Kushal Khandwala

Dec 22, 2022

100X.VC-backed Startup BugBase, India's largest marketplace for ethical hackers, raises US$500,000 in funding led by 2am VC. The funding round also saw successful participation from Finsight Ventures, Dholakia Ventures, SAT Industries and marquee angel investors like Neeraj Roy (Founder, Hungama Entertainment), Nilesh Sangoi (Founding CTO and ex-CEO Meru Cabs), Puneet Deora (MD, Deoras Group), Kushal Khandwala (Director, KIFS Group), Anoop Mathur (AM Capital & Founder, CORE Media) among others. BugBase, a Bangalore-based startup, is one-of-a-kind marketplace of ethical hackers, which assists organisations in staying cyber safe by providing an all-in-one platform for continuous and comprehensive security testing. BugBase was founded by Dhruva Goyal and Kathan Desai, two 20-year-old motivated young entrepreneurs who dropped out of college to pursue their entrepreneurial dream full-time. They are currently hosting Bug Bounty programs and PTaaS (Pentest-as-a-service) programs for companies like boAt and ImpactGuru. Dhruva Goyal, Founder & CEO, BugBase, said, "Bugbase intends to give a large community of ethical hackers access to an optimised platform that has already begun to revolutionise India's cybersecurity market. We aim to spread awareness about cybersecurity among organisations and businesses likewise and hope to facilitate fruitful interactions between ethical hackers and companies." "Businesses face all types of breaches, and these vulnerabilities pose a great risk to sensitive data. Therefore a need for an integrated testing platform arose. Our platform's success in India is based on a commitment to excellent service quality and compliance requirements, as well as a desire to foster sustainability and innovation," said Kathan Desai, Founder, BugBase. Share this article: