Teleport
Teleport (Gravitational Inc.) provides a unified infrastructure identity platform that uses short-lived cryptographic certificates and zero-trust access to replace VPNs, SSH keys, and static secrets for humans, machines, and AI agents, serving 120+ enterprise customers across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2015
- HeadquartersOakland, United States
- Headcount101–250
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Teleport does
Teleport (legal entity Gravitational Inc.) is an infrastructure identity company that provides unified cryptographic identity and zero-trust access management for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform replaces passwords, SSH keys, static secrets, VPNs, and bastion hosts with short-lived X.509 and SSH certificates issued per session from a built-in certificate authority, backed by hardware root-of-trust (HSM, TPM, biometrics). Core platform modules include Teleport Zero Trust Access, Teleport Machine & Workload Identity (tbot agent issuing SPIFFE-compatible identities), Teleport Identity Governance (just-in-time access via Slack/Jira/PagerDuty/ServiceNow), and Teleport Identity Security (real-time anomaly detection with AI session summaries). The company has positioned itself as 'the AI Infrastructure Identity Company' with the Agentic Identity Framework (January 2026) and Beams (April 2026) — a trusted ephemeral runtime that executes AI agents inside isolated Firecracker VMs with delegated identity and full audit trails.
Teleport operates a multi-channel go-to-market combining direct enterprise field sales (case studies with Nasdaq, DoorDash, IBM, Airtable, Snowflake, GitLab, Elastic, Accenture), self-serve product-led growth through Community Edition (free for companies under 100 employees and under $10 million revenue) and 14-day Enterprise trials, and community-led growth via its open-source project (20k+ GitHub stars, 5,000+ Slack members). Revenue is generated primarily through usage-based Enterprise subscriptions billed on Monthly Active Users (MAU), Machine/Workload Identities (MWI), and Teleport Protected Resources (TPR), with multi-year contracts, minimum contract value requirements for self-hosted and multi-region deployments, and supplementary professional services. The company is venture-backed (founded 2015, headquartered in Oakland, CA), has raised $169 million including a $110 million Series C in May 2022 led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $1.1 billion valuation, and serves 120+ enterprise customers with coverage of FedRAMP Moderate, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and other compliance frameworks.
Teleport firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Teleport
- Legal name
- Gravitational Inc.
- Website
- https://goteleport.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2015
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 101–250 employees
- Short description
- Teleport (Gravitational Inc.) provides a unified infrastructure identity platform that uses short-lived cryptographic certificates and zero-trust access to replace VPNs, SSH keys, and static secrets for humans, machines, and AI agents, serving 120+ enterprise customers across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Teleport industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Identity & Access Management / Privileged Access Management
- NAICS
- Security Systems Services (56162)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Secrets Management & Machine Identity (API keys, certificates, workload identity) (HDAEAJAJ)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), Authentication (MFA/Passwordless/Biometrics) Platforms (BPAMAEAE)
Keywords
Where Teleport is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Oakland
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Teleport business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Enterprise Subscription (Infrastructure Identity Platform): Commercial licensing of Teleport Enterprise Edition for companies of all sizes. Billed on a usage-based model per monthly active users (MAUs), machine/workload identities (MWIs), and Teleport Protected Resources (TPRs). Deployment options include Cloud, On-premises, On-premises FIPS, Multi-region high availability, and Hybrid modes. Self-hosted and multi-region high availability deployments have minimum contract value requirements.
- Professional Services (Implementation Services): Onboarding Packages (Enterprise Architecture Workshop, Essentials, Standard, Advanced) and Consultant Packages for existing customers. Provided pursuant to Teleport's Professional Services Terms and Conditions.
- Community Edition (Freemium): Open-source Community Edition available free of charge to companies with fewer than 100 employees and less than US$10 million in revenue. Not all Enterprise Edition features are available in Community Edition. Serves as a product-led growth funnel into Enterprise.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Freemium | Others | Community Edition — Free open-source tier for small companies |
| Usage-based | Multi-year contract | Enterprise Edition — Full platform for all company sizes |
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels10 records
Teleport product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Teleport sells the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform, a unified software platform that provides cryptographic identity and zero trust access management for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform replaces passwords, static credentials, SSH keys, and VPNs with short-lived X.509/SSH certificates bound to hardware root-of-trust identities, offering modules for zero trust access, machine and workload identity, identity governance, and identity security. Teleport also sells the Beams trusted runtime for production AI agents and the Agentic Identity Framework for securing agentic AI deployments.
Product overview
Teleport offers the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform, a unified platform-plus-modules architecture that provides cryptographic identity and zero trust access for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents. The core platform comprises several integrated modules: Teleport Zero Trust Access (for secure infrastructure access replacing VPNs and static credentials), Teleport Machine & Workload Identity (tbot agent for CI/CD, microservices, and AI agent authentication), Teleport Identity Governance (just-in-time access, access lists, and compliance automation), and Teleport Identity Security (real-time anomaly detection and AI session summaries). The Agentic Identity Framework provides standards-based reference architectures for securing AI agents, while Beams offers a trusted ephemeral runtime environment with isolated Firecracker VMs for production AI agent deployment. The platform is available as Community Edition (free for small companies), Enterprise Edition (commercial), supports cloud and self-hosted deployment, and includes Teleport VNet for VPN-less internal connectivity.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Beams: Trusted agent runtimes for infrastructure - isolated ephemeral runtime environments for AI agents with built-in identity, access control, and audit capabilities without secrets.
- Agentic Identity Framework
- Teleport Identity Security
Products and services
- Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform Unified software platform that provides cryptographic identity, zero trust access, and identity governance for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Replaces passwords, SSH keys, and static credentials with short-lived X.509 certificates bound to hardware-root-of-trust identities. Used by enterprise security and platform engineering teams.
- Teleport Zero Trust Access Module providing identity-native access to servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, cloud consoles, web applications, and MCP servers using short-lived X.509 certificates. Includes Teleport VNet for VPN-less connectivity to internal TCP resources. Sold as part of the Teleport platform.
- Teleport Machine & Workload Identity Issues cryptographic identities to machines, CI/CD pipelines, containers, VMs, microservices, and services for short-lived, zero-trust access and inter-service authentication. Uses the tbot agent and supports SPIFFE-compatible IDs, JWTs, and X.509 SVIDs for mTLS across multi-cloud environments. Sold as part of the Teleport platform.
- Teleport Identity Governance Automates just-in-time access requests, access lists, access reviews, and compliance monitoring for infrastructure. Integrates with IdPs via SCIM, supports dual authorization for sensitive actions, and provides AI-powered access reviews that cluster and summarize access patterns. Sold as part of the Teleport platform.
- Teleport Identity Security Real-time identity risk analysis tracing identity chains across Okta, Teleport, AWS, GitHub, and more. Detects 50+ vulnerability types including privilege escalation and lateral movement, provides AI session summaries, Access Graph visualization, SQL editor for identity queries, and one-click identity locking. Sold as part of the Teleport platform.
- Teleport Unified Identity Layer Architectural layer providing cryptographic identities for humans, machines, workloads, endpoints, infrastructure assets, and AI agents from one control plane. Backs identities to biometrics for humans, TPM for machines, and HSM for workloads. Sold as part of the Teleport platform.
- Agentic Identity Framework Standards-driven framework providing designs, SDKs, and reference implementations for securely deploying autonomous AI agents. Establishes strong identity without shared secrets, preserves authorization workflows for delegates, enforces least-privileged access, and governs MCP endpoints with audit trails. Sold as part of the Teleport platform.
- Beams Trusted ephemeral runtime for infrastructure AI agents. Runs each agent in an isolated Firecracker VM with built-in delegated identity, connected to infrastructure and inference services without secrets. Provides full audit trails, access control, and supports LLM Proxy and Delegated Identity capabilities for production AI agent deployment.
- Beams LLM Proxy and Delegated Identity Public beta capabilities within Beams providing LLM Proxy controls over LLM interactions (rate limiting, budgeting, model routing, prompt/response tracking) and Delegated Identity that enables AI agents to operate as delegates on behalf of human or service principals under the same policy framework.
Quantifiable outcome
- 95% reduction in exposed attack surface — zero standing privileges by default
- +6 more outcomes
Companies that use Teleport
Customer profileNamed customers15 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Teleport technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration28 records
AI capability6 records
Feature15 records
Teleport partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core.
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)coreTeleport integrates deeply with AWS IAM Identity Center for RBAC synchronization, AWS cloud consoles for zero trust access, and issues short-lived certificates for AWS workloads. AWS Startups team features Teleport as a strategic technology partner for zero trust architecture in AWS environments. Benjamin Gardiner, Senior Partner Solutions Architect AWS Startups, quoted on Teleport's website.
- GCP (Google Cloud Platform)coreTeleport supports GCP workload identity federation, issues SPIFFE/X.509 identities across GCP environments, and secures access to GCP cloud consoles. Part of Teleport's multi-cloud strategy.
- AzurecoreTeleport integrates with Azure for workload identity management, issues short-lived credentials for Azure workloads and services, and supports Azure AD/Microsoft Entra ID integration for RBAC synchronization.
- OktacoreOkta integration for SSO, SCIM-based user provisioning, and RBAC synchronization. Teleport Identity Security monitors Okta events including admin MFA disabled, OAuth token reuse, rate limit violations, API token lifecycle, dormant account access, and excessive MFA failures.
- Microsoft Entra IDcoreMicrosoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) integration for identity governance and access management. Teleport supports RBAC sync with Entra ID as part of its identity governance integrations.
- GitHubcoreTeleport secures GitHub access and issues short-lived credentials for GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. Teleport Identity Security monitors 26+ GitHub security events including SAML/MFA/OAuth policy changes, branch protection overrides, repository visibility changes, and secret scanning alerts.
- KubernetescoreTeleport secures access to Kubernetes clusters (SSH and kubectl access), issues workload identities for Kubernetes environments, and records all Kubernetes sessions for audit and compliance.
- SIEM Platforms (Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Panther)coreTeleport exports audit events via HTTP to Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, and Panther. Also supports long-term S3 storage with Amazon Athena queries. Teleport Identity Security unifies logs from Okta, AWS, GitHub, and Teleport into a single queryable store for these SIEM platforms.
Scale indicators11 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Teleport competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- StrongDM: Infrastructure access platform providing auditable access to databases, servers, Kubernetes, and web apps. Closely comparable to Teleport's Zero Trust Access module with overlapping target customers in tech-forward enterprises.
- Cloudflare Access: Cloudflare's Zero Trust platform includes Cloudflare Access for infrastructure access control, replacing VPNs with identity-aware proxies. Competes with Teleport for the VPN-replacement and zero-trust-access use cases.
- HashiCorp: HashiCorp's Vault (secrets management) and Boundary (infrastructure access) directly overlap with Teleport's machine identity and zero-trust access products, both targeting infrastructure engineers with credential-less access models. Now part of IBM, giving it deeper enterprise distribution.
- BeyondTrust: PAM and identity security vendor competing directly with Teleport on privileged access, remote access, and just-in-time elevation. Targets similar enterprise security and infrastructure buyer personas.
Broad incumbents
- Okta: Workforce identity leader now expanding into infrastructure and privileged access via Okta Privileged Access. Teleport integrates with Okta but competes for parts of the infrastructure identity wallet, particularly in Okta-heavy enterprise accounts.
- Microsoft Entra ID: Hyperscaler-scale identity platform providing SSO, workload identities, and increasingly infrastructure access. Bundled with the broader Microsoft enterprise stack, making it the default incumbent competitor for any Microsoft-heavy customer.
- CyberArk: Market-leading PAM vendor offering privileged access management, secrets management, and identity security. A direct competitor to Teleport in the PAM use case, though CyberArk's vault-based architecture is the legacy model Teleport positions against.
- AWS IAM Identity Center: AWS's native SSO and access management service for AWS resources. A direct integration partner but also a competitor for AWS-centric customers who may choose the bundled native option over a third-party platform.
Emerging players
- JumpCloud: Cloud directory platform providing SSO, device management, and identity governance for SMB and mid-market. Competes with Teleport at the lower end of the market, particularly where directory plus access control is purchased as a bundle.
- Pomerium: Open-source identity-aware reverse proxy providing zero-trust access to web applications and infrastructure. Like Teleport, leverages an open-source core with an enterprise tier, making it a directly comparable emerging competitor in the open-source identity-access space.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Teleport social profiles
Digital presenceTeleport compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance8 records
Teleport financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Teleport leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles8 records
Teleport funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds5 records
Investors9 records
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Teleport M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Teleport
What does Teleport do?
Teleport sells the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform, a unified software platform that provides cryptographic identity and zero trust access management for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform replaces passwords, static credentials, SSH keys, and VPNs with short-lived X.509/SSH certificates bound to hardware root-of-trust identities, offering modules for zero trust access, machine and workload identity, identity governance, and identity security. Teleport also sells the Beams trusted runtime for production AI agents and the Agentic Identity Framework for securing agentic AI deployments.
Is Teleport a public or private company?
Teleport is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Teleport founded?
Teleport was founded in 2015. It employs 101 to 250 people.
Where is Teleport based?
Teleport is headquartered in Oakland, United States, in the North America region.
How does Teleport make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Enterprise Subscription (Infrastructure Identity Platform) is the primary driver. The others are professional Services (Implementation Services) and community Edition (Freemium).
Who are Teleport's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are StrongDM, Cloudflare Access, HashiCorp and BeyondTrust. Broad incumbents are Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, CyberArk and AWS IAM Identity Center. Emerging players are JumpCloud and Pomerium.
Does Teleport have an API?
Yes. Teleport provides custom API clients for building integrations and automations. The platform supports SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) for automatic provisioning and deprovisioning of users based on identity provider changes. Teleport's tbot agent issues and renews short-lived certificates and tokens for machines and workloads, enabling programmatic authentication to infrastructure and cloud providers without static secrets. The platform also offers policy agents and developer tool APIs for extending functionality. Developer documentation is at goteleport.com/docs.
What industry is Teleport in?
Teleport's product category is Identity & Access Management / Privileged Access Management. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEAJAJ, Secrets Management & Machine Identity (API keys, certificates, workload identity), with a secondary code of HDAEANAG, Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII). Its NAICS code is 56162 and its SIC code is 7371.