Founder Profile
Assaf Hefetz
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Assaf Hefetz?
Assaf Hefetz is a founder of Snyk, which was founded in 2015 with Guy Podjarny and Danny Grander.
- Company founded
- Snyk
- Founded
- 2015
- Co-founders
- Guy Podjarny and Danny Grander
Background
Israeli cybersecurity expert and former Unit 8200 officer.
Founding Story
Assaf Hefetz co-founded Snyk in 2015 alongside Guy Podjarny and Danny Grander. A highly elite cybersecurity researcher, he recognized that the massive explosion in open-source software libraries meant that developers were accidentally importing millions of severe vulnerabilities into corporate codebases. He helped build Snyk's core scanning engine to automatically detect these hidden threats. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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