Mend, formerly known as WhiteSource, was founded in 2011 by CEO Rami Sass, Chairman of the Board Ron Rymon, and General Manager Azi Cohen. It is headquartered in Givatayim, Israel, with offices also in the Tel Aviv area and Boston. The company focuses on application security within the cybersecurity industry, offering a comprehensive platform to manage application security risks.
Mend’s platform includes tools for scanning source code, managing open source security, ensuring compliance, securing containerized applications, and analyzing AI model risks. The company’s solutions are designed to serve both developers and security teams, providing automated dependency updates, dynamic testing, and a framework for software supply chain security. Mend aims to deliver automated remediation for software composition analysis (SCA) and static application security testing (SAST) directly within the developer’s environment, significantly reducing remediation time.
Built on the industry’s most comprehensive vulnerability database, Mend provides extensive coverage for threats and attack vectors across more than 200 programming languages and over 3 million open source components. The database aggregates information multiple times daily from sources such as the National Vulnerability Database, security advisories, and open source project issue trackers. Mend has experienced rapid growth, with over 1,000 customers including major enterprises like Microsoft, IBM, Comcast, and Philips, and a strong enterprise net retention rate of 127% reported in 2021.
Mend is renowned for its cloud architecture that scales to support unlimited applications, developers, and repositories, fitting seamlessly into developers’ native workflows for ease of use. The company holds a strong market position as a leader among software composition analysis solution providers, competing with other key players like Microsoft, JFrog, and Snyk.