Aglide vs Palo Alto Networks
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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.
Santa Clara cybersecurity platform (NASDAQ: PANW) $8.0B FY2024 revenue (+16%); platformization 3,600+ customers, Cortex XSIAM AI SOC, $4.2B NGSSAR +42%, competing with CrowdStrike and Microsoft Defender.
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Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is a Santa Clara, California-based cybersecurity platform company — publicly traded on the NASDAQ (NASDAQ: PANW) as an S&P 500 Information Technology component — providing network security, cloud security, and AI-driven security operations through three integrated security platforms: Strata (network security — next-generation firewalls, SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access), Prisma Cloud (cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, CSPM/CWPP), and Cortex (AI-driven security operations — XSIAM extended security intelligence and automation management, XDR endpoint detection and response, XSOAR security orchestration) through approximately 15,000 employees worldwide. In fiscal year 2024 (ending July 2024), Palo Alto Networks reported revenues of $8.0 billion (+16% year-over-year), with next-generation security Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR — Prisma Cloud and Cortex subscriptions) growing 42% to $4.2 billion as large enterprise and government customers consolidated security toolsets onto Palo Alto Networks' platform versus maintaining dozens of point solution security vendors. CEO Nikesh Arora (joined 2018 from SoftBank as Chairman and CEO) has executed the "platformization" strategy — convincing large enterprise security buyers to replace 10-15 individual security vendors (email security, endpoint protection, cloud workload protection, network detection) with a consolidated Palo Alto Networks platform contract that provides 80% of point-solution capabilities at 50% of the total cost — using the first-year transition economics to accelerate platform adoption through deferred commitment offers (paying a lower platform price in year 1 in exchange for multi-year platform commitment in years 2-4).
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