What is Drata?
Continuous trust-management platform for compliance automation, GRC, trust centers, and security reviews.
- Category
- Trust management / compliance automation
- Headquarters
- San Diego, CA / San Francisco, CA
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- ~800-1,000
- Total funding
- ~$328M disclosed
- Valuation or Status
- Private; $2B valuation reported in 2022
What is Drata?
Drata is a continuous trust platform that helps companies automate evidence collection, monitor controls, manage compliance frameworks, run trust centers, and streamline security reviews.
Drata is a continuous trust platform that helps companies automate evidence collection, monitor controls, manage compliance frameworks, run trust centers, and streamline security reviews. Drata says it serves 8,500+ global customers and supports 30+ frameworks, with offices in San Francisco, New York, San Diego, London, and Sydney.
The company began with compliance automation and expanded into enterprise GRC, Trust Center workflows, AI questionnaire assistance, TPRM, and SafeBase-powered trust sharing. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; the most durable scale signals are the customer counts, funding, product breadth, and current hiring/office footprint disclosed in public sources.
For sellers, Drata should be treated as a trust management / compliance automation buyer with specialized functional stakeholders. The strongest entry points are tied to measurable workflow impact, compliance or security fit, and integrations with the systems or operating model described in this profile.
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What does Drata offer?
Drata offers Agentic Platform, Enterprise GRC, Compliance Automation, Trust Center, AI Questionnaire Assistance and related platform capabilities.
- Agentic Platform· Product
- Enterprise GRC· Product
- Compliance Automation· Product
- Trust Center· Product
- AI Questionnaire Assistance· Product
- Third-Party Risk Management· Product
- Drata AI· Product
- Integrations· Product
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How does Drata make money?
Drata does not publish fixed list prices. Pricing is quote-based and varies by frameworks, employee count, integrations, trust center needs, questionnaire automation, TPRM, and enterprise support.
Drata does not publish fixed list prices. Pricing is quote-based and varies by frameworks, employee count, integrations, trust center needs, questionnaire automation, TPRM, and enterprise support.
Growth is driven by customers expanding from an initial use case into adjacent workflows, more volume, more geographies, deeper integrations, and more governance. Where public price points exist, this profile names them; where pricing is quote-based, it states that clearly instead of inventing a contract value.
The sales motion is therefore consultative. Procurement usually evaluates security, data handling, implementation effort, and ROI, while the operating team evaluates whether the product reduces manual work, risk, latency, or revenue friction.
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Who leads Drata?
Drata is led by Adam Markowitz with Daniel Marashlian as a key technical/product leader.
- Adam MarkowitzCo-founder and CEOCo-founder - since 2020Former Portfolium founder and public CEO.
- Daniel MarashlianCo-founder and CTOCo-founder - since 2020Technical co-founder.
- Troy MarkowitzCo-founder and COOCo-founder - since 2020Operations co-founder.
- Drata trust leadershipSecurity/compliance leadershipCurrentSupports enterprise trust and compliance operations.
How do you contact Drata's leadership?
Use published company channels first. Personal leadership addresses listed here are clearly labeled as format-following where they are not published or verified.
format-following, not verified: first@drata.comSources:Drata aboutDrata customers
How much funding has Drata raised?
Drata has raised ~$328M disclosed; latest status: Private; $2B valuation reported in 2022.
Major disclosed financing events: Jan 2021: Series A - $25M - Early institutional round after product launch. Nov 2021: Series B - $100M - Growth round that made Drata a compliance-automation unicorn. Dec 2022: Series C - $200M at $2B valuation - Led by ICONIQ Growth and GGV, bringing disclosed funding to about $328M.
The latest disclosed financing signal is $200M Series C (Dec 2022). The investor group includes ICONIQ Growth / GGV, and the company is Private; $2B valuation reported in 2022. If a valuation, profitability metric, or round detail is not public, this profile marks it as undisclosed.
For sales planning, funding matters because it changes budget availability and procurement maturity. Late-stage or heavily funded buyers usually have stronger budgets but more formal reviews, while earlier-stage buyers may move faster but require a clearer connection to near-term execution.
How did Drata get here?
Drata's path runs from its 2020 founding through financing, product expansion, and current June 2026 scale.
- 2020FoundedAdam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz launch Drata.
- 2021Series A and BDrata scales rapidly and reaches unicorn status.
- 2022Series CDrata raises $200M at a reported $2B valuation.
- 2024SafeBase acquisitionDrata expands trust-center and security-review capabilities through SafeBase.
- 20268,500+ customersDrata markets 8,500+ global customers and broad trust-management products.
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Who are Drata's competitors?
Drata competes with companies that solve adjacent trust management / compliance automation workflows, though positioning differs by customer segment, product depth, and go-to-market motion.
- VantaAgentic trust platform and compliance automation competitor.
- SecureframeSecurity compliance automation platform.
- HyperproofEnterprise compliance operations and GRC platform.
- SprintoCompliance automation platform with global SMB/mid-market focus.
- OneTrustEnterprise trust, privacy, risk, and compliance suite.
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