About Sonatype
We are the leader in component lifecycle management.
Our mission is simple – Help the world create trusted applications at the speed of development. As a pioneer in component-based software development we’re committed to securing the software supply chain.
Sonatype has been on the forefront of creating tools to manage, organize, and better secure components since the inception of the Central Repository and Maven in 2001. Today, over 70,000 companies download over 8 billion components every year from the Central Repository, demonstrating the explosive growth in component-based development. This modern software ecosystem has created a level of complexity that is increasingly hard to manage. Partnering with application developers, security professionals and the open source community, Sonatype has introduced a way to keep pace with modern software development without sacrificing security. We call it Component Lifecycle Management (CLM), the new platform for securing the modern software supply chain.
We believe you can have security at the speed of development and that developers are part of the solution. Through the introduction of CLM we’re improving the visibility, management and security of component-based development across the entire lifecycle. Together with our customers, we’re ushering in a new era of application security.
2001
Jason van Zyl launches Maven & the Central Repository
2006
M2eclipse Plug-in introduced
2006
Maven emerges as a standard
Central reaches 100M
2008
Nexus repository manager introduced to OS community
2008
Sonatype Founded to improve component-based development
Central reaches 1Billion
2010
Sonatpe Raises $10M
Maven community reaches 5K developers
2012
Sonatype reaches 350 Customers; raises $25M
Nexus reaches 20K installs, with 70% marketshare
Introduce component intelligence for Nexus
2013
Sonatype receives Codie Award for Best GRC Solution
Central reaches 8 Billion
OWASP adds vulnerable components to top 10 application security risks
Launch of Component Lifecycle Management







