Layoff
May 2026BigID reportedly cut about 150 roles, roughly 20-23% of its workforce, as it shifted toward an AI-first operating model.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
BigID is an enterprise data security platform focused on discovering, classifying, and governing sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-prem, and AI environments. It positions itself around data security posture management (DSPM), privacy/compliance, DLP, access governance, and AI governance.
Primary product
BigID Data Security Platform (DSP) for DSPM, privacy, DLP, access governance, and AI governance
Founded
2016
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
400-500
Work style
Remote
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Sub-industry
Data security / privacy / AI governance
Offices
New York, NY 10011 (HQ)
379 W Broadway Fl 2, New York, NY
641 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10011
524 Broadway Fl 8, New York, NY 10012
Funding
Stage
Series E
Total raised
$306.1M
Latest round
Series E · Mar 2024
Latest amount
$60M
Mar 2024 · Riverwood Capital
Apr 2021 · Advent International
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-Founder & CPO
Chief Financial Officer
Work & culture
BigID describes its culture as horizontal and innovation-oriented, with emphasis on learning, cross-functional collaboration, and values of Care, Do, Try, and Shine.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public salary bands were found. The careers page advertises competitive salaries, stock options, and strong benefits.
Benefits
competitive salaries
stock options
comprehensive family benefits
professional development
LinkedIn Learning
Product & market
Pricing
Quote-based enterprise pricing tailored to the number of data sources, applications, connectors, deployment type, and support/service levels; free trial available upon inquiry.
Differentiators
- —Patented AI-based classification with 1,000s of classifiers and 100+ languages
- —Unified platform spanning DSPM, privacy, DLP, access governance, deletion, labeling, and AI governance
- —Agentless cloud-native deployment and petabyte-scale discovery
- —Deep support for cloud, SaaS, on-prem, mainframe, and AI data environments
- —Headless/API-first product design with developer tooling and app framework
- —Broad integrations across major data and security ecosystems
- —AI-specific capabilities such as Shadow AI detection, prompt/security controls, and agentic access governance
- —Cookie consent / website privacy capabilities added through the illow acquisition
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
around $100M ARR (reported March 2024)
Estimated monthly visits
73.9K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Jun 2025BigID acquired illow, adding cookie consent and website privacy capabilities to its privacy stack.
SourceLatest news
BigID blog · May 2026
BigID highlighted an integration with 7AI to bring data context into the agentic SOC, reinforcing its AI-security and access-governance messaging.
BigID · Apr 2026
BigID extended DSPM coverage to Markdown files to address security gaps in vibe-coding workflows.
PRNewswire / BigID · Apr 2026
BigID was named a Leader in Forrester Wave for sensitive data discovery and classification and announced four new AI security capabilities at RSA 2026.
BigID blog · Mar 2026
BigID open-sourced a container image crawler for supply chain security and monitoring public registries.