Oso provides developer tooling—an open-source library and a cloud product—to simplify adding authorization to applications. The company positions authorization as a $25 billion market and runs an educational "Authorization Academy" to teach developers domain concepts. Its open-source product has been downloaded millions of times, and Oso Cloud, launched last year, reports ARR growing 20% month over month. Oso's go-to-market is product-led and inbound: paid customers have converted from the free tier without outbound sales or dedicated salespeople to date. The startup has remained lean with 13 employees but plans to hire more this year using the new capital. CEO Graham Neray says the company aims to help organizations that lack the resources of large companies to build reliable authorization systems. Oso provides an open-source library that helps developers build application authorization, offering pre-built integrations, guides and an underlying policy language. The company says its tools can speed up authorization roadmaps by up to 4x and aims to abstract away much of the authorization complexity developers typically implement manually. Oso is currently focused on building a community of users around the open-source project while planning a commercial product layered on top, though the go-to-market model is still being determined. The startup launched in 2018 and is led by co-founders and CEO Graham Neray and CTO Sam Scott. As of the article it had nine employees and plans to triple headcount over the next 18 months, with a hybrid model and a planned office in New York. Combined with prior funding, Oso has raised $10.9M to date.

Total raised

$23M

Funding rounds

2

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Latest activity

Jun 2023