What is Vanta?
Agentic trust-management platform for security compliance, GRC, vendor risk, and trust centers.
- Category
- Trust management / compliance automation
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- ~1,000+
- Total funding
- >$500M disclosed
- Valuation or Status
- Private; $4.15B valuation reported in July 2025
What is Vanta?
Vanta automates trust workflows for security compliance, continuous GRC, vendor risk management, questionnaire automation, access review, trust centers, and audit evidence.
Vanta automates trust workflows for security compliance, continuous GRC, vendor risk management, questionnaire automation, access review, trust centers, and audit evidence. Vanta reported 8,000 customers at its 2024 Series C, later raised a July 2025 Series D at a $4.15 billion valuation, and sells to startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises.
The product has expanded from SOC 2 automation into a broader agentic trust platform with AI features, risk, TPRM, FedRAMP-related workflows, and enterprise GRC. 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, Vanta 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.
What does Vanta offer?
Vanta offers Compliance, Continuous GRC, Risk Management, Third Party Risk Management, Questionnaire Automation and related platform capabilities.
- Compliance· Product
- Continuous GRC· Product
- Risk Management· Product
- Third Party Risk Management· Product
- Questionnaire Automation· Product
- Trust Center· Product
- Vanta AI· Product
- Vanta API· Product
How does Vanta make money?
Vanta publishes plan names but not dollar prices. Plans include Essentials, Plus, Professional, Pro, and Enterprise; customers request personalized pricing, with costs driven by frameworks, modules, company size, integrations, questionnaires, risk, and enterprise controls.
Vanta publishes plan names but not dollar prices. Plans include Essentials, Plus, Professional, Pro, and Enterprise; customers request personalized pricing, with costs driven by frameworks, modules, company size, integrations, questionnaires, risk, and enterprise controls.
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.
Who leads Vanta?
Vanta is led by Christina Cacioppo with Product/engineering leadership as a key technical/product leader.
- Christina CacioppoFounder and CEOFounder - since 2018Public CEO and product-focused founder.
- Jeremy EplingChief Product OfficerCurrentProduct executive associated with platform expansion.
- David EcksteinChief Financial OfficerCurrentFinance leader for late-stage scaling.
- Vanta security and trust leadershipSecurity/GRC leadersCurrentOwns customer trust, compliance, and enterprise controls.
How do you contact Vanta'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@vanta.comHow much funding has Vanta raised?
Vanta has raised >$500M disclosed; latest status: Private; $4.15B valuation reported in July 2025.
Major disclosed financing events: May 2021: Series A - $50M - Sequoia led the Series A at a reported $500M valuation. Jun 2022: Series B - $110M - Round valued Vanta at about $1.6B. Oct 2022: Series B extension - $40M - Extension brought total raised then to about $203M. Jul 2024: Series C - $150M - Sequoia-led round valued Vanta around $2.45B. Jul 2025: Series D - $150M - Wellington-led round valued Vanta at about $4.15B.
The latest disclosed financing signal is $150M Series D (Jul 2025). The investor group includes Wellington / Sequoia, and the company is Private; $4.15B valuation reported in July 2025. 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 Vanta get here?
Vanta's path runs from its 2018 founding through financing, product expansion, and current June 2026 scale.
- 2018FoundedChristina Cacioppo founds Vanta.
- 2021Series AVanta raises $50M from Sequoia.
- 2022Unicorn Series BVanta reaches about $1.6B valuation.
- 2024Series CVanta raises $150M at about $2.45B and reports 8,000 customers.
- 2025Series DVanta raises $150M at about $4.15B.
- 2026Agentic trust platformVanta markets AI and agentic trust workflows across plans.
Who are Vanta's competitors?
Vanta competes with companies that solve adjacent trust management / compliance automation workflows, though positioning differs by customer segment, product depth, and go-to-market motion.
- DrataTrust-management and compliance automation platform with SafeBase trust centers.
- SecureframeSecurity compliance automation for startups and mid-market teams.
- SprintoCompliance automation with global mid-market focus.
- HyperproofEnterprise GRC and compliance operations platform.
- OneTrustLarge enterprise trust, privacy, risk, and compliance platform.
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