Overview
- History
- Headquartered in Boston, MA, Rapid7 was founded in 2000. In response to the increasing security threat environment, the company developed its award-winning vulnerability management solution Nexpose. In 2009, Rapid7 acquired Metasploit, the leading penetration testing platform with the world’s largest quality assured exploit database. The combination of both products has resulted in the company’s integrated security risk intelligence portfolio, designed to provide organizations with unique insight into their threat and risk posture.
- Investors
- Rapid7 has received $59 million in funding from Bain Capital Ventures and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV).
- Financials
- Rapid7 is a privately-held company, recognized by Inc. Magazine and Deloitte as one of the fastest growing security companies worldwide. The company has increased revenue over the last four years by more than 900 percent.
- Leadership
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- Mike Tuchen, CEO
- Corey E. Thomas, President & COO
- Tas Giakouminakis, Co-Founder & CTO
- Tim O'Toole, Chief Financial Officer
- Christina Luconi, Chief People Officer
- Carol Meyers, Chief Marketing Officer
- Chad Loder, Co-Founder & Vice President of Security Solutions
- Patty Wright, Vice President of Professional Services
- HD Moore, Chief Security Officer & Chief Architect, Metasploit
- Richard Perkett, Vice President of Engineering
- Kara Gilbert, Vice President of Sales, Americas
- Jennifer Benson, Vice President of Customer Experience
- Bernd Leger, Vice President of Marketing
- Richard Li, Vice President of Products & Strategy
- Board
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- Alan Matthews, Co-Founder and Chairman, Rapid7
- Mike Tuchen, CEO, Rapid7
- Ben Nye, Bain Capital Ventures
- Ben Holzman, Bain Capital Ventures
- Tim McAdam, Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV)
- Chris Young, SVP, Cisco
- Jack Sweeney, Executive Chairman at Apparent Networks
- Solutions
- Rapid7® is the leading provider of security risk intelligence solutions. Rapid7’s integrated vulnerability management and penetration testing products, Nexpose® and Metasploit®, empower organizations to obtain accurate, actionable and contextual intelligence into their threat and risk posture and meet regulatory compliance.
- Community Advantage
- Rapid7 is strongly committed to the broader security community with its free products, open source projects and security community events. Rapid7 owns the Metasploit Project, the largest open source project for penetration testing and also sponsors other open source projects including w3af, a leading open source web application platform and John the Ripper, a popular password cracking tool. The company’s free products are downloaded more than one million times per year and enhanced further by over 125,000 security community users and contributors. Additionally the company organizes the UNITED Security Summit, the industry’s first security community event entirely focused on empowering defenders with new ideas and technologies. Customers benefit from Rapid7’s community engagement from accelerated development, collective threat and risk intelligence and accelerated access to evolving threats from a community of users and security experts.
- Customers
- We provide products and services to a broad spectrum of customers and organizations within diverse industry sectors, including some of the world’s largest financial institutions, healthcare and energy providers, technology and communication companies, retailers and manufacturers, as well as U.S. and other national, state, and local government agencies.
- Partners
- Rapid7 is deeply committed to its strong partner network and has over 60 active partners around the world, including consultants, resellers, technology partners and MSSPs. Learn more about the company’s partner program.
- Awards
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Industry experts recognize Rapid7 as an industry pioneer, honoring us with many awards and accolades including:
- SC Magazine: Best Vulnerability Management Tool (SC Magazine, 2012)
- BBJ: Most admired Startup Company (Boston Business Journal, 2012)
- Boston Globe: Rapid7 was ranked as one of the Top 10 Places to Work (Boston Globe, 2011)
- Inc 500: Ranked as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the U.S. for third consecutive year (2010, 2011, 2012)
- BBJ: One of the Best Places to work (Boston Business Journal, 2011)
- BBJ Pacesetter: Recognized as a the fastest growing software vendor in the Greater Boston area (Boston Business Journal, 2011)
- Technology Fast 500: 15th fastest growing software company in North America (Deloitte, 2009, 2010)
- Red Herring 100 Winner (Red Herring Magazine, 2009)
