What TeejLab does

TeejLab Inc. is a Vancouver-headquartered, privately held SaaS company founded in 2019 by Dr. Baljeet Malhotra that sells an enterprise API Discovery and Security platform targeting large organizations with complex API ecosystems. The platform consists of five product modules—API Discovery Manager, API Security Manager, API Consumer Manager, API Producer Manager, and API Lifecycle Manager—plus an API Community Manager for collaborative knowledgebase enrichment. Underlying technology combines source-code static analysis, network-traffic dynamic analysis, IDE plugins (VSCode, Eclipse), a CLI for CI/CD integration, and a GitHub connector, all wrapped around what the company describes as the world's first comprehensive API KnowledgeBase covering 20,000+ APIs from 15,000+ vendors.

The platform automates OWASP Top-10 and CIS Top-20 security testing and flags compliance risk against GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, PCI-DSS, and ISO27001. It is deployable as single-tenant (on-premises/private cloud) or multi-tenant SaaS on AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle, and is listed on AWS Marketplace alongside a direct enterprise field-sales motion and a self-serve/free-tier PLG funnel via IDE plugins. Revenue mechanics are subscription-based with quote-based enterprise pricing; no specific price points are publicly disclosed.

TeejLab serves enterprise customers across technology, defense, retail, semiconductor, and logistics, with named users including Dell, SAP, IKEA, Cohu, MITRE Engenuity, Locus Robotics, and Tignis. The company maintains academic research alliances with the University of Alberta and the University of Northern British Columbia, and has built a multi-chapter ISACA workshop program co-delivered with FRSecure. With a headcount of 1-10 and offices across Canada, the US, India, and Singapore, TeejLab operates as a capital-efficient, founder-led business without disclosed external funding.

Name

TeejLab

Legal name

TeejLab Inc.

Website

https://teejlab.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

TeejLab is a Vancouver-based private SaaS company that sells an enterprise API Discovery and Security platform for governing, securing, and monitoring APIs across the full lifecycle, using AI-driven static and dynamic analysis backed by a 20,000+ API KnowledgeBase.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

API Security and Governance Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud Compliance, Audit & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM/GRC) (HDABAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Security & Privacy for Cloud (DLP, DSPM, Tokenization) (HDABAHAK), Attack Detection & Response for Cloud/SaaS (SOC for Cloud) (HDADAGAJ)

Keywords

• API security software
• API discovery platform
• API governance
• Software composition analysis
• API risk management

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Cloud-based Software as a Service platform available as single-tenant (on-premises/private cloud) or multi-tenant (shared/public cloud) deployment. Revenue generated through subscription licensing based on deployment type and enterprise requirements.
2. Enterprise API Governance Solutions: Comprehensive API management solutions for enterprise digital transformation. Includes discovery, security, compliance, digitization, monetization and governance capabilities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

TeejLab sells a cloud-native SaaS API Discovery and Security platform that discovers hidden/shadow APIs through static source code analysis and dynamic network scanning, then benchmarks those APIs against OWASP Top-10, CIS Top-20, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, PCI-DSS, and ISO27001 frameworks. The platform combines a proprietary Global API KnowledgeBase covering 20,000+ APIs from 15,000+ vendors with CI/CD-integrated tools and IDE plugins for enterprise API governance, security, compliance, and monetization.

Product overview

TeejLab's API Discovery and Lifecycle Manager platform is a modular, enterprise-grade SaaS platform for end-to-end API governance, consisting of five product modules: API Discovery Manager (discovers hidden/shadow APIs via static source code analysis and dynamic network scanning), API Security Manager (automates OWASP Top-10 and CIS Top-20 security testing with CI/CD integration), API Consumer Manager (centralizes external APIs in a marketplace with service mesh), API Producer Manager (controls and monetizes public/private APIs via gateway mesh), and API Lifecycle Manager (unifies all modules for complete API lifecycle management). An additional API Community Manager enables collaborative knowledgebase enrichment. The platform leverages Data Science and Machine Learning and is deployable as single-tenant or multi-tenant SaaS across AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and other cloud providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• API Discovery and Security™: Cloud-based SaaS platform for end-to-end API management programs, enabling discovery, security, compliance, digitization, monetization and governance of APIs.
• API Discovery Manager™
• API Security Manager™
• API Consumer Manager™
• API Producer Manager™
• API Lifecycle Manager™
• API Community Manager™

Products and services

• API Discovery Manager Discovers hidden/shadow APIs in source code repositories and via network and gateway scanning using TeejLab's proprietary Global API KnowledgeBase. Supports static analysis (source code repositories) and dynamic analysis (network traffic) and enables advanced search, one-click live API calls, and response comparison. Targeted at enterprise security teams and developers needing full API inventory.
• API Security Manager Benchmarks and tests discovered/hidden and internal/external APIs for security and compliance posture. Provides an automated security testing workbench using OWASP Top-10 and CIS Top-20 frameworks, embeddable in CI/CD pipelines, and identifies security threats (unauthorized access, data breaches) and legal risks across GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, PCI-DSS, and ISO27001. Generates security and compliance reports for enterprise security and compliance teams.
• API Consumer Manager Consolidates external/third-party APIs into a single marketplace for transparency, auditing, and billing purposes. Provides service mesh capabilities for managing API dependencies and usage, enabling organizations that consume partner and third-party APIs to do so securely and in a compliant manner.
• API Producer Manager Provides access controls for Open (public) and Closed (private) APIs with digital and monetization strategies. Includes gateway mesh for API exposure and a quality workbench for benchmarking, enabling API producers to expose APIs to customers and partners seamlessly, securely, and compliantly.
• API Lifecycle Manager Complete end-to-end API management platform combining Discovery, Security, Consumer, and Producer modules for enterprise API management programs. Covers API Discovery, Security, Compliance, Digitization, Monetization, and Governance requirements with executive dashboards and centralized orchestration.
• API Community Manager Solution for communities to enrich the API Global KnowledgeBase for research and innovation. Enables community members to claim, curate, and publish APIs to the platform marketplace, supporting collaborative API governance and knowledgebase enrichment for academic and industry communities.

Quantifiable outcome

• APIs contribute 83% of Internet traffic - making API governance critical for enterprises
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability10 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• University of AlbertacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 September 2021Research collaboration to identify and categorize APIs based on API descriptions, responses, and metadata. Partnership with Prof. Abram Hindle's research group for API characterization research. Jointly developing technologies to improve access to and use of APIs through TeejLab's API Management platform.
• University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreated Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Data Privacy & Security providing thought leadership, best practices, and research training. Collaborative research in Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, and Machine Learning to build commercial solutions for enterprise data privacy and security.
• AWSflagshipTechnology or IntegrationPlatform available on AWS Marketplace as SaaS deployment option. Supports both single-tenant (on-premises/private cloud) and multi-tenant (shared/public cloud) deployment on AWS infrastructure.
• MuleSoftminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMatt McLarty, Global Leader of API Strategy at MuleSoft, provided industry endorsement: 'Companies are inevitably getting more and more connected. It's critical to discover what external APIs are being used, what risks they carry, and how they can be managed. TeejLab is unique in the market to address that need.'
• PostmanminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKin Lane, Chief Evangelist at Postman, provided endorsement: 'API Discovery [platform] is forward-thinking and not something I have seen from other [organizations]. [It has] very unique and powerful features.'
• FRSecurecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership for API Security workshop series with ISACA San Diego. FRSecure co-designed and delivered 4-part interactive workshop series on API Security covering security, legal risks, and governance.
• ISACA Chapters (San Diego, Austin, Sri Lanka, Silicon Valley, Huntsville, Ottawa, Phoenix, Greater Hartford, Edmonton)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerMultiple ISACA chapter partnerships for webinar delivery and workshop series on API Risk Management and Governance. Includes API Security and Legal Risk Workshop series featuring 4 interactive workshops.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• MuleSoft: MuleSoft is a leading API management and integration platform (Salesforce) that overlaps with TeejLab's Producer/Consumer/Lifecycle Manager modules. It is also a strategic endorser of TeejLab while increasingly embedding security features natively.
• Akamai (API Security): Following the acquisition of Noname Security, Akamai offers a broad API security suite alongside its CDN and AppSec portfolio. It competes as a larger, more diversified incumbent against TeejLab's pure-play API security platform.
• Postman: Postman is the dominant API collaboration and testing platform. While primarily a developer tool, its governance and security features overlap with TeejLab's discovery and API lifecycle offerings, and its public endorsement positions it as both partner and competitive threat.
• Synopsys (API/Software Composition Analysis): Synopsys is the acquirer of Black Duck Software (where TeejLab's founder built the R&D unit) and offers broad software composition analysis and API testing capabilities. It represents the enterprise-scale SCA incumbent path TeejLab mirrors at a smaller scale.

Emerging players

• AppSentinels: AppSentinels is an emerging API security vendor covering API discovery, threat detection, and behavioral analytics. It competes for similar enterprise accounts as TeejLab but with narrower geographic reach.
• Imvision: Imvision provides API discovery and risk assessment through AI-driven traffic analysis. It overlaps with TeejLab's dynamic network scanning and API discovery capabilities, serving similar enterprise security and compliance teams.

Direct peers

• 42Crunch: 42Crunch focuses on API security by design, including API contract testing, conformance scanning, and runtime protection. It is a direct comparable in API security testing and CI/CD-integrated API scanning.
• Traceable AI: Traceable AI offers API discovery, sensitive data monitoring, and threat detection, directly mirroring TeejLab's combined security and compliance value proposition. It targets the same enterprise AppSec and DevSecOps buyers and is similarly AI/ML-driven.
• Salt Security: Salt Security is a leading API security platform focused on API discovery, posture management, and runtime protection. It is the most direct head-to-head competitor to TeejLab's API Security and Discovery Manager modules, serving the same enterprise security and compliance buyer.
• Noname Security: Noname Security provides API posture management, runtime protection, and API security testing — closely overlapping TeejLab's discovery, security testing, and governance capabilities. Acquired by Akamai in 2024, it represents the well-funded incumbent path TeejLab competes against.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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