Vanta

Compliance is where fast-growing fintechs go to slow down.

Fintech of the week: Vanta

In fintech, speed is the product. But the moment you start selling into bigger partners, bigger banks, or bigger enterprises, you hit the same wall.

Not the audit itself. The endless back-and-forth that comes before and after it. Vendor questionnaires. Evidence requests. Access reviews. Someone, somewhere, always needs one more screenshot.

Vanta sells trust management software that helps teams prove security and privacy compliance without living in spreadsheets. You connect the systems you already run. Cloud. Identity. The core places where controls actually happen. Then Vanta continuously monitors what matters and turns it into audit-ready evidence when you need SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

And when enterprise buyers ask, “Can you show me how you handle security?”, Vanta gives you a customer-facing Trust Center so you are not rebuilding the same answers every week.

The business model is classic B2B SaaS, and it makes sense. Start with founders who feel the pain first. Then expand into security, IT, compliance, and procurement as the company grows and deal sizes get bigger.

The traction is loud. Vanta has said it reached more than 14,000 customers across 102 countries. In July 2025, it raised a $150M Series D at a $4.15B valuation, led by Wellington, with investors including Sequoia, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, J.P. Morgan, Craft, YC, Atlassian Ventures, and CrowdStrike Ventures.

Christina Cacioppo and Erik Goldman started Vanta in 2018, right as “show me your controls” became a default step in buying anything. That timing was not an accident. Every software company has become a vendor. Every vendor became a risk. And trust quietly turned into a revenue function, not a checkbox.

This is why I keep watching the trust stack. The best fintech teams are not just building better products. They are building faster ways to earn the right to sell them.

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If you run a fintech, would you rather buy a platform like Vanta or keep compliance in-house with auditors and point tools?

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