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Static-analysis and code-quality company behind SonarQube, now selling AI code-verification features — AI CodeFix, AI Code Assurance, Sonar Vortex, the SonarQube Remediation Agent and Hunter Agent — that check AI-generated and human-written code against the same quality and security gates.

Total funding$412M

Valuation$4.7B

Employees—

Founded2008

HeadquartersGeneva, Switzerland

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• SonarQube Developer tool Sold on its own

  Code-quality and security analysis across 40+ languages, now extended with AI features that check both human- and AI-written code: AI CodeFix suggests context-aware fixes, AI Code Assurance flags AI-generated code against quality gates, Sonar Vortex verifies code as an agent writes it, and the SonarQube Remediation and Hunter Agents clear backlog and hunt logic-based security flaws.

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Total funding

Press release · 26 Apr 2022

Sonar's own press release: USD 412M round at a USD 4.7B valuation, led by Advent International and General Catalyst, with Insight Partners and Permira participating. Date per data/research/admissions/id715-tools-2026-09-28.json; re-verified against the same URL 2026-09-30 (page loads and states the figures).

Valuation

Press release · 26 Apr 2022

USD 412M round at a USD 4.7B valuation, same press release as funding_total.

Founded

Wikipedia · 30 Sep 2026

"Sonar is a Swiss company founded in 2008." "Founded by Olivier Gaudin, Freddy Mallet, and Simon Brandhof in 2008." Wikipedia is allowed for founded by the id287 split-rule exception.

Description

Official documentation · 30 Sep 2026

"The AI security agent that hunts logic flaws" (Hunter Agent); "Every patch is verified against the Sonar analysis engine before it becomes a PR" (Remediation Agent). sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/ names AI CodeFix ("Get context-aware, AI-powered fixes for bugs and security issues") and AI Code Assurance ("Automatically detect and flag code originating from generative AI tools"). Sonar Vortex named on sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing/ ("Context before the agent writes, verification as it writes").

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