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SaaS identity security platform discovering all SaaS usage including shadow apps through identity-centric user activity analysis. Tel Aviv Israel; raised $41M+; Grip maps every app accessed by employee identities to eliminate unmanaged SaaS risk and orphaned account exposure.
Grip Security is a SaaS security risk management company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company takes an identity-centric approach to SaaS security, arguing that since every SaaS application requires user authentication, monitoring identity activity across identity providers reveals the full scope of SaaS usage — including shadow SaaS applications that IT and security teams never approved. Grip's platform connects to identity providers and discovers every SaaS application in use by analyzing authentication logs, regardless of whether IT provisioned the app or employees signed up independently.\n\nGrip raised $41 million in funding led by YL Ventures, with participation from Intel Capital and other investors. Its platform builds a continuous inventory of all SaaS applications in use, maps each application to the users accessing it, identifies the sensitivity of data the application accesses, and scores the risk of each application based on vendor security posture, compliance certifications, and permission scope. Security and IT teams can use this inventory to enforce SaaS governance policies, accelerate offboarding by identifying all apps a departing employee accessed, and reduce the attack surface from unmanaged SaaS sprawl.\n\nGrip's offboarding automation is a standout use case: when an employee leaves, IT typically only deactivates accounts in applications it manages. Grip identifies every SaaS application the departing employee used — including those IT doesn't manage — and enables automated or guided offboarding workflows to revoke access across the full SaaS estate. This reduces the risk of former employees retaining unauthorized access to company data through forgotten SaaS accounts.
SaaS security platform managing risks from SaaS-to-SaaS integrations, OAuth grants, and collaboration tool sprawl. Tel Aviv Israel; raised $25M+; Valence discovers and remediates risky third-party app connections across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack environments.
Valence Security is a SaaS security company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company identified a growing but underaddressed attack surface: the web of integrations, OAuth grants, and third-party app connections that accumulate as organizations adopt dozens of SaaS applications. Each integration creates a trust relationship that can be exploited if the third-party application is compromised, if a token is leaked, or if permissions are granted far beyond what the use case requires. Valence was built to give security teams full visibility and governance over this SaaS integration mesh.\n\nValence raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Microsoft's M12 venture fund, with participation from YL Ventures and Porsche Ventures. The platform connects to the organization's core SaaS applications — including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, GitHub, Slack, and Zoom — and discovers all OAuth applications connected to them, the permissions granted, the users who authorized them, and whether the connected applications have known security issues. Security teams can review, revoke, and enforce policies on third-party app access without disrupting end users.\n\nValence's collaboration security capabilities extend beyond OAuth to cover sharing configurations — identifying when sensitive documents, files, or data are shared externally or with overly broad permissions in collaboration tools. The platform also monitors for SaaS misconfigurations and tenant-level security settings that deviate from security baselines. Its remediation workflows allow security teams to alert the responsible users, request justification for sensitive access, or automatically revoke connections that violate policy.
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