# 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: 2026-07-12

## Executive Summary

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.

## 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 |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 |
| Market Timing | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 2/5 |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 |

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## 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.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 3/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## 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

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| 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

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| 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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