# Grip Security

> Grip Security sells an identity-first control plane for discovering and governing enterprise SaaS and AI use, including applications, accounts, OAuth connections, tenants, and AI agents that sit outside the official IT inventory. Its pitch is practical: build the real inventory first, rank the risky relationships, then automate access reviews, offboarding, posture fixes, and incident response through the tools a security team already uses.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Founders:** Lior Yaari (CEO and Co-Founder), Idan Fast (CTO and Co-Founder), Alon Shenkler (Co-Founder and former VP R&D)
- **Team size:** Approximately 160 employees in supplied company data; LinkedIn lists a 51-200 employee range.
- **Products:** SaaS Security Control Plane, SaaS Security Posture Management, Identity Threat Detection & Response, AI Security Platform, AI Governance Assessment
- **Notable:** Raised $66 million across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds by August 2023., Reported more than 400% bookings growth ahead of its Series B., Named founders Lior Yaari, Idan Fast, and Alon Shenkler to Forbes Israel's 30 Under 30 list in 2022.

## Products & services

- **SaaS Security Control Plane** — Discovers sanctioned and shadow SaaS, maps user-to-app relationships, scores risk, and orchestrates governance and enforcement workflows.
- **SaaS Security Posture Management** — Continuously checks supported SaaS and IaaS tenants for misconfigurations, security drift, and compliance gaps, with guided and automated remediation.
- **Identity Threat Detection & Response** — Uses identity and SaaS telemetry to surface risky authentication, compromised access, dormant accounts, and suspicious behavior, then coordinate response.
- **AI Security Platform** — Inventories AI applications, agents, non-human identities, OAuth relationships, permissions, and data connections for governance and response.
- **AI Governance Assessment** — A short deployment and observation engagement that produces an inventory of AI use and prioritized governance recommendations.

## Achievements

- Raised $66 million across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds by August 2023.
- Reported more than 400% bookings growth ahead of its Series B.
- Named founders Lior Yaari, Idan Fast, and Alon Shenkler to Forbes Israel's 30 Under 30 list in 2022.
- Earned ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications.
- Reported a 4.9 out of 5 Gartner Peer Insights rating on its website.
- Named a 2026 Products That Count Product Award winner, according to the company's LinkedIn page.

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Launched Grip SSPM to add continuous misconfiguration, security-drift, and compliance monitoring to its identity-risk platform.
- **2025** — Published a SaaS Security Risks Report based on 29 million accounts, 1.7 million identities, and 23,987 applications observed in customer deployments.
- **2026-03** — Reframed its market around SaaS-plus-AI governance, emphasizing access, OAuth, integrations, and identities rather than model behavior alone.
- **2026-04** — Announced an integration with Cyera to combine identity context with sensitive-data exposure.
- **2026-07** — Published a mid-year AI exposure update reporting approximately one AI agent for every 17 identities in observed environments.
- **2026-08** — Unveiled expanded Grip AI Security Platform capabilities for applications, agents, identities, permissions, and AI governance.

## Links

- Website: https://grip.security
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grip-security
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/GripSecurity
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/gripsec/

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Last updated: 2026-08-21