considered for deletion in accordance with wikipedia s deletion policy . please share your thoughts on the matter at this article s entry on the articles for deletion page . feel free to edit the article but the article must not be blanked and this notice must not be removed until the discussion is closed . for more information particularly on merging or moving the article during the discussion read the guide to deletion . % 5b % 5bwikipedia % 3aarticles for deletion % 2fblack duck software % 5d % 5dafd black duck software inc. type privately held industry open source security software founded massachusetts usa 2002 headquarters burlington ma key people lou shipley president & ceo stephen gregorio cfo bill ledingham cto bob canaway cmo adam clay vp of worldwide sales products black duck hub black duck protex black duck code center website www.blackducksoftware.com black duck software is a privately held software company headquartered in burlington massachusetts that specializes in assisting companies to secure and manage their use of open source software oss . 1 black duck has partnerships with a variety of open source organizations including red hat the open source software institute ossi and sourceforge . headquartered in burlington ma black duck has offices in san jose ca ; frankfurt germany ; reading united kingdom ; tokyo japan ; and seoul south korea . products & services edit black duck markets products and services as solutions that allow organizations to analyze the composition of their software search for reusable code manage open source and third party approval honor legal obligations and monitor related security vulnerabilities . the company promotes its products and services as follows black duck hub automatically scans applications and linux containers to discover open source components and applications used to build them maps known vulnerabilities manages remediation activities and monitors and alerts users when new threats are reported . black duck protex integrates with development tools to automatically scan identify and inventory open source software . black duck code center automates the processes of finding and selecting open source software requesting and receiving approval for code usage and accessing licenses community activities and vulnerability information for open source components . black duck on demand marketed for internal audits and m & a transactions is a service that identifies open source components licenses ip obligations and other code risks . black duck open hub formerly ohloh.net an online community and public directory of free and open source software foss offering analytics and search services for discovering evaluating tracking and comparing open source code and projects . history edit black duck software was founded in 2002 by douglas levin in waltham massachusetts . the company moved its corporate headquarters to burlington ma in 2011 . 2 lou shipley joined the company in 2013 as president and ceo . 3 in a 2016 press release black duck reported the company had 230 employees . 4 in 2004 black duck completed its first round of venture capital funding acquiring investments from flagship ventures and general catalyst partners totaling 5 million usd . 5 in 2005 a second round of investments came in equaling 12 million usd from a combination of sources fidelity ventures of boston intel capital sap ventures and red hat . 6 in february 2007 black duck acquired a round of investments totaling 12 million usd from focus ventures and past investors . 7 in 2009 black duck announcing it had received 9.5 million in new financing including gold hill capital and existing investors . 8 in 2011 the company raised an additional 12 million from various investors . 9 in july 2014 black duck received a 20 million investment from a combination of general catalyst partners and other past investors . 10 references edit yegulalp serdar . black duck s mission to seek out insecure open source code in the enterprise . retrieved 2016 10 03 . boston business journal . bizjournal . 2011 11 08 . retrieved 2016 04 05 . seven things you should know about black duck chief executive lou shipley the boston globe . bostonglobe.com . retrieved 2016 04 05 . black duck s 2015 growth spurs major expansion at burlington headquarters . reuters . 2016 01 27 . retrieved 2016 04 05 . black duck software secures 5 million in series a financing flagship ventures . www.flagshipventures.com . retrieved 2016 04 05 . black duck software raises 12m in 2nd vc round boston business journal . boston business journal . retrieved 2016 04 05 . valley firms join 12m black duck round silicon valley business journal . silicon valley business journal . retrieved 2016 04 05 . open source firm black duck hatches 9.5 m funding boston business journal . boston business journal . retrieved 2016 04 05 . after coasting for 3 years black duck software raises 12m boston business journal . boston business journal . retrieved 2016 04 05 . black duck software raises 20m led by general catalyst boston business journal . boston business journal . retrieved 2016 04 05 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title black duck software & oldid 742432276 categories software companies established in 20022002 establishments in massachusettssoftware companies based in massachusettscompanies based in massachusettscomputer security software companiescomputer security softwareprivately held companies based in massachusettsbusiness software companieshidden categories articles for deletion navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 17 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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