Aglide vs IBM
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SF YC S23 agentic identity platform delivering Okta-level SSO for any app without SAML or SSO tax; $3.5M seed competing with Okta and Microsoft Entra for enterprise IAM with AI-agent authentication for 100% of applications including non-SAML tools.
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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.
Armonk NY hybrid cloud and enterprise AI (NYSE: IBM) at $62.8B revenue; $6B+ generative AI bookings, record $12.7B free cash flow 2024, DataStax acquisition for watsonx vector database competing with Microsoft Azure for enterprise AI.
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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an Armonk, New York-based global technology and consulting company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IBM) as an S&P 500 component — providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence software, and enterprise IT consulting through approximately 270,300 employees in 170 countries with $62.8 billion in annual revenue. Founded on June 16, 1911, as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger orchestrated by financier Charles Ranlett Flint, renamed IBM in 1924 under Thomas Watson Sr., IBM has undergone multiple strategic transformations over its 110+ year history: building the System/360 mainframe platform (1964), launching the IBM PC (1981), selling the PC division to Lenovo (2005, $1.75B), and completing the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition (2019) that repositioned IBM as a hybrid cloud platform company. CEO Arvind Krishna (appointed April 2020) has focused IBM's strategy on three areas: hybrid cloud (powered by Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform), AI (the watsonx platform for enterprise AI model development and deployment), and enterprise consulting. Under Krishna, IBM recorded $12.7 billion in free cash flow in 2024 (a company record), surpassed $6 billion in generative AI bookings since June 2023, and saw the stock price double — trading at all-time highs through 2024-2025. IBM announced the DataStax acquisition in 2025 to deepen watsonx's data layer with AstraDB (vector database for AI applications), DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra), and Langflow (low-code AI agent development).
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