Smallstep develops open-source tooling that automates X.509 and SSH certificate management as a foundation for practical zero trust. The company has spent years building a sizable open-source community with millions of downloads and hundreds of independent contributions. Its products help DevOps teams identify machines and users, issue credentials, encrypt data and communications, and enforce security policy across containers, Kubernetes, cloud and on-prem environments. Smallstep announced $26 million in total funding to accelerate product development and expand its open-source ecosystem. The company plans to invest the proceeds in R&D and community growth to bring new features and expertise to infrastructure security. Smallstep’s team includes engineers with backgrounds at Sauce Labs, Minted, Kenna Security (Cisco), Let’s Encrypt (ISRG), Pivotal and Dell EMC, and the company is based in San Francisco.

Total raised

$26M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Apr 2022