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About Opal
Industries
Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$33.8M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2020
Overview
Opal.dev provides an access management platform for IT and infrastructure teams to enforce the principle of least privilege. The product automates access requests, delegates approvals to system owners, and offers visualization tools with an end-to-end audit trail for Just-In-Time (JIT) access, helping compliance teams meet regulatory requirements. It can be delivered as a cloud service via subscription, with an option for self-hosting to meet data sovereignty needs. Opal generates revenue by charging for its scalable access management platform and related workflows, and has raised funding to accelerate growth. Compared with competitors, Opal emphasizes a clear audit trail, JIT access, least-privilege enforcement, and flexible deployment (including self-hosting), focusing on security plus productivity. The company’s goal is to help IT and security teams manage access to sensitive systems more securely and efficiently while supporting regulatory compliance and scalable governance.
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $22M Series B from Battery Ventures in December 2023 fuels product expansion.
- AWS Marketplace and PagerDuty integrations embed Opal in DevOps workflows.
- Self-hosting captures finance and healthcare with data sovereignty needs.
What critics are saying
- Acurity's policy-as-code engine erodes Opal's differentiation in 6-12 months.
- Okta Workflows commoditize JIT access, slashing Opal subscriptions in 12-18 months.
- Google Vertex AI replicates Paladin free for GCP users in 3-6 months.
What makes Opal unique
- Paladin AI agent autonomously approves access requests using identity and history.
- OpalScript codifies access policies in Python-like language for engineers.
- OpalQuery enables natural language queries on access data for compliance.
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Funding
Total Funding
$33.8M
Below
Industry Average
Funded Over
3 Rounds
BoxGroup
Battery Ventures
Greylock PartnersIndustry standards
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401(k) Retirement Plan
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Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -1%1 year growth
↑ 0%2 year growth
↑ 25%Opal Security has launched three AI-native capabilities forming the industry's first unified platform for access governance. The launch centres on Paladin, an AI access evaluation agent that autonomously reviews and approves access requests by examining identity, history, and justification, operating as a first-class reviewer with decision authority. The platform includes OpalScript, a Python-like policy language for codifying access logic, and OpalQuery, an AI-powered tool for exploring access data using natural language queries. Together, they enable organisations to see, encode and enforce access policies. The launch follows Opal Labs' report revealing that 48.6% of employees hold at least one unused entitlement for over three months, with over 40,000 active access assignments remaining unused. Auto-granted access is 50% more likely to go unused than manually reviewed access.
Opal Security, which helps companies manage access and identities, raises $22M.
Opal Security, a startup building a platform for managing access and identities across organizations, has raised $22 million in a venture round.
Opal has partnered with PagerDuty to build a new solution.
NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opal announced today that they have closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Greylock.
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About Opal
Industries
Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$33.8M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2020
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