Who We Are
We empower the largest enterprises to secure their applications from code to cloud.
Securing the applications critical to enterprises’ digital transformation and business growth, from the data center to the cloud.
Years
Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ , 2024
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Return on Investment
Forrester Consulting, Total Economic Impact™ of Checkmarx One 2024
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Customers in 70 Countries
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Fortune 100 Organizations
“Our vision at Checkmarx is to elevate AppSec from a necessity to a strategic advantage, ensuring enterprises excel in a world of digital transformation.”
Sandeep Johri
Checkmarx CEO
“Checkmarx One definitely checks all my boxes from a security standpoint and has a great interface that’s engaging and easy to use. Some of the solutions we considered were more complicated. With Checkmarx One, it’s easy to get right to the problem with little to no learning curve.”
“Incorporating Checkmarx’s technology has revolutionized our development culture. It’s more than just technology; it serves as the foundation of our security strategy, ensuring that our applications are secure by design.”
“The success of our AppSec program can be directly attributed to the tooling, processes and support provided by Checkmarx managed services. Our mission revolves around providing secure and compliant lottery and gaming applications and services to our clients around the globe, and with Checkmarx SAST, SCA and associated components enhanced by their stellar service support, we deliver on this promise with confidence and certainty.”
“After nearly nine years of using Checkmarx’s SAST, CGI’s journey has been one of seamless integration and consistent satisfaction. The last three years have been particularly smooth, reflecting the solution’s reliability and our successful partnership.”
“By Far The Best AppSec Tooling Decision We Have Made!!”
“We were thrilled to find Checkmarx, which helped us improve the SLA for identifying and remediating risk, reduce risk and the number of vulnerabilities, and eliminate high- and medium-risk issues.”
“Checkmarx made security team and developers life easier.”
Market leaders choose Checkmarx.
Tarim Wasim
Partner, Hellman & Friedman
Tarim is a Partner at Hellman & Friedman. He focuses on investments in software, internet and business services. He’s also currently on the board of Genesys, SimpliSafe and Sprinklr. He was formerly a Director at Renaissance Learning, Internet Brands and AlixPartners.
Prior to joining H&F, Tarim worked at Bain Capital and Bain & Company in Boston. Tarim has a BA from Dartmouth and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Stephen Ensley
Partner, Hellman & Friedman
Stephen is a Partner at Hellman & Friedman. He is on the Operating Committee of Genesys, a Director of Pharmaceutical Product Development and Checkmarx, and was formerly on the Board of Directors of CarProof and Sheridan Healthcare and active in the Firm’s investments in Sprinklr, Applied Systems and AlixPartners.
Stephen joined H&F in 2009 and prior to H&F, worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Industrials groups at J.P. Morgan in New York. Stephen has a BA and and MS from Stanford University.
Dionne Chingkoe
Partner, Insight Partners
Dionne works with Insight’s portfolio companies to help them grow. In addition to Checkmarx, she serves on the board for Jama Software and observes on the boards of Exclaimer, CentralReach, SonarSource, and Anaqua.
Previously, Dionne worked in Global Business Operations at Google, acquiring and growing customer business in both major and emerging markets.
Art Heidrich
Board Observer
Art Heidrich is based in San Francisco, where he helps lead and support TPG’s investment activities in software and enterprise technology across its private equity platforms. Art currently serves on the boards of Boomi, Digital.ai, Sauce Labs, WellSky, and Wind River, and has been involved with investments in Advent Software, C3 AI, Checkmarx, Eze Software, IMS Health, RefleXion Medical, Sonatype, SunGard Data Systems, and Vertafore. Prior to joining TPG in 2011, Art worked in the technology investment banking group at Morgan Stanley, where he advised on and executed M&A and corporate finance transactions. He received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.
Emmanuel Benzaquen
Founder, Checkmarx
Emmanuel Benzaquen is the Chief Executive Officer at Checkmarx. Leading Checkmarx since its inception in 2006, he has helped shape the company from vision to reality in pioneering and bringing software security solutions to companies all over the world.
Benzaquen’s career spans Silicon Valley and Israel for more than 25 years. Prior to Checkmarx, he held numerous leadership positions in the enterprise software, IT, and semiconductor industries for companies including Virage Logic (acquired by Synopsys), Argonaut RISC Core (which completed its IPO in 2000), Embedded Performance, Inc. (acquired by Mentor Graphics), and Illuminator (acquired by Dell EMC).
Benzaquen earned his MBA and Master of Science degrees in International Business and Electrical Engineering, respectively.
Maty Siman
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Maty Siman is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Checkmarx. As the company’s founder, he has been instrumental in overseeing its technology and product strategy, helping customers achieve their goals of developing and releasing more secure software. Siman possesses over 25 years of experience in software development, application security, and source code analysis. Siman regularly speaks at security conferences, including RSA Conference, Black Hat and OWASP.
Sandeep Johri
Chief Executive Officer – Checkmarx
Sandeep has spent many years in Silicon Valley as an executive, founder, strategic advisor and investor. He most recently served as CEO of Tricentis, which he led for seven years from an early-stage startup to a global leader of continuous-testing software solutions.
Previously, Johri held senior management roles at HP, where he created and implemented the strategy to grow the software division from $600 million in revenue to category leadership and $3.5 billion in revenue.
Johri has been the founder of several VC-funded security startups such as Oblix (acquired by Oracle), Determina and Bluelane (both acquired by VMware).
Inbal Shani
Board Member
Inbal Shani is the Chief Product Officer and Head of R&D at Twilio Communications, leading all aspects of product strategy & innovation and software development. With more than 25 years of experience in automotive, aerospace, cloud, and retail industries, Inbal’s expertise spans across the entire tech stack. Before joining Twilio, she led R&D, Marketing, and GTM teams at GitHub, Amazon/AWS, and Microsoft. Having served as a GM and Chief Product Officer for most of her career, Inbal specializes in crafting solutions that maximize customers’ business-critical outcomes. She is among the pioneering technologists who applied AI to solve complex technical and business problems. Inbal holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology.
Hellman & Friedman
Founded in 1984, Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is one of the oldest and most experienced private equity investment firms operating today. They are well respected for their distinctive investment philosophy and focused approach targeting large-scale equity investments in companies in select sectors. H&F has offices in San Francisco, New York and London.
TPG
TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in 1992 with approximately $85 billion of assets under management and offices in Austin, Beijing, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, and Washington, DC. TPG’s investment platforms are across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, real estate, and public equity. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its investors while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio.
Insight Venture Partners
Insight Venture Partners is a leading global private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1995.
The company has invested in more than 200 growth-stage software, eCommerce, Internet and Data-service companies including Twitter, New Relic and Alibaba.com.
Salesforce
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company that has transformed the way companies collaborate and communicate. Salesforce.com is leading the effort to bring Cloud 2, the next paradigm for computing, to the enterprise by offering its customers the social collaboration, mobility and openness that are the hallmark of this new world. Salesforce is one of the early adopters of the Checkmarx revolutionary solution for Static Code Analysis and enforces the security of the Force.com applications through the service Powered by Checkmarx. In late 2011, Salesforce joined Ofer Hi-Tech in a strategic investment round in Checkmarx and is expanding the adoption of the Checkmarx solution throughout its ecosystem.
Intelligent Wave, Inc.
Intelligent Wave specializes in network connection, authorization and other processing systems for credit card payments.
Intelligent Wave boasts a broad range of client companies ranging from banks, distribution and credit company related cards to overseas banks, post offices, e-commerce firms and consumer finance firms.
Intelligent Wave commands about a 70% share of the domestic online credit card systems market among major credit card providers.
K1 Capital
As a dedicated operational consulting affiliate, K1 Operations identifies common opportunities and solutions to drive scalability and increase post investment value creation. K1 Operations has developed the iOps program, a suite of best practices across human capital management, sales and marketing, software development, implementation and customer support, finance and accounting, and mergers and acquisitions that are systematically deployed across each portfolio company to drive increased operational efficiency.
XT Hi-Tech
Established in 1997, XT Hi-Tech is the venture arm of a global holding group which is operating in diverse industrial fields such as Shipping, Energy, Chemicals, Automotive & Media. They are an active investor, focusing on bringing Israeli innovations to the global markets. XT Hi-Tech invests in unique mid stage companies with strong management teams & happy customers. Their venture team has a strong mix of operational and investment expertise and are active board participants.
Tarim Wasim
Partner, Hellman & Friedman
Tarim is a Partner at Hellman & Friedman. He focuses on investments in software, internet and business services. He’s also currently on the board of Genesys, SimpliSafe and Sprinklr. He was formerly a Director at Renaissance Learning, Internet Brands and AlixPartners.
Prior to joining H&F, Tarim worked at Bain Capital and Bain & Company in Boston. Tarim has a BA from Dartmouth and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Stephen Ensley
Partner, Hellman & Friedman
Stephen is a Partner at Hellman & Friedman. He is on the Operating Committee of Genesys, a Director of Pharmaceutical Product Development and Checkmarx, and was formerly on the Board of Directors of CarProof and Sheridan Healthcare and active in the Firm’s investments in Sprinklr, Applied Systems and AlixPartners.
Stephen joined H&F in 2009 and prior to H&F, worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Industrials groups at J.P. Morgan in New York. Stephen has a BA and and MS from Stanford University.
Dionne Chingkoe
Partner, Insight Partners
Dionne works with Insight’s portfolio companies to help them grow. In addition to Checkmarx, she serves on the board for Jama Software and observes on the boards of Exclaimer, CentralReach, SonarSource, and Anaqua.
Previously, Dionne worked in Global Business Operations at Google, acquiring and growing customer business in both major and emerging markets.
Art Heidrich
Board Observer
Art Heidrich is based in San Francisco, where he helps lead and support TPG’s investment activities in software and enterprise technology across its private equity platforms. Art currently serves on the boards of Boomi, Digital.ai, Sauce Labs, WellSky, and Wind River, and has been involved with investments in Advent Software, C3 AI, Checkmarx, Eze Software, IMS Health, RefleXion Medical, Sonatype, SunGard Data Systems, and Vertafore. Prior to joining TPG in 2011, Art worked in the technology investment banking group at Morgan Stanley, where he advised on and executed M&A and corporate finance transactions. He received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.
Emmanuel Benzaquen
Founder, Checkmarx
Emmanuel Benzaquen is the Chief Executive Officer at Checkmarx. Leading Checkmarx since its inception in 2006, he has helped shape the company from vision to reality in pioneering and bringing software security solutions to companies all over the world.
Benzaquen’s career spans Silicon Valley and Israel for more than 25 years. Prior to Checkmarx, he held numerous leadership positions in the enterprise software, IT, and semiconductor industries for companies including Virage Logic (acquired by Synopsys), Argonaut RISC Core (which completed its IPO in 2000), Embedded Performance, Inc. (acquired by Mentor Graphics), and Illuminator (acquired by Dell EMC).
Benzaquen earned his MBA and Master of Science degrees in International Business and Electrical Engineering, respectively.
Maty Siman
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Maty Siman is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Checkmarx. As the company’s founder, he has been instrumental in overseeing its technology and product strategy, helping customers achieve their goals of developing and releasing more secure software. Siman possesses over 25 years of experience in software development, application security, and source code analysis. Siman regularly speaks at security conferences, including RSA Conference, Black Hat and OWASP.
Sandeep Johri
Chief Executive Officer – Checkmarx
Sandeep has spent many years in Silicon Valley as an executive, founder, strategic advisor and investor. He most recently served as CEO of Tricentis, which he led for seven years from an early-stage startup to a global leader of continuous-testing software solutions.
Previously, Johri held senior management roles at HP, where he created and implemented the strategy to grow the software division from $600 million in revenue to category leadership and $3.5 billion in revenue.
Johri has been the founder of several VC-funded security startups such as Oblix (acquired by Oracle), Determina and Bluelane (both acquired by VMware).
Inbal Shani
Board Member
Inbal Shani is the Chief Product Officer and Head of R&D at Twilio Communications, leading all aspects of product strategy & innovation and software development. With more than 25 years of experience in automotive, aerospace, cloud, and retail industries, Inbal’s expertise spans across the entire tech stack. Before joining Twilio, she led R&D, Marketing, and GTM teams at GitHub, Amazon/AWS, and Microsoft. Having served as a GM and Chief Product Officer for most of her career, Inbal specializes in crafting solutions that maximize customers’ business-critical outcomes. She is among the pioneering technologists who applied AI to solve complex technical and business problems. Inbal holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology.
Founded in 1984, Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is one of the oldest and most experienced private equity investment firms operating today. They are well respected for their distinctive investment philosophy and focused approach targeting large-scale equity investments in companies in select sectors. H&F has offices in San Francisco, New York and London.
TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in 1992 with approximately $85 billion of assets under management and offices in Austin, Beijing, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, and Washington, DC. TPG’s investment platforms are across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, real estate, and public equity. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its investors while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio.
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company that has transformed the way companies collaborate and communicate. Salesforce.com is leading the effort to bring Cloud 2, the next paradigm for computing, to the enterprise by offering its customers the social collaboration, mobility and openness that are the hallmark of this new world. Salesforce is one of the early adopters of the Checkmarx revolutionary solution for Static Code Analysis and enforces the security of the Force.com applications through the service Powered by Checkmarx. In late 2011, Salesforce joined Ofer Hi-Tech in a strategic investment round in Checkmarx and is expanding the adoption of the Checkmarx solution throughout its ecosystem.
Intelligent Wave specializes in network connection, authorization and other processing systems for credit card payments.
Intelligent Wave boasts a broad range of client companies ranging from banks, distribution and credit company related cards to overseas banks, post offices, e-commerce firms and consumer finance firms.
Intelligent Wave commands about a 70% share of the domestic online credit card systems market among major credit card providers.
As a dedicated operational consulting affiliate, K1 Operations identifies common opportunities and solutions to drive scalability and increase post investment value creation. K1 Operations has developed the iOps program, a suite of best practices across human capital management, sales and marketing, software development, implementation and customer support, finance and accounting, and mergers and acquisitions that are systematically deployed across each portfolio company to drive increased operational efficiency.
Established in 1997, XT Hi-Tech is the venture arm of a global holding group which is operating in diverse industrial fields such as Shipping, Energy, Chemicals, Automotive & Media. They are an active investor, focusing on bringing Israeli innovations to the global markets. XT Hi-Tech invests in unique mid stage companies with strong management teams & happy customers. Their venture team has a strong mix of operational and investment expertise and are active board participants.