Federacy blog · Jul 2020
Added free disclosure programs and Security.txt / PGP support; also aligned policies with industry-standard terms.
Penetration testing and bug bounty platform.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Federacy is a YC S18, founder-led security testing and bug bounty platform for startups. It sells manual penetration tests plus managed bug bounty / vulnerability disclosure services, and public sources identify James Sulinski as CTO co-founder and William Sulinski as co-founder and former CEO; no current CEO is clearly publicly confirmed.
Primary product
Managed bug bounty and manual penetration testing platform
Founded
2018
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Cybersecurity / offensive security
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$120K
Latest round
Seed VC · Aug 2018
Latest amount
$120K
Aug 2018 · Y Combinator
Investors
Small, founder-led, security-research oriented culture focused on human-led testing, careful researcher vetting, and close customer support via Slack.
Compensation
No public compensation data found.
Benefits
Pricing
Tiered subscription pricing for disclosure, bug bounty, and managed programs, plus project pricing for penetration tests and a 20% award-transaction fee.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$5M
Estimated monthly visits
1.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Federacy blog · Jul 2020
Added free disclosure programs and Security.txt / PGP support; also aligned policies with industry-standard terms.
Federacy blog · Jun 2020
Released a reporting API and dashboard for Coinbase's Salus open-source security scanner.
Federacy blog · Jun 2020
Announced a GitHub Action for Salus focused on SAST, dependency scanning, and secret scanning.
Federacy blog · Oct 2019
Updated the product with assessments and two-factor authentication support.
Federacy blog · Feb 2019
Public release announcement for the Federacy security testing and bug bounty platform.