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Teleport sells infrastructure access built on cryptographic identity and short-lived certificates instead of shared keys and standing passwords. Its paying customers include Nasdaq, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Elastic, and a widely adopted open-source project gives the capability claims independent weight. The headline growth, nearly tripled revenue and a doubled customer base from 2020 to 2021, comes from its most recent disclosed round. That round set a valuation above 1 billion dollars, and no later financial figure appears in the reviewed sources. The co-founder who runs the company earlier built Mailgun, which Rackspace acquired. Teleport has repositioned around AI-agent identity with its Beams beta, a bet that the agent wave renews demand for the same access layer.
| Description | Teleport secures access to infrastructure by giving every user, machine, and workload a cryptographic identity and short-lived certificates instead of shared keys, passwords, or VPNs. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | [f2] |
| HQ | Oakland, California, United States | [f3] |
| Funding | $169M total | [f4] |
| Latest funding | Series C, $110M (May 2022), led by Bessemer Venture Partners | [f4] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform | An identity-aware access proxy and certificate authority that issues short-lived certificates to reach SSH servers, Kubernetes, databases, Windows desktops, and web apps with RBAC and session audit. |
| Teleport Beams | Runs each AI agent in an isolated Firecracker micro-VM with a built-in short-lived identity and per-agent access policy to infrastructure and inference services, with audited egress. |
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. |
The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform issues short-lived certificates and enforces role-based access for human and machine identities reaching servers, Kubernetes, databases, and web apps, then audits each session, and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f1]
AI Defense Matrix
| Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain. | ||||||
| AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices. | ||||||
| AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD. | ||||||
| AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic. | ||||||
| AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes. | ||||||
| Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning. | ||||||
| Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history. | ||||||
| AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools. |
Teleport Beams runs each AI agent in an isolated Firecracker micro-VM with policy-controlled egress and issues each beam a short-lived scoped identity, so agents reach infrastructure and inference endpoints without static secrets, and is mapped to the AI 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. | 4/5 |
| 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. | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 3/5 |
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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. | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 2/3 |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 3/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | Teleport GitHub repository (gravitational/teleport) | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f2 | Gartner Peer Insights: Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform company details | research | 2026-06-30 |
| f3 | About Teleport | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f4 | PR Newswire: Teleport Raises $110 Million Series C at $1.1 Billion Valuation | press | 2026-06-24 |
| f5 | Teleport Beams | official | 2026-06-24 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Teleport homepage | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s2 | Teleport GitHub repository (gravitational/teleport) “Protect access to servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, Windows desktops, web applications, and cloud APIs without long-lived keys or passwords.” | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s3 | About Teleport “Teleport is headquartered in Oakland, California but we have employees all over the world.” | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s4 | PR Newswire: Teleport Raises $110 Million Series C at $1.1 Billion Valuation “This investment brings Teleport's total funding raised to $169 million at a current valuation of $1.1 billion, and comes after the company nearly tripled its revenue and doubled its customer base from 2020 to 2021.” | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s5 | GlobeNewswire: Gravitational Rebrands to Teleport “Gravitational, a pioneer in environment-free computing, announced today that the company has changed its name to Teleport, effective immediately.” | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s6 | SiliconANGLE: Teleport raises $110M to simplify infrastructure access “Its customers include big names such as Doordash Inc., Elastic N.V., Nasdaq Inc. and Snowflake Inc.” | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s7 | Teleport Beams “Beams runs each agent in an isolated Firecracker VM with built-in identity.” | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s8 | The New Stack: How Teleport's Leader Transitioned from Engineer to CEO “Ev Kontsevoy loves talking to other engineers, but after he sold his first startup he knew he needed to learn more about leadership before starting another company. An earlier startup, Mailgun, which was required by Rackspace in 2010, proved to be a learned experience.” | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s9 | NVD CVE-2025-49825: Teleport Community Edition remote authentication bypass “Teleport provides connectivity, authentication, access controls and audit for infrastructure. Community Edition versions before and including 17.5.1 are vulnerable to remote authentication bypass. At time of posting, there is no available open-source patch.” | regulatory | 2026-06-30 |
| s10 | Gartner Peer Insights: Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform, 4.6 rating across 41 ratings in the Privileged Access Management market “Teleport is a strong platform for infrastructure and identity access management across cloud and on-prem environments. It improved our security posture by replacing long-lived credentials with short-lived, certificate-based access and enforcing MFA consistently across SSH, RDP and database access.” | research | 2026-06-30 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Teleport homepage (Unified Identity) “One unified identity model establishes trusted interactions between humans, machines, and AI.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s2 | Teleport GitHub repository (gravitational/teleport) “Teleport works with SSH, Kubernetes, databases, RDP, cloud consoles, internal web services, Git repositories, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s3 | About Teleport “Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure, improving engineering velocity and resiliency of critical infrastructure against human factors and/or compromise.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s4 | Teleport pricing (Get a Custom Quote) “Teleport pricing is usage-based, for the products licensed within the Teleport” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s5 | Teleport Beams “Beams runs each agent in an isolated Firecracker VM with built-in identity.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s6 | SiliconANGLE: Teleport raises 110M to simplify infrastructure access “Its customers include big names such as Doordash Inc., Elastic N.V., Nasdaq Inc. and Snowflake Inc.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s7 | PR Newswire: Teleport Raises 110 Million Series C at 1.1 Billion Valuation “This investment brings Teleport's total funding raised to $169 million at a current valuation of $1.1 billion, and comes after the company nearly tripled its revenue and doubled its customer base from 2020 to 2021.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s8 | The New Stack: How Teleport's Leader Transitioned from Engineer to CEO “An earlier startup, Mailgun, which was required by Rackspace in 2010, proved to be a learned experience, he said.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s9 | NVD CVE-2025-49825: Teleport Community Edition remote authentication bypass “Community Edition versions before and including 17.5.1 are vulnerable to remote authentication bypass. At time of posting, there is no available open-source patch.” | regulatory | 2026-07-08 |
| s10 | Gartner Peer Insights: Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform in the Privileged Access Management market “Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure.” | research | 2026-07-08 |
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