# Cyber Company Profiles: Drata

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## At a Glance

- Website: [drata.com](https://drata.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/drata
- Type: Governance Risk Compliance
- Also known as: Drata Inc.
- Market readiness: Established (28/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2020
- Last updated: 2026-08-18

## Executive Summary

Drata and Vanta now lead different halves of the same market. Drata sells compliance and trust software to security and governance teams, and YipitData's spend panel tracks more than 1,300 companies. In February 2026 that panel put Drata ahead on enterprise adoption, 45 observed customers against Vanta's 31, while Vanta led the mid-market at 138 against Drata's 77. The FedRAMP Marketplace has listed Drata's platform as certified since December 2025, and a rival has to earn that federal credential from the government rather than buy it. Drata started in 2020 automating SOC 2 audit evidence for startups, and the segment where the panel now puts it ahead is one OneTrust and other established vendors already sell to.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Drata sells a trust management platform that keeps a company continuously ready for security audits, tracks its internal and third-party risk in one place, and runs a hosted trust center where its customers and prospects review its security posture. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2020 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | San Francisco, CA | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Last named round, Series C, $200M, December 2022, co-led by ICONIQ Growth and GGV Capital at a $2B valuation | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Compliance Automation | Collects audit evidence automatically and monitors security controls across a customer's stack so the customer stays ready for recurring audits. |
| Enterprise GRC | Holds controls, risks, policies and evidence in one system and maps a control once so it can count toward several frameworks. |
| Trust Center | Hosted portal, built on the SafeBase product Drata acquired, where a customer's prospects review its security posture and request documents. |
| AI Questionnaire Assistance | Drafts answers to inbound security questionnaires from the customer's own approved trust content. |
| Third-Party Risk Management | Assesses vendors from standardised criteria, gathers their documents and chases follow-ups so vendor reviews run in one place. |
| AI Agent Governance | Discovers AI agents in an environment, checks their actions against policy and logs decisions. Drata offers it in limited availability, not general release. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applications | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
| Devices | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
| Users | ✓ |  |  |  |  |

Drata Compliance Automation reads security configurations and access permissions from a customer's SaaS applications, cloud providers and employee devices to report how each control stands against a framework, and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (28/40)**

Analyzed 2026-08-18. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 4/5 | Drata names a specific buyer and a pain the public record sizes. Sacra records that startups seeking SOC 2 before the automation cohort faced six to twelve month in-person audits costing $50-100K upfront, Markowitz told TechCrunch that a security and compliance program is a requirement for selling to larger companies, and YipitData describes security reviews as standardised across software procurement. Drata names the buying roles by title in its own customer stories. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 | Capability detail is concrete and comes from Drata. Sacra records 170 or more integrations and describes the platform reading configurations and access permissions from software-as-a-service applications, cloud providers and employee devices, and the product pages set out each line. The two announcement-derived write-ups in the reviewed record restate what Drata published, and no cited source tests the platform independently. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | Buyer spending in this category is measured, not asserted. YipitData's panel of 1,300 or more companies recorded Drata's mid-market spend at about $123K in February 2026, up roughly 45% year over year, and Sacra separately estimated 61% company revenue growth in 2024, to $95 million from $59 million. The enabler is dated: Sacra places the automation cohort's founding window at 2016 to 2020, when procurement began demanding audited security evidence at scale. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Adam Markowitz took his previous company, Portfolium, to acquisition by Instructure in 2019, and the three founders have run Drata together since 2020, which the SEC Form D confirms by listing all of them as executive officers. That prior build was an education technology platform, so the reviewed record shows no earlier build or exit in security or compliance and no sustained publication record. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 | Named references are plural and outside research corroborates the adoption. Drata publishes customer stories for Okta, Asana, Brex and Instacart, its trust center names OpenAI, LinkedIn, Wiz and T-Mobile among those that have reviewed it, and YipitData independently observed 45 enterprise and 77 mid-market Drata customers in February 2026. The revenue figures behind the scale claim are Drata's own and a research estimate rather than reported results, so a reader can check the customer names but not the revenue. \[[s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | The raise is proportional to the motion and the shipping is visible, but efficiency is unconfirmed. TechCrunch records roughly $128 million raised before a $200 million Series C in December 2022, and Sacra estimates $98 million in recurring revenue by January 2025. A February 2025 Form D records a further 126,834,036 dollars of equity sold, flagged in the filing as a business combination transaction rather than a raise. The same filing enters Drata's revenue range as decline to disclose, so no margin or profitability measure appears in the cited record. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 | Four outside sources place Drata in the same category without help from Drata. TechCrunch calls it a security compliance and automation platform, SecurityWeek a security and compliance automation provider, Sacra puts it in compliance automation beside Vanta and Secureframe, and YipitData treats it as one of four named vendors in compliance software. No cited source places Drata as the leader of the category as a whole, and YipitData puts it ahead only among enterprise buyers, so buyers place it easily without treating it as the category's reference point. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Real friction, no structural moat. Drata wires into a customer's cloud accounts, code repositories and employee devices through the integration catalogue Sacra sizes at 170 or more, hosts the trust page the customer's own prospects read, and YipitData reports that direct moves between Drata and Vanta are rare. Sacra records that broader governance vendors such as OneTrust sell an overlapping product, its FedRAMP certification sits at the low baseline, and nothing in the reviewed record puts a bundled substitute out of reach. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Vanta could widen its mid-market lead beyond the roughly two-to-one customer gap YipitData observed while Drata's mid-market count stays flat.
- AI Agent Governance could stay in limited availability, or ship without the OpenAI, Google Vertex AI and AWS Bedrock coverage Drata says is in development.
- A cloud or identity platform vendor could collect the same control evidence from systems it already runs and give it away with the platform.
- OneTrust and other established governance vendors could win the enterprise segment where YipitData now records Drata ahead of Vanta.
- The 10% headcount decline YipitData recorded through February 2026 could continue and leave Drata slower to ship for the large customers it has been winning.

### Problem & Market

Drata sells to the person who has to prove a company's security to someone else. Its customer stories carry the titles of the people it quotes: a chief information security officer, a head of governance, risk and compliance, and Okta's vice president for security trust and culture. The work those buyers hand over is evidence collection for audits and answers to inbound security questionnaires.

The pain has a documented size. Sacra records that before compliance automation existed, a startup seeking SOC 2 faced six to twelve month in-person audits by accounting firms at $50-100K upfront. Markowitz told TechCrunch that a security and compliance program is a requirement for selling to larger companies, which is why the spend starts early rather than at maturity.

What changed since is the buyer's calendar. YipitData describes security reviews and compliance requirements as increasingly standardised across software procurement, so companies invest earlier in platforms that automate audit readiness. That reframes the purchase from an audit expense into a cost of selling. \[[s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

Drata sells several product lines on a single platform. Compliance Automation collects audit evidence and monitors controls, Enterprise GRC centralises controls, risks, policies and evidence and maps a control once for reuse across frameworks, Trust Center publishes a customer's posture to its own prospects, AI Questionnaire Assistance drafts answers from approved content, and Third-Party Risk Management runs vendor assessments.

The collection mechanism is the load-bearing part. Sacra describes the platform reading security configurations and access permissions from software-as-a-service applications, cloud providers and employee devices through the 170 or more integrations Sacra counts, so a control's status is read from the systems that hold it rather than assembled by hand. Sacra also records support for more than 20 frameworks.

The sixth line is not on general release. Drata's own page marks AI Agent Governance as limited availability and invites enterprises to apply for early access, and Security Boulevard reports that it ships first for Anthropic while native coverage for OpenAI, Google Vertex AI and AWS Bedrock is still in development. A buyer running agents on those other platforms is waiting. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

The category has split by buyer size, and Drata now sits on the enterprise side of the split. YipitData's spend panel put Vanta at 138 observed mid-market customers in February 2026 against Drata's 77, and Drata ahead in enterprise at 45 observed customers against 31, with enterprise spend of roughly $242K against $159K.

That position brings a different set of rivals. Sacra records that broader governance vendors such as OneTrust, which acquired Tugboat Logic, sell overlapping capability to larger organisations, so the enterprise segment Drata leads on adoption is one those vendors already serve.

Below Drata the field keeps filling. Sacra names Sprinto and TrustCloud as newer entrants aimed at smaller companies with lower-cost and freemium offerings. YipitData recorded Sprinto adoption rising 233% since May 2025, driven primarily by new customers rather than by taking them from rivals. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Drata publishes named references across several segments. Its customer stories cover Okta, Asana, Brex and Instacart, and its trust center names OpenAI, LinkedIn, Wiz and T-Mobile among the companies that have reviewed it. TechCrunch reported Notion and Lemonade as customers in 2022.

The scale figures come from Drata and from research estimates rather than from reported results. Drata says it grew revenue 60% year over year across 80 or more countries, and it publishes two customer counts, more than 8,000 in one place and more than 8,500 in another. Sacra estimated $98 million in recurring revenue in January 2025, on an average contract of about $13.5K.

One independent measurement complicates the picture. YipitData recorded Drata's headcount falling 10% over six months to 707 people while its enterprise spend rose, a combination that reads either as leaner selling or as a contraction, and the cited record does not settle which. \[[s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian and Troy Markowitz founded Drata in 2020 and still hold its chief executive, chief technology and chief operating roles. Drata's SEC Form D lists all three as officers of the company, so the leadership is verifiable outside the vendor's own pages.

They had built together before, and that company reached an exit. Drata's five-year post records that Adam Markowitz founded Portfolium, an education technology platform serving students across more than 3,600 colleges and universities, and that Instructure acquired it in 2019. The about page records his earlier work as an aerospace engineer on NASA's Space Shuttle Program.

That exit sits outside the field they now sell into. The reviewed record shows no earlier security or compliance build by any of the three, and no sustained publication or research record. A buyer weighing domain depth is weighing Drata's own years rather than a prior security company. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Drata runs its own trust center on the product it sells. The page lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, HIPAA and GDPR, and puts the underlying reports and the ISO statement of applicability behind a get-access step.

It also publishes incidents rather than only certificates. The trust center carries a May 2026 assessment of the TanStack supply-chain compromise stating that Drata's pinned package versions predate the affected range, which is the kind of disclosure a buyer can check against a date.

The federal material is the substantive part. The trust center links to the FedRAMP Marketplace entry and posts a Schellman assessment plan and a June 2026 ongoing certification report. The Marketplace record itself lists the Drata Trust Management Platform as FedRAMP Certified at Class B, the low baseline, certified since December 2025. Drata's security page separately describes a vulnerability disclosure programme and more than 100 monitored controls. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vanta | competes with | Sacra names it as the leader of the direct competitor landscape, and YipitData compares the two head to head across mid-market and enterprise segments. |
| Secureframe | competes with | Sacra places it in the same 2020 founding cohort as Drata among the vendors that automated compliance evidence collection. |
| Sprinto | competes with | Sacra places it among newer entrants aimed at smaller companies with lower-cost and freemium offerings. |
| OneTrust | adjacent | Sacra describes traditional governance vendors such as OneTrust offering broader privacy, security and compliance suites to larger enterprises. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-08-18. Scope: whole company.

Drata's compliance credentials are mostly the same ones its customers buy the product to obtain. Its trust center lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and HIPAA, a package a funded rival can obtain through ordinary enterprise preparation. The exception is federal. The FedRAMP Marketplace records the Drata Trust Management Platform as FedRAMP Certified at Class B, the low baseline, since December 2025. A replacement has to earn that from the government rather than buy it. Everything else is ordinary friction, meaning connections into a customer's cloud accounts, code repositories and employee devices, and an approved answer set built inside the product. The cited record documents that friction and does not size what leaving would cost.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Drata sells software the customer's own team operates and owns the outcome of, priced by company size and framework coverage at about $13.5K on average. The reviewed record describes onboarding, customer success and a help centre rather than a delivery layer that accepts responsibility for a customer's compliance result. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | The friction is real and of the kind this rung names, meaning integrations into a customer's cloud accounts, code repositories and employee devices, an approved answer set built inside the product, and control mappings across frameworks. Sacra sizes that catalogue at 170 or more integrations and Drata's own Marketplace entry claims 300 or more, but the cited record does not size the migration, so the switching mechanism is documented and its cost is not. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 2/3 | The FedRAMP Marketplace records the Drata Trust Management Platform as FedRAMP Certified at Class B on the 20x program path, certified since December 2025 and in ongoing certification, which is a government-mediated validation a replacement has to obtain rather than assume. The cited record does not name a customer for whom that authorisation is a buying requirement. The rest of the package, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and HIPAA, is ordinary enterprise preparation. \[[s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 2/3 | The engineering is non-trivial integration work with moderate algorithmic depth. Sacra describes reading configurations and access permissions across software-as-a-service applications, cloud providers and employee devices through the 170 or more integrations Sacra counts, and cross-mapping one control to several frameworks, and drafting questionnaire answers from a customer's approved trust content. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 | The buyer class in the cited record is blended and its centre is mid-market. Sacra puts the average contract at about $13.5K, and YipitData observed more mid-market than enterprise Drata customers in February 2026. Drata does file enterprise-size customer stories under a financial-services label, and its Marketplace description claims government and financial services, but no cited source establishes any named customer as a regulated entity. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | Drata is a platform with application features rather than infrastructure other systems depend on. It carries the integration catalogue Sacra sizes at 170 or more, several product lines on one platform, and hosted trust pages that a customer's prospects visit, but the reviewed record shows no other application relying on Drata at runtime. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 2/3 | One named non-public aggregate appears in the record: Drata says it processed more than 2.1 million security questions across its customer base in nine months through what it calls the Trust Graph, and describes the resulting insights as derived from aggregate platform activity. The control frameworks and policy templates around it are public standards, and a rival with more customers could accumulate a comparable pool. \[[s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Drata sells to security and governance teams, and the record names them by title. Its customer stories quote a chief information security officer, a head of governance, risk and compliance, and Okta's vice president for security trust and culture, and the Okta story records that Okta's security team runs the trust center day to day.

The paying base spans the three stages Drata's own homepage markets to, startup, growth and enterprise. Sacra puts the average contract at about $13.5K and says the revenue mix spans high-growth startups to large enterprises, and Drata itself publishes no breakdown of that base by segment.

Independent observation shows the two ends moving differently. YipitData put Drata at 45 observed enterprise customers in February 2026 against Vanta's 31, and at 77 mid-market customers against Vanta's 138, with the mid-market count roughly flat. The buyer Drata wins is increasingly the larger one. \[[s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

AI does two jobs in the shipping product: drafting questionnaire answers and running vendor assessments. Drata's product pages describe drafting responses from a customer's approved trust content, its homepage describes AI agents performing criteria-based third-party risk assessments, and Drata says it has processed two million questions through the questionnaire product.

Drata discloses a second and larger figure separately, and it is the closest thing to a private dataset in the record. Drata says it processed more than 2.1 million security questions across its customer base in nine months and saw AI-specific questions rise more than 30%, and it describes those insights as derived from aggregate platform activity.

The newest AI line is not generally available. Drata's own page marks AI Agent Governance as limited availability with an early-access application, and Security Boulevard describes a sensor, a policy proxy for agent tool calls and a tamper-evident evidence feed shipping first for Anthropic. Treating it as shipped capability would overstate what a buyer can buy today. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

The motion runs from self-serve compliance up into enterprise governance. Drata markets startup, growth and enterprise stages and routes buyers to a demo rather than to a public price, and Sacra puts the average contract at about $13.5K, which is a volume business with an enterprise tail.

The trust center pulls a second buyer into the room. Okta's story describes adopting it to publish security documentation faster and to cut low-value security conversations, and Drata quotes a customer saying the governance function shifted from a defensive one to a business enabler. That reframes the purchase as sales enablement rather than audit cost.

The enterprise side is where the observed spend is larger. YipitData recorded roughly $242K of Drata enterprise spend in February 2026 against Vanta's $159K, while Drata's mid-market customer count stayed roughly flat. Sacra records that enterprise customers on several frameworks and added modules are the higher-value contracts. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Drata names no price in the reviewed pages. Its products page carries a pricing section that routes to plans rather than to figures, so the commercial terms are not visible to a reader.

The one figure in the record is an outside estimate. Sacra puts Drata's average contract at about $13.5K and says pricing turns on company size and framework coverage, with enterprise customers on multiple frameworks and added modules paying more.

That structure ties revenue to how large a customer grows and how many regimes apply to it. Sacra records the same roughly $13.5K average across the automation cohort, so the pricing shape is the category's rather than Drata's. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

The customer's own team runs the platform. Drata sells software that connects to the customer's systems and reports control status, and the reviewed record shows no step at which Drata takes over the outcome.

Deployment rests on integrations rather than on services. Sacra counts 170 or more integrations plus an optional agent that continuously monitors controls and collects evidence, which is what lets a control's status be read from the system that holds it.

Support is offered as a distinct function rather than as a delivered service. Drata's products page markets customer success from onboarding through launch alongside a help centre, and the reviewed record describes no delivery layer that takes responsibility for a customer's compliance result. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Most of Drata's attestations are the wide, ordinary package. Its trust center lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, HIPAA and GDPR, all of which a funded competitor can also obtain, so they answer a buyer's questions rather than narrowing the field of alternatives. The government record is the one that does not: the FedRAMP Marketplace lists the platform as FedRAMP Certified at Class B since December 2025.

The interesting part is the disclosure habit. The trust center publishes dated incident assessments, including a May 2026 note on the TanStack supply-chain compromise stating that Drata's pinned versions predate the affected range, and Drata's security page describes a vulnerability disclosure programme.

The customer-facing effect is the product's own argument. Okta's story records that its security team updates trust content directly and that fewer customers need a call, which is the mechanism Drata sells to everyone else. \[[s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Drata is a platform in its own stack rather than infrastructure other applications run on. It connects outward to a customer's cloud accounts, code repositories, identity systems and employee devices through the integration catalogue Sacra sizes at 170 or more, and it publishes a hosted trust page that the customer's prospects visit.

The SafeBase acquisition added a second surface. SecurityWeek reported on 12 February 2025 that Drata had entered a definitive agreement to acquire the trust-center company, and that it had been told the deal was worth $250 million. Okta's story describes adopting SafeBase by Drata's trust center, so the acquired product now carries a Drata brand inside customer sales processes.

Nothing in the reviewed record shows other applications depending on Drata at runtime. The platform reads from a customer's systems and publishes outward, which is a wide surface rather than a foundation. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Three founders started Drata in 2020 and still hold the top three operating roles. Drata's SEC Form D lists Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian and Troy Markowitz as officers, which puts the leadership in a regulatory filing rather than only on the vendor's own pages.

Their shared history includes an exit, in a different field. Drata's five-year post records that Adam Markowitz founded Portfolium, an education technology platform, and that Instructure acquired it in 2019, and the about page records his earlier work as an aerospace engineer on NASA's Space Shuttle Program.

The organisation shrank while the enterprise business grew. YipitData recorded headcount falling 10% over six months to 707 people through February 2026 and does not say which functions shrank, so a buyer signing a multi-year contract is signing with a smaller company than half a year ago. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Drata products page: platform overview](https://drata.com/products) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| f2 | [TechCrunch: Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation](https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/security-compliance-and-automation-platform-drata-nabs-200m-at-2b-valuation/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| f3 | [Drata blog: Five Years In, Becoming The Trust Layer Between Great Companies](https://drata.com/blog/celebrating-five-years) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| f4 | [Sacra: Drata revenue, valuation and funding](https://sacra.com/c/drata/) | research | 2026-08-18 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Drata products page: platform overview and product lineup](https://drata.com/products) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | [Drata homepage: product lineup, customer count and G2 rating](https://drata.com/) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s3 | [Drata about page: founders, history and office locations](https://drata.com/about) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s4 | [TechCrunch: Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation](https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/security-compliance-and-automation-platform-drata-nabs-200m-at-2b-valuation/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| s5 | [SecurityWeek: Drata to Acquire SafeBase in $250 Million Deal](https://www.securityweek.com/drata-to-acquire-safebase-in-250-million-deal/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| s6 | [Sacra: Drata revenue, valuation and funding research note](https://sacra.com/c/drata/) | research | 2026-08-18 |
| s7 | [YipitData: Who’s Winning Compliance AI in 2026, Vanta or Drata](https://www.yipitdata.com/resources/vanta-vs-drata-compliance-software-2026) | research | 2026-08-18 |
| s8 | [SEC Form D for an exempt equity offering by Drata Inc., signed 2025-03-07](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840122/000184012225000001/primary_doc.xml) | regulatory | 2026-08-18 |
| s9 | [Drata blog: Five Years In, Becoming The Trust Layer Between Great Companies](https://drata.com/blog/celebrating-five-years) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s10 | [Drata Trust Center: attestations, certifications and incident notices](https://trust.drata.com/) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s11 | [Drata AI Agent Governance product page, in limited availability](https://drata.com/products/agent-governance) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s12 | [Security Boulevard: Drata Opens Limited Availability for AI Agent Governance Product](https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/drata-opens-limited-availability-for-ai-agent-governance-product/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| s13 | [Drata customer stories index with named customers and buyer job titles](https://drata.com/customers) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s14 | [Drata customer story: Okta Trust Center](https://drata.com/customers/okta) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s15 | [Help Net Security industry-news item carrying Drata’s AI Agent Governance announcement](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/10/drata-ai-agent-governance/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| s16 | [Drata security and compliance page describing its own security program](https://drata.com/security) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s17 | [FedRAMP Marketplace product record for the Drata Trust Management Platform](https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/products/FR2600167032) | regulatory | 2026-08-18 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Drata products page: platform overview and product lineup](https://drata.com/products) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | [Drata homepage: product lineup, customer count and G2 rating](https://drata.com/) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s3 | [Drata about page: founders, history and office locations](https://drata.com/about) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s4 | [TechCrunch: Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation](https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/security-compliance-and-automation-platform-drata-nabs-200m-at-2b-valuation/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| s5 | [SecurityWeek: Drata to Acquire SafeBase in $250 Million Deal](https://www.securityweek.com/drata-to-acquire-safebase-in-250-million-deal/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| s6 | [Sacra: Drata revenue, valuation and funding research note](https://sacra.com/c/drata/) | research | 2026-08-18 |
| s7 | [YipitData: Who’s Winning Compliance AI in 2026, Vanta or Drata](https://www.yipitdata.com/resources/vanta-vs-drata-compliance-software-2026) | research | 2026-08-18 |
| s8 | [SEC Form D for an exempt equity offering by Drata Inc., signed 2025-03-07](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840122/000184012225000001/primary_doc.xml) | regulatory | 2026-08-18 |
| s9 | [Drata blog: Five Years In, Becoming The Trust Layer Between Great Companies](https://drata.com/blog/celebrating-five-years) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s10 | [Drata Trust Center: attestations, certifications and incident notices](https://trust.drata.com/) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s11 | [Drata AI Agent Governance product page, in limited availability](https://drata.com/products/agent-governance) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s12 | [Security Boulevard: Drata Opens Limited Availability for AI Agent Governance Product](https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/drata-opens-limited-availability-for-ai-agent-governance-product/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| s13 | [Drata customer stories index with named customers and buyer job titles](https://drata.com/customers) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s14 | [Drata customer story: Okta Trust Center](https://drata.com/customers/okta) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s15 | [Help Net Security industry-news item carrying Drata’s AI Agent Governance announcement](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/10/drata-ai-agent-governance/) | press | 2026-08-18 |
| s16 | [Drata security and compliance page describing its own security program](https://drata.com/security) | official | 2026-08-18 |
| s17 | [FedRAMP Marketplace product record for the Drata Trust Management Platform](https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/products/FR2600167032) | regulatory | 2026-08-18 |

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