Security

EdgeBit

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Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

EdgeBit was acquired by FOSSA in July 2025: https://fossa.com/blog/fossa-acquires-edgebit/

EdgeBit enables engineering teams to ship security updates 10x faster with confidence by automating dependency update analysis. Our platform turns weeks of manual review into minutes, helping teams find and fix security vulnerabilities while maintaining a secure, up-to-date software supply chain without compromising productivity.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Rob Szumski

Founder

Rob Szumski is CEO and co-founder of EdgeBit, the security platform that secures your software supply chain by focusing on code that is actually running. EdgeBit simplifies vulnerability management as it cuts through noise that distracts engineers merging code. Rob was an early employee of CoreOS (YC S13) which popularized the immutable operating system and propelled Kubernetes/container tech into the mainstream. CoreOS was acquired by Red Hat in 2018, where Rob was a Director of Product.

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Eugene Yakubovich

Founder

Eugene is a long time hacker who likes to work at the application / operating systems boundary. In the past, he designed the foundational layers for high-frequency trading, contributed to the container runtimes, and implemented graph algorithms for continent size road networks. Lately he has been on a mission to secure workloads and in 2022 he teamed up with Rob and Russell to tackle the problem, starting with fixing the vulnerability fire hose.

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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