Vanta crosses $300M in ARR as growth accelerates

It took us two years to grow from $10M to $100M in Annual Recurring Revenue and 15 months to reach $200M. Just nine months later, we’ve crossed $300M. Our growth rate’s increased each of the past four quarters – compounding really is the eighth wonder of the world!

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We founded Vanta to help businesses earn and prove trust. Businesses face more pressure than ever because trust leads to growth in the age of AI. 60% of the companies on the Forbes AI 50 are Vanta customers. While many started small (Cursor at four founders and two employees; Decagon three days after company incorporation; the list goes on), they’ve since grown large with Vanta: the combined market cap of Vanta’s customers on the Forbes AI 50 is $560 billion.

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AI brought a fundamental shift in how companies approach compliance and security: from point-in-time checks to continuous monitoring and verification. For years, security teams proved trust once a year during audits, and their customers accepted static PDFs. That era is over.

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AI changed the risk landscape

Businesses (including Vanta!) are implementing AI in their products and workflows to accelerate growth. This is exciting and brings new risks. Our own data shows that 70% of companies now have shadow AI – tools and models adopted without formal security review – and LLMs are 52% more likely to get a high risk designation in Vanta compared to traditional SaaS. Understanding and corralling AI tools have led companies that first came to Vanta for compliance to turn to us for third-party risk management, another product in our agentic trust platform.

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Built on the Trust Graph, powered by the Vanta Agent 

Managing today's risk landscape requires more than annual audits – it requires a continuously updated view of your entire security and compliance posture. That’s why Vanta built the industry’s first Trust Graph: a real-time map of your controls, vendor relationships, evidence, and compliance obligations, built on 400+ integrations and updated continuously as your environment changes. When you bring on a new AI tool, the Trust Graph doesn't just log it – it connects that vendor's risk profile to who has access, what data they can reach, and how it maps to your compliance frameworks. One living system that unifies internal and third-party risk.

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On top of that foundation, the Vanta Agent acts as your team's 24/7 GRC engineer, orchestrating compliance, audit, vendor risk, questionnaires, and customer commitments so your team can focus on strengthening security rather than chasing evidence.

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The results speak for themselves. Samsara used the Vanta Agent to consolidate 820 controls across 10 frameworks into a common controls framework of roughly 260 controls. Their Security Compliance Manager Elizabeth Walker described it as "truly, like having a 24/7 GRC engineer on our team." Their vendor review process now runs 50% faster. We see gains across companies of all sizes, especially enterprises like Snowflake and Samsara running their trust and security programs on Vanta.

Build with Vanta

AI is changing how teams work day-to-day, and we want Vanta's intelligence and Trust Graph to show up where they work.

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We're investing heavily in builder tools, including our MCP Server and REST API. GRC, security, and engineering teams want to understand their control status and remediate gaps; developers want to stay in flow and fix issues without leaving their tools. With Vanta's MCP Server, the Trust Graph's real-time data flows directly into the agentic tools teams are already using, from Claude to Cursor and beyond.

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When we founded Vanta, compliance was a project you worked on once a year. Now it's the foundation for business trust. As the industry shifts from GRC management to GRC engineering, we can’t wait to see what you build next.

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What’s ahead

Founders are infamous for skipping over intermediate milestones, but increasing growth quarter over quarter at $300M ARR feels a milestone worth marking. And, as a tech company, your future matters more than your past. AI is reshaping how companies build, sell, and prove they can be trusted, and this is Vanta’s moment.

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To our 16,000 customers: thank you for pushing us to build faster and better. And to the Vanta'ns who serve them every day: thank you for making this possible.

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We're one more square into the back half of the chessboard.

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