Name: FOSSA
Rating: 4.4 (7 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is FOSSA?

FOSSA is a software designed to automate open source license compliance and manage dependencies within development workflows. The software scans codebases to identify open source components and tracks changes as projects evolve, providing visibility into licenses, vulnerabilities, and dependencies. It offers policy enforcement capabilities to help organizations meet regulatory and legal requirements related to open source usage. FOSSA integrates with continuous integration and deployment pipelines to enable real-time monitoring and reporting, supporting collaboration among engineering, legal, and security teams. The software aims to address challenges in large-scale open source management by centralizing data, reducing manual effort, and supporting audit preparation.

Overall experience with FOSSA

Software Development Manager

30B + USD, Software

FAVORABLE

“Responsive Engineering Team Noted Amid Ongoing Functionality and Usability Problems”

4.0

Apr 6, 2026

Customer support is amazing - they have a dedicated team that readily helps their customers and answers their questions and concerns. The product itself has been on and off but mostly a reliable product

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CRITICAL

About Company

Company Description

FOSSA is an organization that provides support to software companies, revolutionizing their approach towards their code. FOSSA focuses on laying the groundwork that enables modern teams to effectively incorporate open source into their operations. The primary product of FOSSA assists these teams in tracking the open source elements incorporated into their code. It also automates the process of license scanning and compliance. FOSSA's tools have therefore become a crucial element for software shipping. Software industry participants normally utilize code that interacts with FOSSA. The organization has financially supported its operations through venture capital funding.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2015

Head office location

San Francisco, United States

Number of employees

51 - 200

Annual Revenue

<50M USD

Website

http://fossa.com

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FOSSA Likes & Dislikes

Again, customer service is top notch. It's quite easy to build relationships with their engineering team as they have dedicated folks responding to questions and resolving concerns. Feels reassuring to know you can expect a response within 1-2 hours.

Remote results in the UI Dashboard. And the simplicity of understanding the guardrails.

- extensive API that allows you to integrate the product into complex and pre-existing workflows - policy based automation and custom policies save engineering time every day - Clear and developer focused UI makes it more likely, that developers use the product

The product's accuracy/efficiency affects us quite heavily - we frequently report issues with their results, UI issues, accuracy issues and the service being down (when the maintenance site says everything is operational).

Nothing that I can think of, I haven't had any bad experiences with it.

- UI loading times are quite slow sometimes - Policy editing is a slow and tedious manual process with no import option - Some basic things are way easier done via API than using the UI - The documentation seems to lag behind product development (especially screenshots)

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Responsive Engineering Team Noted Amid Ongoing Functionality and Usability Problems

Software Developer

Consistent Dashboard Results and Simple Guardrails Characterize Product Experience for OSS

5.0

Implementation is smooth, the UI dashboard for results is easy to reference, and the results are consistent, at least for OSS.

1B-10B USD

Manufacturing

Product Integration and Automations Boost Engineering Efficiency

Oct 18, 2024

Staff really care about the customer experience and value constructive feedback.

Useful, intuitive, but not without overhead

Apr 1, 2024

In general FOSSA seems like a useful tool. In general, it does a good job of informing me what I need to do to remediate a vulnerability. I cannot say which part of this is FOSSA's fault or the way my org has it configured, but at times it is incredibly annoying when a FOSSA issue blows a build the morning of a production launch for a non-critical issue. This has cost me personally a lot of time and headache. Not the tool's fault, but perhaps worth noting to people selling this software to do that as best practice?

SVP Engineering

Banking

Come for the SBOMs stay for the product vision

Mar 26, 2024

The product team, support team, and executives are committed to our success. They are extremely helpful and easy to work with. The product itself solves an important need in a very effective way. We looked at many alternatives and selected this one because we think that we'll be better off in the long run. We'd also heard of many other companies that used them successfully. Their excellent reputation is well deserved.

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“Responsive Engineering Team Noted Amid Ongoing Functionality and Usability Problems”