Styra commercializes Open Policy Agent (OPA), an open-source policy engine for authorization across Kubernetes, containerized and other cloud-native environments. Its core product packages OPA into tools that help organizations manage and apply authorization policies as code and to scale or customize OPA when internal engineering resources are limited. OPA has recorded about 75 million downloads and is adding roughly 1 million downloads weekly, with adopters including Netflix, Capital One, Atlassian and Pinterest. Styra counts customers such as Capital One, Zalando and the European Patent Office. The company plans to use new funding to continue evolving its product—creating more efficient ways to apply authorization policies as code—and to bring in more partners to expand coverage. CEO Bill Mann emphasized developers' preference for open source as a key adoption driver for the technology. Styra combines open source and commercial products to help enterprises define, enforce, and validate security across Kubernetes environments. Its offerings center on the Open Policy Agent (OPA) open source project and a commercial Declarative Authorization Service. Led by CEO Bill Mann, the company targets DevOps and security teams to mitigate risk, reduce human error, and accelerate application development. Styra serves hundreds of enterprise users, including Netflix, CapitalOne, and Pinterest. In December 2019 the company raised $14M in a Series A round led by Accel, with participation from previous investors Unusual Ventures and A.Capital. The company said it will use the proceeds to expand the OPA open source community and to enhance its enterprise security and compliance solutions for Kubernetes environments.

Total raised

$54M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

May 2021