA-focused); less broad than Snyk; AI is a more recent overlay than DeepCode AI. vendor
- Project & sources www.endorlabs.com/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- protocol-support mcp-server vendor
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