Teleport

The Infrastructure Identity Company.

goteleport.com

HQ: Oakland, CA, USA

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Teleport is an AI infrastructure identity company that provides a platform for secure, least-privileged access to infrastructure using cryptographic identity, short-lived certificates, and zero trust. It unifies access management, identity governance, and identity security for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents.

Primary product

Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform

Founded

2015

Headquarters

Oakland, California, United States

Team size

201-500

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Cybersecurity / Identity & Access Management / Zero Trust Infrastructure Access

Offices

Oakland, California, United States

Walnut, California, United States

Business model

B2B SaaS

Enterprise software

Subscription

Funding

Stage

Series C

Total raised

$169.3M

Latest round

Series C · May 2022

Latest amount

$110M

Series C

May 2022 · Bessemer Venture Partners

$110M

Series B

Aug 2021 · Kleiner Perkins

$30M

Series A

Nov 2019 · Kleiner Perkins

$25M

Seed Round

May 2016 · Louis Beryl

$4.2M

People & investors

Leadership

Ev Kontsevoy

Cofounder, CEO

Taylor Wakefield

Co-Founder, COO

Alexander K.

Chief Technology Officer

Zac Bergquist

Director Of Engineering

Tommy Young

Director Of Recruiting

Chris Webber

VP of Product Marketing

Jim Bishopp

Director Of Engineering

Katie Beckham

Senior Director of Sales Enablement

Ben A.

Director of Product

Boris Kurktchiev

Field CTO (Frontier Innovation Plumber)

Founders

Alexander Klizhentas

Co-founder and CTO

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz

Bessemer Venture Partners

Work & culture

Public signals emphasize security, engineering velocity, zero trust, and AI-era infrastructure identity. The company’s hiring posts suggest an international, fast-moving, technical culture with remote and hybrid roles available.

Work style

Flexible

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

No official compensation bands were found in the sources reviewed. Public hiring posts show specialized engineering and field roles in the US, UK, and Ireland, which suggests market-competitive pay is likely, but this is not explicitly stated.

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly detailed in the reviewed sources; likely enterprise subscription / usage-based SaaS licensing.

Differentiators

—Short-lived certificate-based access instead of standing credentials
—Unified identity layer for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents
—Secretless access and identity governance across cloud and on-prem environments
—Identity chain observability and real-time identity behavior visibility
—Agent Trust / Beams runtime for AI agents with delegated identity and LLM proxy

Technology

rippling

6sense

maxio

figma

dbt

saml

fivetran

jira

coalfire

clearbit

linux

docker

ramp

vanta

helm

hubspot

microsoft teams

envoy gateway

pagerduty

kubernetes','mysql','google workspace','salesforce','zapier','marketo','ssh','mongodb','terraform','docusign','caddy','github','json','cockroachdb','zendesk','iam

Customers

More than 600 companies overall, including three of the top five financial services firms

AI research organizations

Cloud companies

Competitors

strongDM

Delinea

CyberArk

HashiCorp

Okta

BeyondTrust

Smallstep

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$10M-$25M ARR (Exa-estimated annual revenue: $12.65M)

Estimated monthly visits

210.5K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Signals & risks

Layoff

Jul 2022

Teleport laid off 15 employees, about 6% of then-headcount, citing macroeconomic conditions and a need to improve efficiency. The company said it remained well capitalized and still intended to hire.

Source

Other

Jun 2025

Teleport disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-49825) and required patched agent upgrades for full mitigation.

Source

Latest news

Teleport Named in the 2026 Inc. 5000 Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies

Teleport · Aug 2026

Teleport reported ranking No. 1,508 overall on the Inc. 5000 list and highlighted growth driven by adoption of its unified identity layer for infrastructure and AI agents.

Teleport Establishes Agent Trust with New Identity Security Capabilities

Teleport · Jul 2026

Teleport introduced Beams Session Summaries, Agentic Classifiers, and Risk Scoring to help enterprises govern AI agent behavior.

Teleport Named an Overall Leader in Zero Trust Platforms by KuppingerCole Analysts

Teleport · Jul 2026

KuppingerCole recognized Teleport as an Overall Leader in its 2026 Leadership Compass for Zero Trust Platforms.

Teleport Debuts Delegated Agentic Identity and LLM Proxy in Beams Public Beta, for Containing Agents in Production Infrastructure

Teleport · Jun 2026

Teleport launched Beams public beta capabilities to contain AI agents with delegated identity and LLM proxy.

Teleport Launches Identity Security Capabilities to Eliminate Hidden Infrastructure Risk

Teleport · Jul 2025

Teleport launched identity security features providing identity-chain observability and improved incident response.

Careers Contact Sales Engineering blog GitHub Homepage LinkedIn Press Pricing Team X / Twitter

SourcesHomepage About / Press Newsroom Identity Security release Agent Trust release Beams beta release Layoff post Support CVE notice

Jobs and careers at Teleport

24 jobs at Teleport

Solutions Engineering Manager

Remote

Revenue

United States (Remote); United States

1w ago

Remote

Full-time