# Cyber Company Profiles: Teleport

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## At a Glance

- Website: [goteleport.com](https://goteleport.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/teleport
- Type: Security for AI, Identity Access, Infrastructure
- Also known as: Gravitational, Inc., Gravitational
- Market readiness: Established (26/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2015
- Funding: $169M total
- Last updated: 2026-08-05

## Executive Summary

Teleport sells infrastructure access built on cryptographic identity and short-lived certificates instead of shared keys and standing passwords. Press coverage names Nasdaq, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Elastic as customers, 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.

## 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 | 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. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2015 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Oakland, California, United States | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $169M total | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series C, $110M (May 2022), led by Bessemer Venture Partners | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| 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. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources):

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

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.

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Workload Platforms |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| AI Agent Identities |  |  | ✓ |  |  |  |

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.

## Market Readiness

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

**Established (26/40)**

Analyzed 2026-06-30. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | Teleport names a precise buyer, engineering and security teams replacing SSH keys, passwords, and VPNs, but the pain stays documented mainly in the vendor's own materials and qualitative customer accounts, without independent quantification of how widespread or costly the problem is. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | Public documentation describes a single Go binary acting as an identity-aware proxy and certificate authority across SSH, Kubernetes, databases, Windows, web apps, and Git, and the open-source project is independently inspectable. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 3/5 | The buyer-side demand reads as indirect, since 2022 press on rising identity-based access needs is now stale and the current signal is the vendor's own Beams beta and the AI-agent identity argument rather than a fresh independent demand signal within the past year. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 | The co-founder who runs the company previously built Mailgun, which Rackspace acquired, a verifiable prior exit in an adjacent developer-infrastructure domain, and Alexander Klizhentas is a named co-founder and chief technology officer. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 | Press coverage of the 2022 raise names marquee reference customers including Nasdaq, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Elastic, reported nearly tripled revenue and a doubled customer base from 2020 to 2021, and an independent Gartner Peer Insights profile adds favorable verified-user ratings in the privileged access management market. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 2/5 | The 2022 Series C is now more than four years old, past a normal venture cycle, with no later funding or revenue disclosed in the reviewed sources, so the stale raise lacks a step-change despite continued shipping like the Beams beta. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 | Press and an independent Gartner Peer Insights profile both place Teleport in privileged access management, but it spans privileged access, zero-trust access, secrets, and an infrastructure-identity framing of its own, so the placement still needs explanation rather than resolving to one established slot. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Certificate-based access embedded across many protocols and a large open-source community exceed a quarterly feature, but privileged access vendors and cloud identity providers sell adjacent access controls that pressure a standalone platform. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Cloud identity providers such as Okta or Microsoft Entra could extend their own infrastructure access controls and absorb the standalone use case.
- Privileged access incumbents such as CyberArk or Delinea could match certificate-based access and undercut Teleport on existing enterprise relationships.
- No funding or revenue figure later than the 2022 round appears in the reviewed sources, which could signal slower growth than the unicorn round implied.
- The open-source edition could let larger teams self-serve and limit conversion to paid tiers.

### Problem & Market

Teleport targets the secrets that infrastructure access has always relied on. Engineering and security teams manage SSH keys, database passwords, and VPN credentials that grant standing access to servers and clusters, and those long-lived secrets are what attackers reuse after a breach. Teleport replaces them with short-lived certificates tied to a verified identity.

The buyer is concrete and the pain is documented in the product itself. Teleport's repository spells out the use cases, from single sign-on across cloud and on-premises infrastructure to just-in-time access requests for sensitive systems. A reader can map each capability to a credential their own team currently manages by hand. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform is a single Go binary that acts as an identity-aware proxy and a certificate authority. It issues short-lived certificates and enforces role-based access for SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, Windows desktops, and internal web apps, then records and audits each session.

The open-source project gives the capability claims independent weight. The code is public on GitHub with a large contributor community, so a buyer can inspect the architecture and run it before paying. Teleport has also extended coverage to Git repositories and Model Context Protocol servers, which keeps the access layer relevant as teams add new kinds of infrastructure. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Teleport faces three sets of competitors at once. Privileged access vendors such as CyberArk and Delinea sell credential vaulting and session control, cloud identity providers such as Okta and Microsoft Entra own the identity that Teleport consumes, and HashiCorp offers Boundary and Vault for similar access and secrets problems.

Its position holds because the certificate-based model is hard to copy piecemeal. A rival that wants to match Teleport has to issue and rotate short-lived certificates across SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and Windows, not just add one connector, and Teleport's open-source adoption gives it a base of practitioners who already run the tool. That breadth is the edge the incumbents would have to rebuild. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Teleport names marquee customers and a unicorn round, though the freshest growth proof is several years old. Press coverage of the 2022 Series C names Nasdaq, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Elastic as customers, the homepage carries engineer testimonials, and that round reported nearly tripled revenue and a doubled customer base from 2020 to 2021.

The gap is that the reviewed sources show no later funding or revenue disclosure. An independent Gartner Peer Insights profile gives a more current outside signal, listing Teleport in the privileged access management market with favorable verified user reviews. The durable evidence of pull today is the open-source adoption, those independent reviews, and the named reference customers, not a recent disclosed financial metric. A buyer weighing momentum should read the traction as established rather than freshly growing until newer numbers appear. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Teleport's founding team carries a verifiable track record in developer infrastructure. Co-founder and chief executive Ev Kontsevoy previously built Mailgun, which Rackspace acquired, an exit in an adjacent domain that press coverage documents.

The bench is publicly identifiable. Alexander Klizhentas is the named co-founder and chief technology officer on the About page, and the company changed its name from Gravitational to Teleport in 2020. The company is headquartered in Oakland and runs a remote-first team across many countries. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Teleport's open-source model doubles as a trust signal. Buyers in regulated settings can inspect the code, run it in their own environment, and audit every recorded session, which lowers the leap of faith a closed platform demands.

Customer evidence reinforces the compliance fit. A homepage testimonial credits Teleport's FIPS endpoints and audit logs with helping achieve a FedRAMP Moderate authorization, which is the kind of outcome a security buyer in government or finance needs to see before adopting an access layer.

Teleport's product vulnerabilities surface through the public CVE process. CVE-2025-49825, published in June 2025, is a remote authentication bypass affecting Community Edition releases up to and including 17.5.1, the kind of disclosure a security buyer weighs alongside the open-source code and audit trail. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| CyberArk | competes with | Sells privileged access management with credential vaulting and session control that overlaps Teleport's access and audit functions. |
| HashiCorp | competes with | Offers Boundary for identity-based access and Vault for secrets, addressing the same infrastructure access and credential problems. |
| Okta | adjacent | Provides the workforce identity Teleport consumes and could extend into infrastructure access as an adjacent module. |
| Tailscale | adjacent | Editorial assessment: overlaps Teleport's secure-access problem from the network connectivity side. |

## 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 2026-07-12. Scope: whole company.

Teleport's hold on a customer is the cost of leaving rather than a data or judgment advantage. Its platform issues short-lived certificates and sits in the access path for SSH, Kubernetes, databases, RDP, and web apps. A departing team must re-plumb how every resource is reached and rebuild the access policies and audit history it accumulated. That friction is real, but it brings no network effects or data-residency lock. Teleport delivers software, much of it open source, rather than judgment, and it gathers no proprietary cross-customer dataset. Its audit trails and in-progress attestations ease procurement without blocking a replacement. The durable edge is access built across many protocols that a rival would rebuild rather than buy.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Customers buy software capabilities such as certificate issuance, access control, and session audit, delivered as a self-hosted binary or a managed service. No judgment layer or accountability blend is part of the offer, and much of the code is open source. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Once Teleport sits in the access path with accumulated role-based policies, protocol integrations, and session-audit history, a departing customer must re-plumb how every server, cluster, and database is reached. The friction is meaningful, though it carries no network effects or data-residency lock that would raise it further. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | Session audit trails help customers meet their own obligations, but the attestations Teleport publishes for its newest managed product are pursued rather than held, and no regime mandates this product class. This is procurement assurance in progress rather than a barrier a replacement could not clear. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Issuing and rotating short-lived certificates across SSH, Kubernetes, databases, RDP, and web apps through an identity-aware proxy and certificate authority is security-critical distributed-systems engineering. Failure blocks production access, and the breadth reflects years of specialized identity work. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 | Named references such as Nasdaq, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Elastic skew enterprise, where procurement and legal slow replacement. The open-source community edition also lets smaller teams self-serve without a sales gate, which blends the buyer profile. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 3/3 | Teleport is infrastructure that users, workloads, and AI agents depend on to reach servers, clusters, and databases. They authenticate through it rather than around it, so removing it breaks how access is granted. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 | No proprietary cross-customer dataset or telemetry flywheel is evidenced, and the core code is publicly inspectable. Access policies and audit logs are tenant-specific configuration a rival could not buy but a customer could recreate. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Teleport sells to engineering and security teams that want to retire standing infrastructure secrets. The buyer manages SSH keys, database passwords, and VPN credentials that grant lasting access to servers and clusters, and Teleport replaces those with short-lived certificates tied to a verified identity. A reader can map each capability to a credential a team currently rotates by hand.

The company serves two adoption paths at once. Press coverage names Nasdaq, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Elastic as customers without saying which edition they run. Smaller teams can self-host the open-source edition without a sales conversation, a free adoption path that widens the top of the funnel. Paid conversion from that path is inferred strategy rather than a documented one.

Teleport has added a third segment around AI agents. Teleport Beams targets teams running coding agents and agentic jobs that need to reach infrastructure and inference endpoints without embedded secrets. The segment is early and sits in beta, so it reads as a forward bet rather than proven demand. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform is a single self-contained binary that acts as an identity-aware proxy and a certificate authority. It issues short-lived certificates and enforces role-based and attribute-based access for SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, RDP sessions, and internal web apps, then records and audits each session. Just-in-time access requests gate the most sensitive systems.

The open-source project gives the capability claims independent weight. The code is public on GitHub with an active contributor community, so a buyer can inspect the architecture and run it before paying. Teleport has extended the same access layer to Git repositories and Model Context Protocol servers, which keeps it relevant as teams adopt new infrastructure.

Teleport Beams applies the identity model to AI agents. Beams runs each agent in an isolated Firecracker micro-VM with a built-in short-lived identity and policy-controlled egress, so agents reach infrastructure and inference endpoints without static secrets. The product secures the agent as the asset rather than using AI as its engine, so the durable technical depth is protocol and systems engineering, not accumulated data. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Teleport pairs open-source adoption with enterprise sales. The open-source edition can supply a practitioner-led entry path, while the commercial offerings target organizations that need hosted operation, support, and governance. The reviewed sources do not document that funnel as a measured process, so it reads as inference. Press coverage names Nasdaq, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Elastic as customers, which anchors the enterprise motion.

The freshest financial proof is several years old. The last disclosed round reported nearly tripled revenue and a doubled customer base from 2020 to 2021, and the reviewed sources show no later funding or revenue disclosure. A Gartner Peer Insights listing places Teleport in the privileged access management market.

Teleport now frames its category around AI. The company calls itself the AI infrastructure identity company, leads its site with an agent-trust white paper, and its Beams site announces that the beta is live. The framing bets that the agent wave renews demand for the same access layer. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Teleport does not publish list prices. The pricing page describes usage-based pricing for the licensed products and routes buyers to a custom quote, which signals a sales-led, negotiated model aimed at larger deployments. A buyer cannot estimate cost before contacting sales.

The open-source edition sets a bounded free entry point below the commercial tier. The pricing page limits free Community Edition use to companies under 100 employees and under 10 million dollars in revenue, so qualifying teams self-host at no license cost and move to the paid platform or managed cloud for managed operation, support, and enterprise controls. That split lets the product land through engineering adoption and expand through procurement.

Public price levels stay opaque even as the billing units are disclosed. Teleport meters usage by active users, workload identities, and protected resources, but publishes no dollar figures against them, so comparison against privileged-access incumbents still depends on a direct quote. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Teleport ships as software the customer runs or as a managed cloud. The platform is a single self-contained binary that deploys as a background daemon or a Kubernetes workload, and a hosted cloud service offers the same control plane. Documentation is deep enough for an engineer to deploy without sales engagement.

Operating in the authentication path sets a high availability bar. When the proxy or certificate authority is slow or unavailable, users and workloads cannot reach the systems behind it, so uptime and upgrade discipline are core to the product rather than incidental.

Teleport Beams runs on the managed cloud. The service provisions a Firecracker micro-VM per agent, injects a short-lived certificate, and routes traffic through a tunnel before the agent runs, which keeps the isolation and identity handling on Teleport's side rather than the customer's. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Teleport's open-source model doubles as a trust signal. Buyers in regulated settings can read the code, run it in their own environment, and audit every recorded session, which lowers the leap of faith a closed platform asks for.

Formal attestations are still in progress on the newest surface. For Teleport Beams, the company reports compliance certifications as being pursued rather than already held, so a procurement team evaluating that offering weighs commitments in flight rather than completed audits.

Product vulnerabilities surface through the public CVE process. CVE-2025-49825 is a remote authentication bypass affecting Community Edition releases up to and including 17.5.1, and the disclosure noted no open-source patch available at posting. A security buyer weighs that record alongside the inspectable code and the session audit trail. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Teleport runs one identity model across many protocols. The same proxy, certificate authority, and access-control system front SSH, Kubernetes, databases, RDP, cloud consoles, web apps, Git, and Model Context Protocol servers, so a customer manages access to varied infrastructure through a single layer.

Teleport Beams is a platform proof point. The agent runtime reuses the platform's identity issuance, proxy, and audit machinery rather than starting from scratch, which shows the access layer extending to a new class of consumer without a separate stack.

The ecosystem leans on open source and standard identity plumbing. A public contributor community and chat channel surround the project, and the platform consumes existing single sign-on and cloud identity rather than replacing it. Third-party products built on Teleport as a foundation are not yet a visible part of the story. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Teleport's founding team carries a verifiable track record in developer infrastructure. Co-founder and chief executive Ev Kontsevoy earlier built Mailgun, which Rackspace acquired, an exit in an adjacent domain that press coverage documents. The co-founding chief technology officer is named publicly on the company site.

The team is distributed, with employees around the world. Teleport frames its culture around writing decisions down and shipping simple versions early, then improving on them.

The execution record is observable. Teleport has grown an open-source project with an active community, raised a growth round at a valuation above 1 billion dollars, and taken a second product line to beta with Teleport Beams, evidence that the team can ship beyond the original platform. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Teleport GitHub repository (gravitational/teleport)](https://github.com/gravitational/teleport) | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f2 | [Gartner Peer Insights: Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform company details](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/privileged-access-management/vendor/teleport/product/teleport-infrastructure-identity-platform) | research | 2026-06-30 |
| f3 | [About Teleport](https://goteleport.com/about/) | official | 2026-06-24 |
| f4 | [PR Newswire: Teleport Raises $110 Million Series C at $1.1 Billion Valuation](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teleport-raises-110-million-series-c-at-1-1-billion-valuation-led-by-bessemer-venture-partners-with-participation-from-new-investor-insight-partners-301537825.html) | press | 2026-06-24 |
| f5 | [Teleport Beams](https://www.beams.run/) | official | 2026-06-24 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Teleport homepage](https://goteleport.com) | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s2 | [Teleport GitHub repository (gravitational/teleport)](https://github.com/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](https://goteleport.com/about/) “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](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teleport-raises-110-million-series-c-at-1-1-billion-valuation-led-by-bessemer-venture-partners-with-participation-from-new-investor-insight-partners-301537825.html) “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](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/11/19/2130214/0/en/Gravitational-Rebrands-to-Teleport-Ushers-in-New-Era-of-Environment-Free-Computing.html) “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](https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/03/draft-teleport-raises-110m-simplify-infrastructure-access-identity/) “Its customers include big names such as Doordash Inc., Elastic N.V., Nasdaq Inc. and Snowflake Inc.” | press | 2026-06-24 |
| s7 | [Teleport Beams](https://www.beams.run/) “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](https://thenewstack.io/how-teleports-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](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49825) “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](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/privileged-access-management/vendor/teleport/product/teleport-infrastructure-identity-platform) “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 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Teleport homepage (Unified Identity)](https://goteleport.com) “One unified identity model establishes trusted interactions between humans, machines, and AI.” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s2 | [Teleport GitHub repository (gravitational/teleport)](https://github.com/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](https://goteleport.com/about/) “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)](https://goteleport.com/pricing/) “Teleport pricing is usage-based, for the products licensed within the Teleport” | official | 2026-07-08 |
| s5 | [Teleport Beams](https://www.beams.run/) “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](https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/03/draft-teleport-raises-110m-simplify-infrastructure-access-identity/) “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](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teleport-raises-110-million-series-c-at-1-1-billion-valuation-led-by-bessemer-venture-partners-with-participation-from-new-investor-insight-partners-301537825.html) “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](https://thenewstack.io/how-teleports-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](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49825) “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](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/privileged-access-management/vendor/teleport/product/teleport-infrastructure-identity-platform) “Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure.” | research | 2026-07-08 |

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