Zitadel develops an open-source, cloud-native identity infrastructure platform that supports multi-tenancy, authentication, authorization, and user management for enterprises. The platform offers developer-friendly APIs and SDKs, supports protocols like SAML2 and OpenID Connect, and emphasizes data ownership, security, and flexible deployment across public and private clouds. Zitadel serves more than 150 customers across North America and Europe, spanning industries including manufacturing, finance, education, healthcare, and SaaS. The company plans to invest in improving APIs and SDKs, enhancing observability and visualization tools for site reliability engineers, and adding AI-driven threat detection and security incident management modules. The Series A funding will also be used to accelerate product development and expand the technical team. Zitadel positions itself as a developer-first solution tailored to mid-market and large enterprises seeking scalable, secure identity and permission management. ZITADEL is a developer-first, open-source, cloud-native identity management platform built primarily in Go that provides secure login, self-service, OpenID Connect, OAuth2.x, SAML2, passwordless (FIDO2), OTP, U2F, branding, and an unlimited audit trail. The product is API-first and offers easy-to-use integrations across languages and frameworks to speed time-to-market and reduce developer effort. ZITADEL emphasizes self-hosting and privacy—customers can run dedicated instances and choose the country or geopolitical region for data storage to meet strict GDPR requirements; the company is legally incorporated in Switzerland. A generous free cloud tier lets anyone create an instance in under five minutes without a credit card, and the company already serves numerous marquee enterprise customers. Planned enhancements to increase enterprise readiness include multi-tenancy, unlimited audit trails, improved self-hosting, serverless deployment support, and extensibility via WebAssembly. Financially, ZITADEL announced a $2.5M seed financing to evolve the solution, scale sales growth, and nurture its open-source community.

Total raised

$12M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Nov 2024