mlab / Equity.
Fund your security stack with equity, not cash.
Early-stage startups get the entire mlab.sh stack in exchange for a small equity stake.
Pay in equity, keep your cash.
A recurring security bill eats the runway you need to build. With mlab Equity you swap that cash line for a single, small stake. The value you unlock keeps compounding as you scale, while your stake stays exactly the same.
What that bill looks like over your runway.
Each bar is the running total at that month, with annual licences spread across the twelve months they cover.
Apply
Tell us about your startup, your stage and what you're building. A short form to start the conversation.
Agree the terms
We review together and agree a small equity stake in exchange for full stack access. No cash changes hands.
Get the stack
Your team is onboarded onto every mlab.sh product, with support as you scale securely.
The equity stake unlocks the entire mlab.sh stack, governance, detection, attack surface and training, for your whole team.
Three shapes we see often. Illustrative, not a template: the stack you turn on is whatever your stage actually calls for.
No one owns security yet
- RedKit scans the domains and surfaces what is already public
- IOC and file analysis for the alerts nobody can triage
- academy.mlab.sh so the founding engineers pick up the basics
The first enterprise deal stalls
- tprm.mlab.sh to run the third-party side and answer with evidence
- vuln.mlab.sh for continuous CVE tracking on the stack
- risk.mlab.sh to put a real method behind the risk answers
The first security hire arrives
- ir.mlab.sh turns alerts into structured investigations
- hunt.mlab.sh for Sigma and YARA detection engineering
- The API, CLI and MCP integration to wire it into what exists
Early-stage startups (pre-seed to seed) that need a real security posture but want to preserve runway.
Teams that would rather trade a small, long-term equity stake than a recurring cash bill.
Founders who value a security partner genuinely invested in their success.
Your stage, your team and what you are building. A few lines is enough to know whether this is a fit.
A real conversation about what you need from the stack and what your security posture has to look like for your customers.
The stake is discussed openly and written down before anything is signed. No cash changes hands at any point.
Every product in the ecosystem is opened up for the whole team, with direct support as you scale.
A small stake, agreed case by case. It depends on your stage and on how much of the ecosystem you need. Nothing is fixed before we have talked, and nothing is signed before it is written down.
No. That is the whole point of the program: the equity stake replaces the bill, it does not sit next to it.
The entire mlab.sh stack, for your whole team: governance, detection, attack surface, tooling and API, and training. Not a starter tier of it.
Yes, and that is not a detail. On a normal contract the onboarding and the ongoing support are quoted on top of the licences. With mlab Equity they come with the stake instead of arriving as an extra line on the invoice.
The program is built for pre-seed to seed companies, which is exactly the stage where a security bill is hardest to justify. If you are unsure whether you fit, say so in the form and we will tell you straight.
Interested in mlab Equity?
Tell us about your startup and we'll take it from there.