11
STARTUP
STORIES
Notes
from
Founders:
Detectify
Protecting
people
from
hackers,
one
website
at
a
time
Johan Edholm, David Hallenius, Fredrik Nordberg Almroth
and Mathias Karlsson were friends from school who shared an
interest in ethical hacking. Together, they created an online
security scanner to identify vulnerabilities in websites. Since
its launch in 2014, Detectify has helped protect thousands of
websites from cyber-attacks, including Trello, Pipedrive and
Spotify. The startup is currently in a rapid growth period and
plans to more than double its team over the next year.
Rickard
Carlsson's
love
of
learning
drew
him
to
Swedish
cyber-security
firm
Detectify
back
in
2014.
As
CEO,
he's
helped
take
the
business
from
a
bootstrapped
startup,
to
a
leader
in
its
field.
Rickard
lives
with
his
girlfriend
in
Stockholm.
Rickard
Carlsson
CEO
of
Detectify
