Company Overview
About Aglide
Aglide is a San Francisco-based enterprise identity and access management (IAM) company — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $3.5 million raised from YC, Davidovs Venture Collective, and Gurtin Ventures — providing organizations with an agentic identity platform that delivers Okta-level single sign-on (SSO) for any application without requiring SAML configuration, without charging the 'SSO tax' (the premium pricing that traditional IAM platforms charge for SSO features), and without maintaining an integration catalog of pre-built connectors. Founded in 2023 and initially serving fintech decacorns and global media companies, Aglide's zero-trust, end-to-end encrypted identity platform enables IT teams to secure any web or SaaS application with SSO access controls using AI agents that intelligently handle authentication flows without requiring application-side SAML or OAuth implementation.
Business Model & Competitive Advantage
Aglide's agentic identity approach addresses the fundamental limitation of traditional enterprise SSO implementations: platforms like Okta and Azure AD SSO require each application to implement SAML 2.0 or OAuth 2.0 identity federation standards — a technical integration that many enterprise software vendors haven't implemented (especially legacy or niche business applications) and that requires developer effort from both the IT team and the application vendor. Aglide's AI agents handle the SSO authentication flow by automating the browser-level login process intelligently (filling credentials, navigating multi-step authentication flows, handling MFA prompts) rather than relying on application-level protocol support — enabling SSO access management for 100% of an organization's applications rather than only the 50-70% that support SAML/OAuth. The zero-trust architecture (end-to-end encryption of credentials, no plaintext credential storage at Aglide) provides enterprise security compliance without the security risks of password vaulting that some credential-based SSO alternatives create.
Competitive Landscape 2025–2026
In 2025, Aglide competes in the enterprise identity, SSO, and identity governance market with Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA, dominant cloud identity, $2.6B+ revenue), Microsoft Entra (NASDAQ: MSFT, Azure AD-based enterprise identity integrated with Microsoft 365), and 1Password Business (credential management with SSO features, $620M raised) for enterprise IT team identity and access management adoption. The 'SSO tax' (Okta and similar platforms charging 2-3x premium for SSO features beyond basic authentication) has generated significant enterprise buyer frustration and created market opportunity for SSO-first alternatives that don't gate access controls behind premium pricing tiers. Aglide's agentic approach (using AI agents to handle authentication rather than requiring SAML integration) enables the no-integration-required deployment that reduces the IT implementation effort from weeks to hours. Y Combinator S23 backing positions Aglide within the enterprise security tool investor community. The 2025 strategy focuses on enterprise IT team deployments for mid-market companies outgrowing unmanaged credential sharing, building the automated access provisioning (AI agents that grant and revoke application access based on employee directory changes), and growing the compliance reporting for SOC 2 access review evidence.
Recent Activity
View all →Most Okta UAR workflows leave non-SSO apps to spreadsheets and manual follow-ups. Here's how to automate access reviews for banking portals, legacy tools, and every app outside your IDP.
Okta can't natively manage apps that don't support SAML or OIDC - and in most enterprise environments, that's roughly 30% of the app estate. This post breaks down the three approaches for closing that gap: Okta SWA, automated password managers, and SSO bridging platforms.
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