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Valence secures the SaaS and AI applications a company runs, finding risky integrations and misconfigurations and automating fixes. Its most telling trait is who stands behind it: Microsoft's venture arm M12 led Valence's 2022 Series A, and Microsoft 365 is among the applications Valence secures, so the lead investor is also an ecosystem owner adjacent to the same work. Its proof of demand is still thin. The platform page displays testimonials from several named enterprises, and ServiceTitan's detailed case study reports revoking over 80 percent of inactive app-to-app connections within six months. The cited record's last disclosed round is that 2022 Series A.
| Description | Valence Security secures SaaS and AI environments, unifying SaaS discovery, posture management, AI governance, and identity threat detection to find and remediate risks across business applications. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 | [f2] |
| HQ | Roots in Israel | [f3] |
| Funding | $32M total | [f2] |
| Latest funding | Series A ($25M, October 2022, led by M12) | [f2] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Valence SaaS Security Platform | A platform combining SaaS discovery, SaaS security posture management (SSPM), AI governance, risk remediation, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) for business applications. |
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 Valence SaaS Security Platform discovers SaaS applications, surfaces misconfigurations and compliance gaps, governs AI usage, and detects identity threats across human and service accounts. These capabilities are mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f1]
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. | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 3/5 |
| 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. | 1/3 |
| 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. | 2/3 |
| 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. | 1/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | https://www.valencesecurity.com/platform | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f2 | TechCrunch: Valence Security Raises New Cash to Secure the SaaS App Supply Chain | press | 2026-06-24 |
| f3 | SecurityWeek: Microsoft M12 Leads $25 Million Valence Security Series A | press | 2026-06-24 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Valence: The Leader in SaaS and AI Security, Built for the Agentic Era | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s2 | Valence: SaaS Application Security Platform “Organizations leverage Valence's combined SaaS discovery, SaaS security posture management (SSPM), AI governance, risk remediation, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) capabilities to protect business-critical applications and data” | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s3 | About Valence Security: Our Story, Leadership, and Investors | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s4 | TechCrunch: Valence Security Raises New Cash to Secure the SaaS App Supply Chain “raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft's corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. The new capital brings the company's total raised to $32 million” | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s5 | SecurityWeek: Microsoft M12 Leads $25 Million Valence Security Series A “The latest funding brings the total raised by Valence Security to $32 million and provides a runway for the company to build out its SSPM (SaaS Security Posture Management) technology in a lucrative but crowded market.” | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s6 | Valence Case Study: How ServiceTitan Streamlines their SaaS Security with Valence “Through easy security policies, ServiceTitan was able to automatically revoke over 50% of inactive SaaS-to-SaaS integrations on day one, with this number increasing to over 80% within six months.” | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s7 | CTech: Cybersecurity Startup Valence Announces $25 Million Series A for Security Remediation Platform “Valence Security, which has developed a SaaS security remediation platform, announced on Wednesday its $25 million Series A round led by Microsoft's M12 venture fund.” | press | 2026-06-30 |
| s8 | DarkReading: AppSec Looms Large for RSAC 2023 Innovation Sandbox Finalists “Valence Security secures cloud workflows using SaaS security posture management (SSPM).” | press | 2026-06-30 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Valence: SaaS Application Security Platform “Organizations leverage Valence's combined SaaS discovery, SaaS security posture management (SSPM), AI governance, risk remediation, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) capabilities to protect business-critical applications and data” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s2 | Valence Case Study: How ServiceTitan Streamlines their SaaS Security with Valence “Through easy security policies, ServiceTitan was able to automatically revoke over 50% of inactive SaaS-to-SaaS integrations on day one, with this number increasing to over 80% within six months.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s3 | About Valence Security: Our Story, Leadership, and Investors “Yoni Shohet Co-Founder and CEO Shlomi Matichin Co-Founder and CTO” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s4 | Valence: Security Is Integral To Everything We Do “This comes into effect into ensuring compliance early on with industry standards such as SOC 2 Type II, but also taking the extra mile to ensure security is embedded into everything we do.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s5 | TechCrunch: Valence Security Raises New Cash to Secure the SaaS App Supply Chain “A two-time entrepreneur, Shohet previously co-launched SCADAfence, an industrial Internet of Things security startup.” | press | 2026-07-08 |
| s6 | SecurityWeek: Microsoft M12 Leads $25 Million Valence Security Series A “Valence Security has closed a $25 million Series A funding round led by Microsoft's M12 venture fund. The latest funding brings the total raised by Valence Security to $32 million” | press | 2026-07-08 |
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