Vanta automates SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance with continuous monitoring, evidence collection, and AI-assisted questionnaires.
Vanta is a compliance and trust management platform built to automate the evidence-gathering and monitoring work required to earn and maintain security certifications like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Instead of manually screenshotting settings and chasing down access logs before an audit, companies connect their cloud accounts, identity provider, version control system, and HR tools to Vanta, which then continuously checks those systems against the controls required by each framework.
The company was founded in San Francisco in 2018 by Christina Cacioppo and Erik Goldman, two former Dropbox employees who built the product after going through Y Combinator. Vanta emerged during a wave of high-profile data breaches, when startups and mid-market companies were increasingly being asked by enterprise customers to prove their security posture before signing a contract.
Today Vanta serves more than 16,000 customers, from early-stage startups to large enterprises, and is used by companies such as Ramp, Cursor, Snowflake, Clay, Duolingo, GitHub, and Samsara. It has raised over 500 million dollars in venture funding and was valued at roughly 4.15 billion dollars following a 150 million dollar Series D round in 2025.
Vanta's core product continuously monitors cloud infrastructure, code repositories, HR platforms, and other business systems through more than 400 pre-built integrations, automatically flagging misconfigurations or missing controls that would otherwise be caught only during a manual audit.
The platform maps a company's existing controls to the requirements of multiple frameworks at once, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, HITRUST, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, FedRAMP, and CMMC, so teams pursuing more than one certification do not have to duplicate evidence collection.
Newer AI-assisted features include an in-product assistant that helps draft security policies, summarize risks, and auto-complete customer security questionnaires, which Vanta says can cut manual questionnaire response time significantly. It also offers a public Trust Center that lets sales and security teams share real-time compliance status with prospective customers.
Vanta does not publish its pricing publicly and instead sells through custom, quote-based annual contracts negotiated by its sales team. Third-party pricing trackers estimate that a Core-tier plan starts around 10,000 dollars per year, with Plus, Growth, Scale, and Enterprise tiers rising toward 80,000 dollars or more per year based on company size, number of frameworks, and add-ons.
Common add-ons cited by buyers include a separate vendor risk management module priced around 11,000 dollars per year and framework-specific modules. Buyers are advised to budget for external audit fees separately, since Vanta automates evidence collection but does not itself replace an independent auditor's report.
Vanta is used to automate the monitoring, evidence collection, and readiness work required to achieve and maintain security certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR.
Vanta uses custom, quote-based annual pricing that is not published publicly. Industry estimates put entry-level plans around 10,000 dollars per year, scaling toward 80,000 dollars or more for larger Enterprise deployments.
Vanta was founded in 2018 by Christina Cacioppo and Erik Goldman, both former Dropbox employees, through Y Combinator.
No. Vanta automates evidence collection and continuous monitoring, but companies still need to engage an independent, accredited auditor to issue the official SOC 2 report or ISO 27001 certification.
Vanta supports SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, HITRUST, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, FedRAMP, CMMC, and other frameworks.
No. While Vanta is popular with startups going through their first SOC 2 audit, it also serves large enterprises, and its customer base includes companies like Snowflake and Samsara.
Vanta automates organizational security and compliance monitoring for certifications like SOC 2, while Veracode is an application security testing company that scans source code and applications for vulnerabilities. The two solve different problems and are often used together.