Vanta

Vanta is a compliance and trust management platform, founded in 2018 by Christina Cacioppo after she experienced the manual overhead of achieving SOC 2 compliance firsthand while leading Dropbox Paper. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, Sydney, Dublin and London, and reports more than 16,000 customers, including Atlassian, Snowflake, GitHub, Ramp and Duolingo. Vanta is privately held, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

For the SOX-adjacent use case, Vanta offers a dedicated SOX IT General Controls (ITGC) product: a pre-built control library covering access management, change management and IT operations, continuous automated testing, and control mapping to an organization's financial applications with adaptive scoping for complex environments. Vanta positions the product for public US companies (for whom SOX ITGC compliance is mandatory), companies preparing for an IPO, and organizations that already run SOC 2 or ISO 27001 programs and want to reuse overlapping evidence. Vanta estimates roughly 40 hours of initial preparation time for SOX ITGC and cites a 50% reduction in audit completion time among customers using the platform.

Beyond SOX ITGC, Vanta's broader platform spans continuous compliance monitoring across 35+ frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP and others), a risk register with continuous monitoring and reporting, third-party vendor risk management, and a public-facing Trust Center. Evidence collection is automated through more than 400 integrations across cloud, code, identity and device tools, with AI-assisted remediation guidance. Vanta does not publicly document connectors for specific ERP or accounting systems; its SOX ITGC controls are scoped to an organization's financial applications generically rather than through named ERP integrations.