Tidelift partners with open source maintainers to implement secure software development practices and validate their adherence, ensuring organizations can trust the security of the open source packages they use. This approach reduces security risks and manual evaluation time, enabling businesses to confidently invest in resilient open source software.
Funding
$72M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Organizations face security risks and increased manual effort when using open-source software due to vulnerabilities, abandoned packages, and a lack of clear security practices. Evaluating and maintaining the security of these packages consumes significant time and resources.
Solution
Tidelift partners with open-source maintainers to implement and validate secure software development practices, ensuring organizations can confidently use open-source packages. By directly compensating maintainers, Tidelift ensures the continued health and security of critical open-source dependencies. This approach reduces security vulnerabilities, improves application quality, and increases operational efficiency by minimizing the need for manual package evaluation.
Target Audience
Tidelift's primary customers are organizations and application development teams that rely on open-source software and need to reduce security risks, improve productivity, and increase operational efficiency.
Features
- Maintainer partnerships to implement industry-leading secure software development practices
- Validation of maintainer adherence to security best practices
- Contractual commitments from maintainers to ensure ongoing security practices
- Proactive identification and mitigation of vulnerable, end-of-life, or abandoned packages
- OpenSSF scorecards score improvements