Knox Systems

Knox Systems

AI-driven FedRAMP compliance for SaaS providers

Overview

Knox Systems provides AI-driven compliance solutions for SaaS providers seeking to sell to the federal government, focusing on FedRAMP readiness. Its CMX AI-native Auditor scans code repositories and infrastructure to map security controls to FedRAMP requirements, identify gaps, and generate FedRAMP-ready reports. The company differentiates itself by combining an AI auditing engine with pre-authorized platforms and transparent remediation guidance to speed up compliance and reduce costs. Its goal is to help SaaS vendors reach the federal IT market, worth about $100 billion, by shortening time to compliant state and accelerating customer acquisition.

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About Knox Systems

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Why Knox Systems is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Consulting

Enterprise Software

Cybersecurity

AI & Machine Learning

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$31.5M

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

2025

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What believers are saying

  • June 2026 partnerships with Google and Microsoft widened Knox’s federal distribution.
  • April 2026 FedRAMP High authorization expanded Knox into higher-sensitivity civilian and defense workloads.
  • August 2026 IL5 launch opened Space Force and DoW workloads to Knox customers.

What critics are saying

  • FedRAMP 2026 certification changes shrink Knox’s inheritance advantage versus Palantir FedStart and stackArmor.
  • Microsoft, Google, and CrowdStrike reduce switching costs, then compress Knox’s pricing power.
  • Any federal breach or PMO policy reversal ends Knox’s inherited-boundary model and customer trust.

What makes Knox Systems unique

  • Knox runs pre-authorized boundaries across AWS, Azure, and GCP, without re-architecture.
  • Knox claims 90-day FedRAMP authorization and 16 federal ATOs by September 2026.
  • Knox serves 100-plus SaaS and AI providers inside one managed federal cloud.

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Funding

Total Funding

$31.5M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
Series A Funding Comparison
Above Average

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 4%

1 year growth

↑ 56%

2 year growth

↑ 10%
PR Newswire
Sep 24th, 2026
Knox Systems expands commitment to veteran hiring through new recruiting partnerships.

Knox Systems expands commitment to veteran hiring through new recruiting partnerships. Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 ET Partnerships with VetJobs, Military Spouse Jobs, and Hire Heroes USA will expand career opportunities for veterans and military spouses across departments at Knox WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Knox Systems ("Knox"), the largest FedRAMP and DISA-managed cloud provider, today announced new recruiting partnerships with VetJobs, Military Spouse Jobs, and Hire Heroes USA, expanding the company's commitment to hiring veterans and members of the military community. Today, veterans represent 25% of Knox's security workforce, bringing their critical experience to the company's security, technology, and operations lines of effort. Through these partnerships, Knox will expand its recruiting pipeline and connect veterans and military families with opportunities across the organization. "Every day at Knox, we see the powerful expertise and leadership veterans bring to our team," said Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems. "Their experience makes our company stronger and makes us better equipped to serve the federal government. We're proud to have a strong number of veterans on our team, and our latest partnerships reflect our commitment to creating more pathways for those who have served to build their next chapter at Knox." Knox's commitment extends across the company and its departments. All open roles welcome veteran applicants, and the company is working with hiring managers to identify opportunities where military experience and highly specialized technical or security expertise can make a direct impact. The initiative is being led in partnership by Hemant Baidwan, former CISO of the Department of Homeland Security and current Executive CISO at Knox, and Kristen Tsamoudakis, VP, Head of People. Their partnership underscores the company's focus on connecting veteran recruiting directly with business and mission needs. Knox has engaged with experienced partners that connect military-community candidates to successful career paths. "Quality employment is such a key factor in the success of the military family," said Angie Fair, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at VetJobs and Military Spouse Jobs. "We appreciate our relationship with Knox Systems and their commitment to connecting with and creating pathways of employment for our military community." As part of the initiative, Knox will also participate in a virtual career fair with Hire Heroes USA on September 24, connecting directly with transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses seeking their next career opportunity. "Meaningful employer engagement can make a real difference for veterans and military spouses navigating their careers," said Charlotte Creech, Chief Program Officer at Hire Heroes USA. "We're pleased to work with Knox to create direct connections with military-connected job seekers, helping them explore opportunities that align with their skills, experience, and career goals." About Knox Systems Knox Systems operates the largest managed government cloud, trusted by leading agencies and partners across the defense and civilian sectors. Built for speed, resilience, and compliance, Knox helps software and AI companies navigate FedRAMP authorization and deliver modern technology to the federal ecosystem. With the support of sponsors from 18 agencies including DHS, DoW, FEMA, NIH, and more, Knox serves over 100 leading AI and SaaS providers, accelerating the delivery of mission-ready technology. Media Contact SOURCE Knox Systems, Inc

PR Newswire
Sep 16th, 2026
ThreatModeler achieves FedRAMP Moderate Authorization through partnership with Knox Systems.

ThreatModeler achieves FedRAMP Moderate Authorization through partnership with Knox Systems. Sep 16, 2026, 09:01 ET ThreatModeler Nexus platform brings continuous, living threat modeling to federal agencies JERSEY CITY, N.J. and WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - ThreatModeler, a leader in AI-powered threat modeling and continuous security intelligence, today announced that ThreatModeler Nexus has achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization in partnership with Knox Systems (Knox), the largest, longest-running federal managed cloud. The authorization allows federal agencies to deploy ThreatModeler's automated threat modeling and continuous security intelligence in environments handling controlled unclassified information (CUI) and other moderate-impact federal data, giving government customers access to the same continuous, evolving threat modeling capability already relied on by ThreatModeler's commercial customers. "Achieving FedRAMP Moderate reflects our commitment to helping federal teams automate continuous threat modeling, without slowing down development," said Kevin Gallagher, CEO at ThreatModeler. "Agencies can now bring the Secure Design Graph and NexusAI into their most sensitive environments and know threat modeling intelligence is built into their security process, not bolted on." For agencies under pressure to build secure software faster without static documentation piling up behind every release, the authorization makes that possible inside an authorized boundary. "Threat models are only useful if they keep pace with the software they're meant to protect, and static documentation reviewed annually cannot do that in environments where code changes daily," said Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems. "With the support of Knox, federal agencies can now put ThreatModeler's Nexus platform to work keeping threat models as current the applications they describe, giving teams continuous security intelligence inside environments handling CUI." Knox's managed cloud infrastructure eliminated the FedRAMP Authorization bottleneck and absorbed the complexity of FedRAMP compliance for ThreatModeler, enabling the company to accelerate its authorization faster and more cost-effectively. To learn more about ThreatModeler's Nexus platform, visit https://www.threatmodeler.ai. For more information about FedRAMP Authorization through Knox, visit https://knoxsystems.com/. About ThreatModeler ThreatModeler is a leader in AI-powered threat modeling and continuous security intelligence. The ThreatModeler Nexus platform helps organizations build secure software from the start by making threat modeling easy, scalable, and continuously up to date. Trusted by leading enterprises worldwide and backed by 14 patents, ThreatModeler helps organizations reduce manual effort, strengthen governance, scale threat modeling across thousands of applications, and continuously improve their security posture. About Knox Systems Knox Systems operates the largest managed federal cloud, trusted by top agencies and partners across defense and civilian sectors. Built for speed, resilience, and compliance, Knox delivers FedRAMP authorization in 90 days - turning the biggest bottleneck in government IT into the fastest path to modernization. Knox proudly serves Adobe, Celonis, OutSystems, Armis, BigID, and more AI and SaaS providers, accelerating secure innovation across the federal landscape. Learn more at knoxsystems.com. Media Contacts SOURCE Knox Systems, Inc

PR Newswire
Sep 9th, 2026
Knox Systems launches IL5 environment for US military's most sensitive workloads

Knox Systems has launched an Impact Level 5 environment, sponsored by the US Space Force, to support the Department of War's most sensitive workloads. IL5 is one of the government's most stringent security accreditations. The new environment provides a secure landing zone for commercial software and AI applications handling Controlled Unclassified Information and mission-critical National Security Systems. It extends Knox's existing FedRAMP High and Impact Level 4 capabilities, held since 2019. Knox operates a managed federal cloud allowing commercial technology providers to deploy secure government versions without building standalone environments. The company currently has 16 sponsors across federal agencies and supports over 100 AI and SaaS providers, including Adobe, Sierra, Vannevar, and Sift. The platform aims to enable faster access to commercial technology whilst maintaining elevated security standards for high-impact defence missions.

Tech Funding News
Sep 9th, 2026
CloudNC raises $20M from Nimble Ventures and Lockheed Martin's fund as its AI reaches 1,000+ machine shops.

CloudNC raises $20M from Nimble Ventures and Lockheed Martin's fund as its AI reaches 1,000+ machine shops. September 9, 2026 * CloudNC raised $20 million, led by Nimble Ventures, with Lockheed Martin's fund also investing. * Its AI software, CAM Assist, now runs in more than 1,000 machine shops worldwide. * CloudNC is pursuing FedRAMP certification to sell directly to US defence agencies. Theo Saville spent his university years getting comfortable with 3D printers before he ever touched a CNC machine. The jump was jarring: a 3D printer took a file and made a part; a CNC machine took a file, an engineer's patience, and days of manual programming before it made anything at all. His future co-founder, Chris Emery, had assumed the machines were already automatic. 10 years after the two set out to fix that gap, CloudNC has raised $20 million, led by US investor Nimble Ventures, with Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and LM Ventures also participating. From a lab frustration to 1,000 machine shops. CloudNC, founded in London in 2015 by Saville and Emery, builds software that automates CNC programming, historically one of manufacturing's slowest, most manual steps. Emery brought the coding side: he had been writing software since age 12, sold his own shareware at 15, and later worked as an engineer at Google before co-founding CloudNC. Its flagship product, CAM Assist, plugs directly into CAM packages such as Fusion, Mastercam, and Siemens NX and generates milling strategies and toolpaths in seconds rather than hours. It now runs in more than 1,000 machine shops globally, including hundreds in the US, and counts Lockheed Martin and Major Tool and Machine among its customers. Targeting the boring bottleneck: quoting. The new money will fund CloudNC's expansion into new markets and the launch of Quote Agent, an AI tool for quoting and estimating machining jobs, due later in 2026. Quoting is unglamorous but expensive to get wrong: move too slowly, and a shop loses the job. "Quoting is one of the biggest hidden bottlenecks in precision machining: move too slowly, and shops can lose the opportunity, or price inaccurately and they can lose margin once the job reaches production," Saville said. That puts CloudNC up against Paperless Parts, the Boston quoting platform that has raised $45.5 million and added its own AI layer, and against fellow CAM-automation startups Limitless Labs, the Tel Aviv startup that Tech Funding News covered raising $20 million in June to program parts for Blue Origin and Cadillac's F1 team - and Manukai, the Zurich, ETH spinout that raised $3 million. CloudNC's edge is scale: more than 1,000 live shop deployments is a bigger footprint than either rival claims. Lockheed Martin, investor and customer. The more interesting wrinkle is Lockheed Martin's dual role. It is both a named customer and, through LM Ventures, a repeat investor - it also joined CloudNC's $45 million Series B in 2022, which we covered at the time. CloudNC is now working with Knox Systems toward FedRAMP certification for CAM Assist, the US government's cloud-security standard, a step that would open the door to defence and other sensitive manufacturing workloads. Nimble Ventures founder John Burbank, who built the $4 billion hedge fund Passport Capital before moving into venture investing, said: "CloudNC's automation of CNC will enable massive increases in onshoring of manufacturing and global production of mission-critical components." AI is moving deeper into manufacturing. CloudNC's Series A raised £9 million from Atomico in 2018. Its 2022 Series B added $45 million from Autodesk, Lockheed Martin, and British Patient Capital. Saville has previously put the company's total funding at more than $75 million; this round takes that past $95 million. The CNC programming software market alone is estimated at $823 million and is forecast to reach $1.16 billion by 2034, a fraction of the broader industrial-AI wave that has also funded Berlin's Almetra, a €16.3 million for factory-floor vision, and London's Isembard, which raised £37.5 million to run AI factories directly. Whether CAM Assist and Quote Agent end up as the default layer between CAD file and finished part, or just one of several competing copilots vying for the same shop floor, depends on how many machinists actually trust software to make that first call.

PR Newswire
Aug 20th, 2026
Knox Systems names ex-Palantir, Onebrief exec Melissa Glauber VP of marketing and communications

Knox Systems, the largest federal AI-managed cloud provider, has appointed Melissa Glauber as Vice President of Marketing and Communications. Glauber brings over a decade of go-to-market experience, having previously served as founding marketing hire and Head of Marketing at Onebrief and as the first demand generation hire at Palantir Technologies. In her new role, Glauber will lead Knox's growth strategy and brand development. The company specialises in delivering FedRAMP authorisation in 90 days, serving clients including Adobe, Celonis, OutSystems, Armis, and BigID. Knox Systems operates the largest managed federal cloud, working with agencies across defence and civilian sectors. The appointment comes as the company scales its operations bridging American innovation and government agencies.

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