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Founded 2017
Headcount 162
Open roles 27
Last raised Debt Financing Contents
Locations Funding Tech Stack Open Roles Leadership Similar Companies Funding rounds
$40M Mar 31, 2026
$30M Mar 31, 2026
$50M Oct 23, 2023
$25M Oct 23, 2023
$35M Jan 26, 2022
$15.5M Aug 4, 2020
$2.6M Nov 26, 2018
Funding data via Diffbot , SEC EDGAR filings and company announcements — a round from a filing or announcement links to it
TECH STACK
How Censys builds Extracted from Censys’s job postings we’ve tracked
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Data Engineering & Warehousing
Collaboration & Productivity
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LEADERSHIP
Founders & key people David Corcoran
Founder at Censys
Digital Cowboy Censys Third Rail Group Techstars Our Sunday Visitor Elevate Ventures Purdue University College of Engineering Purdue University
Brian Kelly
Founder at TrustBearer Labs
Defined Networking Intvo Ann Arbor Spark Censys Third Rail Group Nutshell Virginia Tech
David Adrian
Manager at Google
Google Nametag Censys Duo Security University of Michigan CAEN Chelsea FC University of Michigan
Zakir Durumeric
Chief Officer at Censys
Stanford University Censys University of Michigan Stanford Security Research zmap University of Michigan University of Iowa
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