What Version does

Version^ operates as the commercial brand of StaTechs Corp, a privately held, Austin, Texas-based software company with 1-10 employees. Its sole product is Bloodhound, a runtime risk intelligence platform that analyzes the building blocks of code — modules, dependencies, CVEs, deprecations, and change logs — to surface hidden technical risk and produce actionable upgrade paths. The platform is purpose-built to support technical due diligence, modernization planning, and long-term maintainability assessments rather than general software development.

Name

Version

Legal name

StaTechs Corp

Website

https://versionup.tech

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Version^ operates Bloodhound, a runtime risk intelligence platform that analyzes code dependencies, CVEs, deprecations, and change logs to support technical due diligence and tech risk management for M&A firms, PE/VC investors, and enterprises.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Technical Risk Assessment Services: Provides technical assessments and reviews for enterprise clients conducting due diligence on target companies. Likely structured as project-based or subscription engagements for ongoing risk monitoring.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Version^ offers a single core product, Bloodhound, a Runtime Risk Intelligence platform that analyzes the building blocks of code — modules, dependencies, CVEs, deprecations, and change logs — to surface hidden technical risk and generate actionable upgrade paths. The platform is purpose-built for technical due diligence, modernization roadmapping, and long-term maintainability, supporting M&A buyers, investors, and enterprise operators in quantifying hidden tech debt and prioritizing fixes.

Product overview

Version^ offers a single unified product called Bloodhound, a Runtime Risk Intelligence platform. Bloodhound is designed to help organizations conduct technical due diligence and risk management by analyzing code dependencies, security vulnerabilities, and deprecated components to generate actionable upgrade paths and remediation recommendations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Bloodhound: Runtime Risk Intelligence platform that analyzes code building blocks including modules, dependencies, CVEs, deprecations, and change logs to surface hidden technical risk and generate actionable upgrade paths. Built for diligence, modernization, and long-term maintainability.

Products and services

• Bloodhound Runtime Risk Intelligence platform that analyzes the building blocks of code — modules, dependencies, CVEs, deprecations, and change logs — to surface hidden technical risk and generate actionable upgrade paths for diligence, modernization, and long-term maintainability; supports dependency conflict detection, change log analysis, CVE and security vulnerability tracking, and compatibility analysis across standard-library and third-party dependencies.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce hidden tech debt that could impact valuations
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Anchore: Anchore provides software composition analysis and container security with a focus on SBOM, dependency, and vulnerability analysis. It is an emerging player with partial overlap to Bloodhound's runtime risk intelligence positioning.
• CAST: CAST offers software intelligence for technical debt, code quality, and application risk—directly aligned with Version's 'quantify tech debt' and modernization-roadmap value proposition for M&A and enterprise buyers.
• CodeScene: CodeScene performs behavioral code analysis and technical-debt quantification, identifying hotspots and maintenance risks. It overlaps with Bloodhound's tech-debt and modernization-roadmap capabilities from a code-centric rather than dependency-centric angle.

Direct peers

• Snyk: Snyk is a leading developer security platform with deep software composition analysis (SCA), dependency vulnerability scanning, and license compliance. It directly overlaps with Bloodhound's dependency/CVE/compatibility analysis capabilities, though Snyk is a broad developer-security platform rather than a M&A-diligence-specific tool.
• Sonatype: Sonatype's Nexus platform provides software composition analysis, dependency intelligence, and vulnerability remediation—closely matching Bloodhound's runtime dependency risk focus. It serves enterprise DevSecOps and is a direct competitor in the SCA category.
• JFrog: JFrog Xray provides software composition analysis across artifacts, dependencies, and CVEs, and integrates with the broader JFrog DevOps platform. It directly competes with Bloodhound's vulnerability and dependency analysis for enterprise software supply chains.
• Mend (formerly WhiteSource): Mend offers SCA, license compliance, and security vulnerability detection across open-source dependencies, closely aligned with Bloodhound's dependency and CVE tracking. Targets enterprise AppSec buyers with a comparable offering.

Broad incumbents

• Veracode: Veracode provides application security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA) for enterprise development and security teams. While broader than Bloodhound, its SCA module directly addresses the dependency and vulnerability analysis use case.
• GitHub: GitHub Dependabot and Dependabot Security Updates provide native dependency and CVE scanning directly within the developer workflow. As a broad incumbent with massive distribution, GitHub represents both a competing capability and a potential integration/distribution channel for Version.
• Synopsys (Black Duck): Synopsys Black Duck is a long-standing SCA and open-source security suite used widely in enterprise AppSec and M&A tech diligence. It is a broad incumbent offering overlapping dependency, CVE, and license compliance functionality with Bloodhound.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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