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ActiveState
ActiveState Software Inc. is a Canadian software company that develops and supports tools for managing open source software in enterprise environments. The company provides solutions for automated vulnerability management, container security, and software supply chain security. ActiveState delivers secure containers and language runtimes that development teams can incorporate into their software development lifecycle (SDLC), and its platform is designed to help DevSecOps teams automatically identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in open source components, and to manage dependencies across programming languages.
As of 2025, ActiveState reports serving approximately 94,000 monthly active users and supporting more than 40 million open source libraries. The company states that its platform is compliant with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).
ActiveState is privately held and jointly owned by its employees and Vertu Capital, a Canadian private equity firm.
ActiveState Software Inc. was founded in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by Dick Hardt, David Ascher, and others, with the goal of adapting open source programming languages for commercial use. The company became known for commercial distributions of languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl for Windows and enterprise platforms.
In 2003, the company was acquired by British security software firm Sophos, a UK-based security software company, and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary. In January 2006, ActiveState was purchased by Pender Financial Group, a Canadian investment company.
In early 2021, ActiveState received a strategic investment from Turn/River Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. On November 7, 2023, the company was acquired by Vertu Capital, a Canadian private equity firm, and became jointly owned by Vertu Capital and ActiveState employees.
The ActiveState Platform is a cloud-based platform for building, managing, and securing open source software components across multiple programming languages. It automates the process of compiling packages from source code, implements the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) security framework, and provides tools for vulnerability detection, risk prioritization, and remediation.
The platform is delivered as a managed service in which ActiveState oversees the building, updating, and maintenance of open source components on behalf of its users. It can generate secure container images, manage dependencies, and create software bills of materials (SBOMs) in SPDX and CycloneDX formats. The managed model is intended to reduce the operational burden on development teams by handling security patching, compliance requirements, and dependency updates centrally.
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ActiveState
ActiveState Software Inc. is a Canadian software company that develops and supports tools for managing open source software in enterprise environments. The company provides solutions for automated vulnerability management, container security, and software supply chain security. ActiveState delivers secure containers and language runtimes that development teams can incorporate into their software development lifecycle (SDLC), and its platform is designed to help DevSecOps teams automatically identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in open source components, and to manage dependencies across programming languages.
As of 2025, ActiveState reports serving approximately 94,000 monthly active users and supporting more than 40 million open source libraries. The company states that its platform is compliant with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).
ActiveState is privately held and jointly owned by its employees and Vertu Capital, a Canadian private equity firm.
ActiveState Software Inc. was founded in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by Dick Hardt, David Ascher, and others, with the goal of adapting open source programming languages for commercial use. The company became known for commercial distributions of languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl for Windows and enterprise platforms.
In 2003, the company was acquired by British security software firm Sophos, a UK-based security software company, and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary. In January 2006, ActiveState was purchased by Pender Financial Group, a Canadian investment company.
In early 2021, ActiveState received a strategic investment from Turn/River Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. On November 7, 2023, the company was acquired by Vertu Capital, a Canadian private equity firm, and became jointly owned by Vertu Capital and ActiveState employees.
The ActiveState Platform is a cloud-based platform for building, managing, and securing open source software components across multiple programming languages. It automates the process of compiling packages from source code, implements the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) security framework, and provides tools for vulnerability detection, risk prioritization, and remediation.
The platform is delivered as a managed service in which ActiveState oversees the building, updating, and maintenance of open source components on behalf of its users. It can generate secure container images, manage dependencies, and create software bills of materials (SBOMs) in SPDX and CycloneDX formats. The managed model is intended to reduce the operational burden on development teams by handling security patching, compliance requirements, and dependency updates centrally.