In today’s digital age, trust forms the foundation of every business transaction, yet establishing and proving that trust remains a significant challenge. While global companies battle persistent cyber threats and navigate complex regulatory standards, traditional compliance approaches leave many firms struggling to keep pace. Vanta, a leading AI security compliance and trust management platform, transforms this challenge into opportunity.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley with a growing European hub in Dublin and a planned London office, Vanta offers a fresh approach to compliance. The platform now serves more than 12,000 organisations across 58 countries, including Starling Bank, Duolingo, Snowflake, Atlassian, BVNK, Flo Health, and Icelandair, enabling these companies to build trust quickly and automatically.
Today, Vanta announced a $150 million Series D funding round led by Wellington Management, with participation from returning investors including Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, and Atlassian Ventures. This investment boosts Vanta’s valuation to $4.15 billion, a 69% increase from the previous year, and brings the total funding since 2021 to $504 million. Coming just one year after their Series C round, this rapid pace of financing underscores strong momentum and investor confidence.
The new funding will accelerate Vanta’s AI-based innovations and support its global expansion into regions with complex regulations, particularly the EMEA and APAC regions. With over 1,000 employees across five international offices in San Francisco, New York, Dublin, London, and Sydney, Vanta serves a diverse global customer base, with more than 25% of its customers operating outside the US.
This investment aims to transform compliance from a burden into a strategic foundation for sustainable growth. Specifically, the funds will support developing advanced AI-driven risk assessments for real-time threat prediction, enhancing platform localisation for international markets, and scaling the global team focused on delivering seamless, automated trust solutions.
The story behind Vanta
Christina Cacioppo‘s journey to founding Vanta began during her time as a product leader at Dropbox Paper. There, she experienced firsthand the tedious, costly demands of compliance and recognised an opportunity. With her dual background as an engineer and venture investor, Cacioppo realised that organisations everywhere shared this common challenge.
In 2018, she launched Vanta to address this pain point by creating a platform that automates up to 90% of compliance workflows, provides real-time security monitoring, and integrates seamlessly with over 375 business tools. Her vision is clear: transform trust from a liability that hinders innovation into a strategic, revenue-driving asset.
As Cacioppo explains: “We started Vanta with a simple belief: if we made it easier to share trust between businesses, all companies could grow faster and more securely.”
Intelligence, automation, and transparency at scale
Vanta’s approach represents a fundamental shift in compliance philosophy by deeply embedding AI-driven automation within security operations. Rather than relying on occasional, point-in-time audits, Vanta performs over 1,200 control checks hourly, continuously monitoring risk and compliance status across more than 35 global frameworks. This always-on, proactive oversight replaces guesswork with actionable intelligence, freeing security teams from the tedious paperwork required for frameworks like GDPR.
The platform integrates with more than 375 tools, automating evidence collection and simplifying setup so compliance processes fit seamlessly into any organisation’s tech ecosystem.
Vanta’s AI Agent guides teams through complex workflows, identifies inconsistencies, answers policy questions, and automates evidence verification, saving some teams up to 12 hours weekly. With AI-driven questionnaire automation, over 80% of responses to security questionnaires are drafted automatically, resulting in a 95% acceptance rate. This helps teams complete security reviews in less than half the typical time.
Vanta also redefines transparency through dynamic Trust Centres: live dashboards that allow companies to display their real-time security posture to customers, partners, and auditors. This transforms compliance from an internal mandate into an outward-facing business asset, helping organisations differentiate themselves in a trust-centric market. Customers have logged over 10 million Trust Centre views and continuously monitor 200 million resources.
The company continues to expand its capabilities. In the past year alone, Vanta has launched over 350 new features, acquired Riskey to enhance vendor security reviews, introduced Vanta for Marketplaces to help partners manage trust, and added support for compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, CMMC, and NIST 800-53.
What’s next for Vanta? Programming trust as a strategic asset
Vanta leads the way in addressing emerging needs by pioneering AI-enabled security assessments that prepare customers for new tech regulations, such as the EU AI Act and NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework. Its agile, adaptive approach positions the company as a bridge between next-generation AI innovation and responsible governance.
Looking ahead, Christina Cacioppo and Vanta aim to make trust programmable and instantly verifiable, making it a resource accessible to any stakeholder at any time. Their goal is to help companies embrace trust as a critical currency that builds customer confidence, accelerates partnerships, and opens new markets rather than fearing audits.
Vanta’s mission is clear: to power the future of AI-driven trust through relentless innovation, global reach, and an unwavering commitment to helping every organisation prove and scale trust in a dynamic world.
