{
  "id": 7405605,
  "title": "Meet Sonar: HackerNoon Company of the Week",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/meet-sonar-hackernoon-company-of-the-week",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-14T16:59:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "HackerNoon",
    "slug": "hackernoon",
    "url": "https://hackernoon.com/meet-sonar-hackernoon-company-of-the-week?source=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Welcome to the HackerNoon Company of the Week feature, where we spotlight exceptional companies shaping the global tech landscape. This week, we introduce Sonar, a pioneer in automated code review for over 17 years. Sonar unifies code quality and security into a single platform, trusted by 7 million developers, including Snowflake, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford. With a commanding 94% market share, Sonar's tools power over 400,000 organizations, built through steady growth over 17 years. The company has raised over $450 million in funding and boasts a $4.7 billion valuation. Looking ahead to 2026, Sonar is focused on AI-written code, developing tools to check the quality and security of code generated by AI. Since 2020, Sonar has been part of HackerNoon's Business Blogging Program, garnering over 16,000 total reads and 27+ days of reading time.",
  "summary": "Meet Sonar, the company that has been setting the standard for automated code review for 17+ years by unifying code quality and security into one platform.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}