Ory is a Munich‑based company building a zero‑trust, cloud‑native identity layer on top of a widely used open source stack. Its commercial product, Ory Cloud, offers developers an intuitive console to authenticate and manage users, set and check permissions, and protect APIs, applications and data. The team emphasizes privacy, extensibility and security and has years of experience developing hardened open source identity software before commercialization. Ory maintains and benefits from a global, decentralized community of contributors and contributor workflows such as merging pull requests. The company positions its open source heritage as a strategic advantage for infrastructure software and signals intent to become a global leader in identity. Balderton notes a long engagement with the team, first speaking to them in 2019.

Total raised

$23M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Dec 2021