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Obsidian helped define SaaS security posture management, but that category position is the copyable part of its business. Its harder-to-match asset is the threat intelligence it accumulates defending large SaaS estates, now extended across integrations and AI agents through a shared knowledge graph. New this cycle: real attestations (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, IRAP), an AI-agent governance line, and a modular free-tier motion that opens a lighter path in beside enterprise sales. The unresolved question is whether that network compounds faster than the identity, cloud, and posture platforms next to the same buyer can fold SaaS and AI discovery into a bundle, with no funding disclosed since the 2022 Series C to fuel the race.
| Description | Obsidian Security runs a platform for SaaS security posture management and AI security, giving enterprises visibility, threat detection, and governance across their SaaS applications, identities, data, and AI agents. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | [f2] |
| HQ | Palo Alto, California, United States | [f3] |
| Funding | $119.5M total | [f4] |
| Latest funding | Series C ($90M, April 2022) | [f4] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Obsidian SSPM | SaaS security posture management that discovers SaaS apps and the identities using them, detects account compromise and insider threats across and within apps, and flags misconfigurations. |
| Obsidian AI Security | AI security that discovers shadow AI tools through browser-level visibility, monitors data shared with GenAI prompts, and governs autonomous AI agents acting through OAuth tokens and API keys. |
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware. | |||||
| Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices. | |||||
| Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths. | |||||
| Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks. | |||||
| Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data. |
Obsidian SSPM discovers SaaS applications and the identities using them, detects account compromise and insider threats, and flags misconfigurations for remediation. This SaaS posture product defends conventional application, identity, and data assets and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f5]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. | 3/5 |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 4/5 |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 2/5 |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 4/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 2/5 |
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| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 2/3 |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 2/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 3/3 |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 2/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | https://www.obsidiansecurity.com/company | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f2 | https://www.obsidiansecurity.com/news/obsidian-security-raises-90-million-series-c-round | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f3 | https://obsidiansecurity.com/ | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f4 | The SaaS News: Obsidian Security Raises $90 Million in Series C | press | 2026-06-24 |
| f5 | MSSP Alert: SaaS Security and Posture Management Company Obsidian Security Raises $90M | press | 2026-06-24 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Obsidian Security: End-to-End AI and SaaS Security for Enterprises | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s2 | Obsidian Security: Who We Are | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s3 | Obsidian Security: AI Security Across the Enterprise “With the Obsidian browser extension, we’ve got a lot of insight of how users are interacting with things like generative AI SaaS solutions out there, potentially going after what documents may be being uploaded.” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s4 | Obsidian Security Raises $90 Million Series C Round to Cement its Leadership in SaaS Security | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s5 | MSSP Alert: SaaS Security and Posture Management Company Obsidian Security Raises $90M | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s6 | The SaaS News: Obsidian Security Raises $90 Million in Series C “Founded in 2017 by industry experts from Carbon Black and Cylance including Ben Johnson, Glenn Chisholm, and Matt Wolff.” | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s7 | SiliconANGLE: Obsidian Security raises $90M to secure companies' software-as-a-service applications “Overall, the company has raised $119.5 million since launching in 2017.” | press | 2026-07-02 |
| s8 | Help Net Security: Obsidian Security raises $90 million to help businesses reduce SaaS security risk “A leader in the SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) category coined by Gartner, Obsidian was founded in 2017” | press | 2026-06-30 |
| s9 | Help Net Security: Obsidian Security unveils end-to-end SaaS supply chain security to stop integration-led breaches “Obsidian Security is launching a new solution that secures the SaaS supply chain across its full lifecycle, bringing together integration risk visibility, proactive prevention, early breach detection and impact forensics, all in a single, unified platform.” | press | 2026-07-02 |
| s10 | Obsidian Security: Enterprise Readiness and SaaS Security “Supports key compliance frameworks in-product, backed by SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and IRAP attestations or certifications. ISO 42001 coming soon.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s11 | Obsidian Security Trust Center (SafeBase) “Use this Trust Center to learn about our security posture and request access to our security documentation.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s12 | Obsidian Security: Flexible SaaS Security Pricing “Start free. Expand into the modules your team needs, across AI and SaaS security. No bloated bundles.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s13 | Obsidian Security: Who We Are “Hasan Imam Chief Executive Officer” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Obsidian Security: End-to-End AI and SaaS Security for Enterprises “The threat signals we surface defending them reach every customer in our network before they become incidents.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s2 | Obsidian Security: Who We Are “Be the trust layer for enterprise AI adoption” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s3 | Obsidian Security: SaaS Security Posture Management “Reduce risky integrations, detect third-party threats early, and contain the blast radius before a vendor breach becomes your breach.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s4 | Obsidian Security: AI Security Across the Enterprise “Enforce least privilege across every AI agent and human identity by continuously assessing and right-sizing the permissions agents actually need versus what they hold.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s5 | Obsidian Security: Enterprise Readiness and SaaS Security “Supports key compliance frameworks in-product, backed by SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and IRAP attestations or certifications. ISO 42001 coming soon.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s6 | Obsidian Security: Flexible SaaS Security Pricing “Start free. Expand into the modules your team needs, across AI and SaaS security. No bloated bundles.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s7 | Obsidian Security Raises $90 Million Series C Round | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s8 | The SaaS News: Obsidian Security Raises $90 Million in Series C “Founded in 2017 by industry experts from Carbon Black and Cylance including Ben Johnson, Glenn Chisholm, and Matt Wolff.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s9 | SiliconANGLE: Obsidian Security raises $90M to secure companies' software-as-a-service applications “Snowflake Inc. and Figma Inc., the interface design startup valued at $10 billion, are among the companies that rely on Obsidian to protect their SaaS environments.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s10 | MSSP Alert: SaaS Security and Posture Management Company Obsidian Security Raises $90M “Organizations use Obsidian's platform to secure more than 4 million unique accounts around the world. Furthermore, Obsidian provides a partner program that lets MSSPs, MSPs and VARs integrate its platform into their offerings.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s11 | Help Net Security: Obsidian Security unveils end-to-end SaaS supply chain security “Powered by the Obsidian Knowledge Graph and threat intelligence drawn from proprietary research and real-world incident response across our customer base, Obsidian extends its network effects to SaaS integrations” | press | 2026-07-08 |
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