Vanta
Founded 2018; the largest compliance-automation platform by valuation/headline. $150M Series C Jul-2024 ($2.45B val; Sequoia + Atlassian Ventures + CrowdStrike Falcon Fund). Vanta AI launched 2024 — auto-evidence-collection, control mapping, vendor-review.
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At a glance
- Type
- Compliance automation platform with AI agent vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2018 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Quote-based tiers (Essentials, Plus, Professional, Enterprise); no list prices published vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- SDK languages
- java, rest, typescript vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: cross-framework compliance automation + AI control mapping
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Sequoia + Atlassian + CrowdStrike-backed; >$300M ARR; broadest customer base; AI auto-evidence is widely adopted.
Cons
Compliance ICP shared with Drata; differentiation increasingly about ecosystem + Trust Center vs raw automation.
Claims & capabilities
$150M Series C Jul-2024 ($2.45B val); 8000+ customers; >$300M ARR reported; AI launched 2024
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- Managed-only — SaaS
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- yes — Vanta hosted MCP server (the earlier OSS VantaInc/vanta-mcp-server is archived) plus an official Claude Code plugin
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (24 cited facts, 1 third-party)
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- What it is Compliance automation platform with AI agent vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Founded 2018; the largest compliance-automation platform by valuation/headline. $150M Se… vendor
- Claims / benefits $150M Series C Jul-2024 ($2.45B val); 8000+ customers; >$300M ARR reported; AI launched … vendor
- Created 2018 (founded) vendor
- Funding $150M Series C Jul-2024 ($2.45B val; Sequoia + Atlassian Ventures) vendor
- Customers / scale 8000+ customers including Modern Treasury, Atlassian, Quora vendor
- Pricing Quote-based tiers (Essentials, Plus, Professional, Enterprise); no list prices published vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001; HIPAA vendor
- Deployment Managed-only — SaaS vendor
- HQ San Francisco vendor
- Founders / pedigree Christina Cacioppo (CEO; ex-Dropbox + USV) vendor
- MCP support yes — Vanta hosted MCP server (the earlier OSS VantaInc/vanta-mcp-server is archived) pl… repo
- Optimised for cross-framework compliance automation + AI control mapping vendor
- Pros Sequoia + Atlassian + CrowdStrike-backed; >$300M ARR; broadest customer base; AI auto-ev… vendor
- Cons Compliance ICP shared with Drata; differentiation increasingly about ecosystem + Trust C… vendor
- Project & sources www.vanta.com/ vendor
- adoption-accelerator yc-w18 third-party
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications ccpa,fedramp,gdpr,iso27001,iso27017,iso27018,iso27701,iso42001,pci-dss,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages java,rest,typescript vendor
- protocol-support mcp-server vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-28
- Pricing “Starter $8k+/year; Enterprise quote” → “Quote-based tiers (Essentials, Plus, Professional, Enterprise); no list prices published” source
- Deployment “SaaS” → “Managed-only — SaaS” source
- MCP support “not applicable — wrong section” → “yes — Vanta hosted MCP server (the earlier OSS VantaInc/vanta-mcp-server is archived) plus an official Claude Code plugin” source