Vanta

Vanta

Automates SOC 2 compliance checks via SaaS

Overview

Vanta provides a SaaS platform that helps small to mid-sized organizations obtain and maintain SOC 2 certification through automated checks and continuous monitoring. The product integrates with a company’s systems to run checks, track control effectiveness, and generate ready evidence, reports, and submission-ready documentation. It differentiates itself by offering ongoing compliance instead of one-off audits, with scalable checks and automated workflows tailored to SMEs and tech companies. The goal is to make SOC 2 faster, cheaper, and easier to sustain so organizations can focus on their core business while keeping strong security controls.

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About Vanta

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Why Vanta is rated
B+
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated A on Growth Potential
Rated B on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

Cybersecurity

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$503M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2018

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What believers are saying

  • Vanta said August 2026 ARR exceeded $300 million, up 63% year over year.
  • Over 16,000 customers, including Snowflake, GitHub, Atlassian, and Harvey, validate enterprise demand.
  • Sarah Scharf’s new CMO role and AI marketing push sharpen category leadership into 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Drata, Secureframe, and OneTrust compress Vanta’s pricing power in 2026.
  • A $4.15 billion valuation demands hypergrowth; slower ARR expansion disappoints investors by 2027.
  • Public-sector momentum depends on FedRAMP and Carahsoft; a procurement slowdown hurts 2027 growth.

What makes Vanta unique

  • Vanta’s Trust Graph spans 400+ integrations and 1,400+ tests across 35 frameworks.
  • July 2026 FedRAMP 20x Class C certification gives Vanta rare public-sector credibility.
  • Agentic Trust Platform bundles compliance, vendor risk, and AI governance into one workflow.

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Funding

Total Funding

$503M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

6 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series D funding is typically for companies that are already well-established but need more funding to continue their growth. This round is often used to stabilize the company or prepare for an IPO.
Series D Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$77M
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Twilio
$80M
Handshake
$100M
Affirm
$150M
Vanta

Benefits

100% Benefits Coverage

Flexible & Remote Work

Paid Parental Leave

Unlimited PTO

Health & Wellness

401(k)

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

2%
Associated Press
Aug 12th, 2026
Vanta names Sarah Scharf CMO as trust platform hits $300M ARR

Vanta has appointed Sarah Scharf as chief marketing officer. Scharf joined Vanta in 2020 as its first product marketer and has since led every function within the company's marketing organisation. Reporting directly to CEO Christina Cacioppo, she will oversee product marketing, brand, communications, content, growth, and revenue marketing. During her tenure, Scharf led Vanta's positioning through three category shifts: from automated compliance to trust management to agentic trust. The appointment comes as Vanta surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue, reaching the milestone nine months after hitting $200 million. Over 16,000 companies, including Snowflake, GitHub, and Ramp, use Vanta's platform. Before Vanta, Scharf spent seven years at Google in product marketing roles. She holds a degree from Stanford University.

Business Insider
Aug 12th, 2026
$4 billion Vanta has a new CMO who wants to make security compliance marketing 'a little zingier'

$4 billion Vanta has a new CMO who wants to make security compliance marketing 'a little zingier' Aug 12, 2026, 4:00 AM PT Security-compliance software startup Vanta wants to become known as a "trust company" that can also have a bit of fun. It's entrusting a new CMO to get it there. Vanta has promoted its VP of marketing, Sarah Scharf, to CMO, the company exclusively told CMO Insider. In an interview, Scharf said the two tasks at the top of her to-do list are to solidify the Vanta brand's association with trust among its clients and potential customers, and to reinvent how the company gets marketing done internally in the age of AI. "How can we capture the moment and also reposition Vanta in a way to showcase how we help businesses of all sizes instill and maintain that trust in a world where AI makes it harder to come by and maintain?" Scharf said. Founded in 2018, Vanta offers an automated platform that helps companies assess the security and compliance of their products. While it's best known for helping startups complete processes like SOC 2 audits, it's branched out to offer services to larger enterprise customers, in areas such as assessing third-party risk and AI governance. Its customers include Snowflake, GitHub, and the Golden State Warriors. Vanta said it was valued at about $4 billion in a funding round last year. Vanta has sought to stand out from its competitors with playful marketing, such as plastering San Francisco with billboards reading: "Compliance that doesn't SOC 2 much." Scharf, who joined the company in 2020, said she wants Vanta to continue marketing "with a wink," while other security brands tend to focus on fear and posturing to emphasize their strength. "We're a compliance company, we're giving you security information. Some of that is going to be bland and boring, but what can we do to make it just a little zingier?" Scharf said. "We want to be seen as trusted experts, someone you can come to with a question," she added. "We're not arrogant or looking down." While these marketing efforts can help humanize the brand in an often dusty sector, Sarah Ashdown, consumer marketing and revenue director at the consultancy Manifesto Growth Architects, said Vanta can't simply build "trust" into a platform or claim it through positioning alone. "Trust is earned over time through the quality of the service, the outcomes customers achieve, and the relationship a business builds with them," Ashdown said. Where Scharf is investing Vanta's marketing budget. Scharf said the company is investing its marketing budget in areas such as influencer marketing and podcasts. This summer, it launched a video podcast called "The Tabletop," in which it invites chief information security officers to role-play live "situation-room"-style scenarios, such as how they would respond to a security breach. "That's what people want to watch and engage with, and also has the added benefit now that LLM search is blowing up, and high-authority, owned content is very additive for LLM discovery," Scharf said. Internally, Scharf said Vanta is using AI to streamline repetitive tasks, like resizing advertising assets and editing content. It's also using tools like Midjourney to prototype campaigns. When hiring, Scharf said she is screening candidates for AI proficiency - though "not from a tokenmaxxing perspective."

VocoLife
Jul 21st, 2026
Cloud Combinator & Vanta partner for AI security on AWS.

Cloud Combinator & Vanta partner for AI security on AWS. 2h ago · 0:00 listen · Source: EU-Startups Summary. Cloud Combinator has partnered with Vanta to offer AI security and compliance solutions for AWS startups. This collaboration aims to address the challenge of proving AI systems are secure and compliant from the start. Cloud Combinator, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, specializes in data, AI, and machine learning. Vanta is an agentic trust platform. They are working together through the AWS BOX Program. The partnership focuses on AI security and compliance as a specialized discipline. Many teams need a partner to manage this, rather than hiring new staff. This is especially true with new regulations like the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001 becoming global benchmarks. Cloud Combinator provides architecture and governance. Vanta offers an agentic trust platform that automates evidence collection and monitors controls on AWS. This joint solution helps startups gain expertise that was previously only available to large enterprises. The partnership covers the full AI compliance lifecycle, from scoping to audit-ready evidence. This allows AI startups to move from a working product to an enterprise contract more quickly. This is an AI-generated audio summary. Always check the original source for complete reporting.

ExecutiveBiz
Jul 14th, 2026
Vanta's cloud offering achieves FedRAMP 20x Class C certification.

Vanta's cloud offering achieves FedRAMP 20x Class C certification. * Vanta's cloud agentic platform has secured FedRAMP 20x Class C certification * The platform helps agencies strengthen security and compliance operations * The 2026 FedCiv Summit will cover AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more As federal agencies continue advancing secure technology adoption and compliance initiatives, government and industry leaders will gather to discuss emerging modernization priorities at the 2026 FedCiv Summit on Oct. 29. The event will feature discussions about artificial intelligence adoption across government; data, cloud and compute infrastructure; cybersecurity and compliance-driven initiatives; and more. Reserve your seat now to join the discussions on the technologies shaping the future of civilian government operations. Carahsoft said Thursday it serves as Vanta's public sector distributor to give agencies access to the latter's agentic trust platform, training and related services. In September, Vanta partnered with Carahsoft to facilitate the delivery of its cloud-based agentic trust platform to public sector organizations through Carahsoft's reseller partners and contract vehicles, including the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and The Quilt contracts. How does Vanta's agentic platform support government agencies? Vanta's cloud-based agentic trust platform helps government agencies and vendors manage compliance and risk across complex cybersecurity environments. The platform supports more than 35 frameworks, including the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Special Publication 800-53, FedRAMP and Service and Organization Controls 2. The company's platform uses AI and automation to reduce manual compliance efforts, simplify workflows and improve visibility into security operations. Vanta's offering is designed to help organizations align with federal requirements while managing continuous compliance activities. What did Vanta & Carahsoft officials say about the certification? Morgan Kaplan, head of public sector at Vanta, said achieving FedRAMP 20x Class C certification represents a milestone for the company and reinforces its commitment to helping federal agencies modernize security and compliance operations. Kaplan said the authorization enables agencies to leverage Vanta's automated trust management platform to streamline risk management, improve continuous compliance, and increase visibility across security ecosystems. Brian O'Donnell, vice president of cybersecurity solutions at Carahsoft, said the certification enables agencies to strengthen security and compliance operations through Vanta's automated trust management platform. "This milestone underscores a shared commitment to advancing modern, scalable approaches to compliance across the Public Sector. Together with our reseller partners, Vanta and Carahsoft are helping agencies accelerate IT modernization initiatives with FedRAMP-authorized solutions that support continuous compliance, risk visibility and operational resilience," added O'Donnell. is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders' perspectives on government technology trends.

Scadable
Jul 12th, 2026
Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, and Oneleet: how the fix-first model is different.

Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, and Oneleet: how the fix-first model is different. An honest comparison of Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, and Oneleet. Each is genuinely good at what it does. None of them remediate findings, which is the one real gap Scadable is built to close. Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, and Oneleet are all real, well-built products, each genuinely good at parts of the compliance workflow. Vanta and Drata lead the category on breadth of frameworks and integrations, with large customer bases and mature self-serve motions. Secureframe competes at the same tier. Oneleet is the closest thing to a consolidated platform, combining AI risk review, code scanning, and pentest bundling. What none of the four do, by their own public product descriptions, is fix what they find. They identify a gap and hand it to a human to close. Scadable identifies the gap and closes it. That is not a knock on any of them. It is the honest shape of the category today, and it is worth naming plainly before making the one comparison that actually matters. What is Vanta actually good at? Vanta is the category leader by customer count, citing more than 16,000 customers and a dense wall of named logos across software companies. Its homepage leads with "trust," positions itself as an "Agentic Trust Platform," and backs that up with quantified time-saved metrics like thousands of hours saved annually and a large share of security questionnaires automated. Vanta's real strength is scale: broad framework coverage (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, and more), a large integration catalog, and a self-serve-to-enterprise motion that has clearly worked for thousands of companies. If your need is broad, mature, self-serve coverage across many frameworks today, Vanta is a legitimate answer to that need. What is Drata actually good at? Drata sits at near feature parity with Vanta and uses almost identical language to describe itself, down to calling itself an "Agentic Trust Management Platform." It cites more than 8,500 customers and a 4.8 rating on G2, with its own metrics around audit-prep time reduction and hours saved annually. Like Vanta, Drata's strength is breadth: the same wide framework badge wall, a comparable integration footprint, and a product built for teams that want one dashboard covering everything from evidence collection to auditor-facing documentation. Drata's agentic layer automates evidence gathering and the paperwork that goes with it, which is a real and useful thing to automate well. What is Secureframe actually good at? Secureframe competes in the same tier as Vanta and Drata: evidence collection, continuous control monitoring, and audit-readiness workflows aimed at the same buyer. It is a known, credible option in this category for teams evaluating compliance automation platforms, and belongs in the same conversation as the other three. Its specific product depth is closer to Vanta and Drata's shape than to Oneleet's, built around the same evidence-and-monitoring core loop common to this category. What is Oneleet actually good at? Oneleet is the closest structural comparison to how Scadable is built: a single consolidated platform rather than a dashboard stitched to a separate audit process, combining AI-driven risk assessment, a code scanner, and pentest bundling in one place. It has real traction, a 4.9 rating on G2, more than 1,000 teams, and a $33 million Series A per public reporting. Oneleet's own homepage is also the most candid in the category about where its product stops: it describes its AI as reviewing evidence against control requirements and flagging issues. That is an honest, accurate description of what the tool does, and it is worth taking at face value rather than reading past it. Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, and Oneleet at a glance. | / | Genuine strength | Shared limitation | Scadable's approach | | Vanta | Largest customer base and logo density, deepest framework and integration breadth | Ends at a flagged gap list; remediation is manual | Identifies the gap and closes it | | Drata | Near-parity breadth with Vanta, strong G2 rating, mature agentic evidence automation | Automates the paperwork around a finding, not the fix | Writes the fix, not just the report | | Secureframe | Established, credible player in the same evidence-and-monitoring tier | Same category-wide pattern: evidence collection ends at a human handoff | Closes the finding inside the same pipeline that surfaced it | | Oneleet | Consolidated platform combining AI risk review, code scanning, and pentest referral | Own copy states it flags issues rather than fixing them | Reviews, fixes, and files, not just flags | What is the one real difference? Every one of these four platforms, by its own public positioning, ends at a list. Vanta and Drata's product loops are evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and questionnaire automation, all of which conclude with an open item for someone on your team to go close, in a pull request, a config change, or a Jira ticket outside the platform. Oneleet says this about itself directly: its AI reviews evidence against control requirements and flags issues. Flagging is genuinely useful. It is also, by every one of these four vendors' own description of their own product, where the automation stops. Scadable's product loop does not stop there. It identifies what needs to change, whether that is a missing control for SOC 2, a documentation gap under ISO 27001, or an actively exploited component across a device fleet under the Cyber Resilience Act, and then it writes the control, implements the configuration change, and closes the gap. The finding does not sit in a queue waiting for a human to get to it. That is the difference stated as plainly as it can be: they identify and flag, Scadable identifies and fixes. How does Scadable make sure its evidence can be trusted? Separately from the fix-versus-flag distinction, Scadable treats evidence integrity as a standing principle, not a feature. Every document and every approval Scadable generates lives in its own object storage, hashed, versioned, and write-once-read-many locked once finalized. Every document and approval carries a verification link. Nothing in that pipeline is a Google Doc that can be quietly edited after the fact. This matters because the entire value of compliance evidence is that it holds up to scrutiny months or years later, in front of an auditor or a regulator, exactly as it looked the day it was produced. Evidence that can be silently changed after the fact does not earn that trust, so Scadable's system is built so it cannot be. Frequently asked questions. What is the main difference between Scadable and Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, or Oneleet? All four collect evidence, monitor controls, and flag gaps for a human to close. Scadable closes the gap itself, writing the control, implementing the fix, and filing the report, not just producing a list of what is still open. Is Scadable a Vanta alternative? Scadable is a fix-first alternative for teams that want findings closed, not just flagged. If your priority is broad self-serve multi-framework coverage today across a large integration catalog, Vanta may genuinely be the better fit. If your priority is getting findings remediated, that is what Scadable is built around. Is Oneleet a good product? Yes. Oneleet is a well-built, consolidated platform bundling AI risk assessment, code scanning, and pentest referral, with real traction including a G2 rating of 4.9 and over 1,000 teams. Its own homepage copy describes its AI as reviewing evidence against control requirements and flagging issues, which is the same evidence-and-flag pattern shared across this category. Do Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, and Oneleet fix compliance and security findings automatically? No. All four are evidence-collection, monitoring, and questionnaire-automation platforms. Their product loops end with a list of open findings for a human to remediate, in a ticket, a pull request, or a spreadsheet, outside the platform itself. How does Scadable keep evidence trustworthy? Every document and approval Scadable generates lives in hashed, versioned, WORM-locked storage with a verification link. Once a piece of evidence is finalized it cannot be quietly edited, which matters because compliance evidence only has value if it holds up to scrutiny. Should I switch from Vanta or Drata to Scadable? That depends on what you actually need. If broad multi-framework self-serve coverage across a large number of integrations is your priority today, Vanta or Drata may be the right tool. If your findings keep piling up faster than your team can close them, Scadable is built specifically for that gap. Last reviewed: July 12, 2026. Where Scadable fits. Scadable is not trying to out-feature Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, or Oneleet on framework breadth or integration count. Breadth is table stakes at this point, any well-resourced team can build a wide badge wall and a long integrations list, and all four of these platforms already have. The differentiation is what happens after a gap is found: Scadable writes the fix and closes it, and every piece of evidence it produces is hashed, versioned, and verifiable on its own. If what you need today is broad, self-serve, multi-framework coverage across a mature integration catalog, one of the four platforms above may honestly be the right tool for that job. If what you need is for the findings to actually get closed instead of accumulating in a queue, that is what Scadable does. Book a call to see the fix-first model against your own stack.

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