Layoff
Sep 2024Drata laid off approximately 40 employees, reported as about 9% of its workforce, citing a move toward sustainable growth.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Drata is a privately held SaaS company providing an AI-native continuous trust-management platform. It helps organizations automate compliance and audit readiness, manage governance/risk/security controls, collect evidence continuously, answer security reviews, publish trust centers, and govern AI agents. Drata reports 8,000–8,500+ customers globally as of 2026.
Primary product
Drata Agentic Trust Management Platform: automated compliance and GRC, continuous control monitoring and evidence collection, risk management, security reviews/questionnaires, trust centers, and AI-agent governance.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
500–1,000; third-party estimates range from approximately 513 to 675 in 2026
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software development / enterprise software
Sub-industry
Security, compliance automation, governance-risk-compliance (GRC), trust management
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States — 634 2nd Street
New York, New York, United States — 368 9th Avenue
San Diego, California, United States — 4365 Executive Drive
London, United Kingdom — 1 Primrose Street
Sydney, Australia — 64 York Street
Business model
B2B SaaS subscription
Enterprise compliance and GRC platform
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Adam Aarons
Work & culture
Drata describes its culture around engineering trust, integrity, ownership, high standards, perspective-taking, and purposeful automation. Current Bay Area engineering postings describe a thoughtful hybrid model with in-office collaboration Tuesday–Thursday and flexible Mondays/Fridays; some roles are remote by geography or function.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public postings emphasize total rewards and competitive compensation, but no company-wide compensation bands were established from the available evidence. Benefits and occasional role-specific salary ranges are the clearest public compensation signals.
Benefits
Up to 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
Wellness benefits and healthcare concierge
401(k)
Company-paid life and disability insurance
HSA/FSA/DCFSA benefits
Paid parental leave after six months
Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits
Flexible vacation policy and paid holidays
Professional and personal development stipends
Home-office support for eligible remote work
Product & market
Pricing
Enterprise SaaS subscription; public evidence indicates packaging by compliance/GRC scope, frameworks, users, integrations, and modules, with pricing generally quote-based rather than openly published. Drata integrations are included with a Drata SaaS subscription.
Differentiators
- —Continuous rather than point-in-time control monitoring and evidence collection
- —Broad compliance-framework and enterprise GRC coverage
- —Unified compliance, risk, assurance, security reviews, and trust-center workflows
- —AI-native/agentic automation and emerging AI-agent governance
- —Integration ecosystem for automated evidence collection
- —Enterprise focus and reported strength in enterprise adoption
- —SafeBase trust-center and security-review capabilities integrated into the platform
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $100M–$150M annual revenue/ARR range; Drata said it was nearing $100M ARR in February 2025, while third-party estimates place annual revenue around $100M or $100M–$150M in 2026.
Signals & risks
Latest news
Channel Life · Aug 2026
Coverage of Drata’s discover-monitor-govern approach for AI agents, including inventory, policy enforcement, drift monitoring, and audit evidence.
Business Wire / FinancialContent · Aug 2026
Drata announced limited availability of AI Agent Governance, initially focused on Anthropic, with OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, and AWS Bedrock coverage in development.
YipitData · May 2026
YipitData’s software-spend signals characterize Drata as stronger in enterprise adoption and spend while Vanta leads mid-market scale; it reports Drata headcount around 707 and declining.
Drata / LinkedIn · Feb 2026
Drata reported 8,000+ customers in 80+ countries, 190% enterprise customer growth, and 60% year-over-year revenue growth.
Open Positions
54 jobs at Drata
Staff Software Engineer, Monetization Platform
Remote
Engineering
Hybrid - San Francisco
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Remote
Full-time