Socket Acquires Startup Coana to Boost Code Risk Precision

Acquisition Adds Expert Team, Reachability Analysis Tech to Socket's Security Stack Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • April 23, 2025

Socket bought a Danish reachability analysis startup led by a former executive at the venture capital arm of plastic toy block giant Lego, saying the startup's technology will reduce alert fatigue among developers and security teams.

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The San Francisco-based software supply chain security vendor said its purchase of Aarhus, Denmark-based Coana will address customer pain points around alert fatigue and false positives in vulnerability scanning. Founder and CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh said Coana's strength lies in its control flow and call graph analysis, allowing security teams to discern which issues are genuinely exploitable.

"Most solutions out there don't do a great job," he said. "They either have extremely slow performance, so you can ...