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Drata Turned the Audit Scramble Into an Always-On Machine - Then Went After the Sales Cycle
The founders met compliance as a recurring evidence hunt. Five years later, Drata had crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and was selling a bigger idea: make proof of trust useful every day, not just during an audit.
Al Yang Turned the Dreaded Security Questionnaire Into a $250 Million Exit
A former M&A banker found a costly ritual hiding in every enterprise sale. Five years, more than 1,000 customers and one acquisition later, his larger bet is that trust should move at software speed.
Delve
Delve is a San Francisco AI startup that automates regulatory compliance. Its AI agents collect evidence, scan code and infrastructure, autofill security questionnaires, and prepare audits for frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and FedRAMP - turning a process that traditionally takes months into days. Founded in 2023 by MIT students Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar, the company raised a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025 at a reported $300M valuation, and says it serves more than 1,500 fast-growing companies.
Christina Cacioppo
Christina Cacioppo is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the agentic trust management platform that has become the default infrastructure for security compliance among modern tech companies. After stints at Union Square Ventures and Dropbox Paper, she built Vanta from a spreadsheet prototype into a $4.15 billion company serving 12,000+ organizations across 58 countries, raising $504 million in total funding. She is one of America's self-made female billionaires, known for applying rigorous first-principles thinking to the usually-dull world of corporate security.
Vanta
Vanta is the trust management platform that automates security and compliance for more than 16,000 companies - turning SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and dozens of other frameworks from a months-long PDF marathon into something a startup can pass before lunch.