Metalware
"Secure your firmware"
San Francisco firmware security startup (YC W24) offering automated binary fuzzing to detect vulnerabilities in embedded device firmware.
Metalware is a San Francisco, California-based cybersecurity company founded in 2023 by Ryan Chow and Andrew Nedea. The company develops an automated, end-to-end firmware fuzzing platform for microcontroller-based embedded systems, enabling organizations to discover and remediate security vulnerabilities in firmware binaries before products are deployed in the field.
Metalware's core product performs binary firmware analysis without requiring source code, physical hardware access, or manual security researcher intervention. The platform uses automated fuzz testing—a technique that feeds unexpected or malformed inputs to firmware to uncover crashes, memory corruption, and other security weaknesses. This approach targets the firmware layer that sits below operating systems and traditional application security tools, which is often left unexamined in conventional security workflows.
The company's primary target industries include aerospace, automotive, defense, industrial control systems, telecommunications, medical devices, and IoT. Metalware's solution is available as a cloud-hosted service or as an on-premise deployment for customers with air-gapped or classified environments.
Metalware participated in Y Combinator (YC batch W24) and was named one of the Top 10 Finalists at the RSA Conference 2025 Innovation Sandbox contest, one of the most prominent recognition programs for early-stage security startups. The company's co-founders have backgrounds at SpaceX, JHU APL (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), Amazon Robotics, and Autodesk.
Although Metalware is classified in the robotics supplier context due to its relevance to embedded firmware in robotic systems and its Amazon Robotics-linked founding team, its primary commercial focus is firmware security for critical infrastructure broadly, not robotics specifically. The company has approximately 4 employees and is in early commercial deployment.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Metalware Firmware Fuzzer
- Launch Year: 2023
Automated binary firmware fuzzing platform that detects vulnerabilities in embedded devices without source code or hardware access.
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Contact Metalware
WEBSITE
https://www.metalware.comHEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
2023
Primary Role
Software/Algorithm
Company Size
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Primary Region
North America
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
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Funding Total
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