History
Douglas (Doug) Levin founded Black Duck in 2002, at a time when litigation over open source and software intellectual property began in the United States, including the high-profile SCO v. IBM case. The idea struck him that there should be an automated way to keep track of and verify software code origins. Today the company is focused on the broad adoption, governance and enablement of OSS across the application development lifecycle.
Black Duck Software began shipping its first product, Protex, in 2004. In July 2004, the company had its first round of venture capital funding for $5 million, with investments from Flagship Ventures and General Catalyst Partners.
In March 2005, the company announced a hosted service, Black Duck Transact In June 2005, a second round of funding added $12 million in investment capital led by Fidelity Ventures of Boston and including Intel Capital (a division of Intel Corporation), SAP Ventures (a division of SAP AG) and Red Hat, along with existing investors Flagship Ventures and General Catalyst Partners. Throughout 2005, the company created partnerships with other open source organizations, including Red Hat, the Open Source Software Institute, Sourceforge, and Olliance Group .
During 2006 Black Duck integrated Protex with the IBM Rational management platform and released the Black Duck Export product. Also in 2006, the company expanded its distribution network to include resellers in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Israel, and Korea.
In February 2007, Black Duck Software completed a third round of venture capital investment for $12 million, led by Focus Ventures and also including existing investors. The company joined the Open Solutions Alliance in April 2007, received IBM SOA Specialty acceptance in October and, in November 2007, added distribution partners in Hong Kong. Also in November 2007, the company began a distribution partnership with NEC in Japan.
On January 28, 2008, Black Duck introduced Black Duck Code Center, a role-based management system for mixed-origin software development.
On April 28, 2008, Black Duck Software acquired the assets and technologies of open source code search engine Koders. The Koders search engine will remain free of charge.
On February 10, 2009, the company announced Tim Yeaton as the new President and CEO of Black Duck Software.
On October 5, 2010, Black Duck Software acquired Ohloh.net, a free public directory of open source software and OSS users, from Geeknet.
In January 2011, Black Duck acquired The Olliance Group, a privately held independent open source business and strategy consulting firm.
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