VISO TRUST

What VISO TRUST does

VISO TRUST (legal entity Valente Sherman, Inc., a Delaware corporation) is a SaaS third-party cyber risk management (TPRM) company founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform helps enterprise security teams manage vendor risk across 3rd, 4th, and nth parties through AI-driven assessments, continuous monitoring, and audit-ready reporting, targeting security, GRC, and procurement leaders at enterprises that need to scale third-party due diligence without adding headcount. The underlying engine, branded Artifact Intelligence, uses document heuristics, natural language processing, machine learning, and generative AI to extract control information from vendor security artifacts (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, audit reports) in a 5-minute web session and to produce traceable risk outputs, with generative AI served via AWS Bedrock under a blanket AWS AI Data Use Opt-Out.

The product portfolio is a platform-plus-modules architecture: the core VISO TRUST Platform orchestrates the end-to-end vendor lifecycle (onboarding, assessment, continuous monitoring, reassessments, offboarding), supplemented by an Agentic TPRM module for autonomous, on-demand assessments, AI Risk Assessments, Breach/News Monitoring, Smart Summaries, Vendor Discovery for nth-party visibility, and Reporting. Native integrations with Jira, ServiceNow, Coupa, Archer, Slack, and Okta embed the platform into existing GRC, procurement, ITSM, and identity workflows; the company also achieved SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 3 (October 2023), is GDPR- and CCPA-compliant, and is pursuing ISO 27001.

VISO TRUST operates an enterprise-focused GTM combining field sales ("Contact Sales" / "Book a Demo" CTAs), a marketplace-led motion via AWS Marketplace (launched December 2025), and inside-sales expansion supported by venture funding. Revenue is generated primarily through annual quote-based SaaS subscriptions (auto-renewing with a 10% annual price-cap uplift), with optional managed services and 24/7 enterprise support add-ons. The company raised approximately $21 million across three rounds (2021 seed, March 2022 $11M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures, November 2024 strategic extension including Allstate Strategic Ventures and Cisco Investments), underwent a CEO transition in November 2025 with Corentin Le Reun appointed CEO and co-founder Paul Valente moving to Chief Customer Officer, and was acquired by Australia's Protecht Group in April 2026 with both co-founders remaining in the combined business.

Name

VISO TRUST

Legal name

Valente Sherman, Inc.

Website

https://visotrust.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

VISO TRUST is an AI-powered SaaS third-party cyber risk management platform that helps enterprise security teams assess, continuously monitor, and report on vendor cyber risk across 3rd, 4th, and nth parties, using proprietary Artifact Intelligence AI to automate due diligence and audit-ready reporting.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Third-Party Cyber Risk Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Third-Party/Vendor Risk Management (TPRM/VRM) (HDADAIAE)

Keywords

• Third-party risk management
• Vendor risk management
• Cyber risk management
• TPRM platform
• AI security assessments

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription Licensing: Recurring SaaS license fees paid by Licensee per the SOW/Quote, with auto-renewal terms, annual price cap of 10% inflation adjustment, and suspension of access if payments lapse.
2. Managed Services / Professional Services: Optional managed services offering to help organizations accelerate TPRM program maturity or supplement internal teams with assessment execution while maintaining technology ownership.
3. Enterprise Support Add-on: Optional enterprise support purchased via separate SOW or digital quote, providing 24/7/365 availability and 24-hour response times (business days) on top of standard email support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Core offering

VISO TRUST sells a SaaS third-party cyber risk management platform that uses AI (Artifact Intelligence) to automate vendor security due diligence, assessment, continuous monitoring, and reassessment across 3rd, 4th, and nth parties. The product replaces questionnaire-driven TPRM with AI-extracted evidence from vendor security artifacts and adds agentic AI for autonomous assessments, dynamic inherent/residual risk scoring, and native integrations into Jira, ServiceNow, Coupa, Archer, Slack, and Okta.

Product overview

VISO TRUST offers a single unified AI-powered third-party risk management (TPRM) platform, delivered as SaaS Software and powered by its underlying engine called Artifact Intelligence. The platform follows a platform-plus-modules architecture: the core VISO TRUST Platform orchestrates end-to-end vendor risk management (onboarding, assessment, continuous monitoring, reassessments, offboarding), with add-on modules and features layered on top — most notably Agentic TPRM (agentic AI for autonomous vendor assessments), AI Risk Assessments, Breach/News Monitoring, Smart Summaries, Vendor Discovery (for nth-party visibility), and Reporting. Together these named products and features enable enterprises to automate third-party cyber due diligence, replacing traditional questionnaire-driven TPRM with AI-driven, evidence-backed, continuously monitored vendor intelligence that scales without adding headcount.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Artifact Intelligence: The proprietary AI engine powering the VISO TRUST third-party cyber risk management platform that automates due diligence and conducts automated risk assessments.

Products and services

• VISO TRUST Platform Core SaaS product — an AI-powered third-party risk management platform that helps enterprise security teams manage vendor risk across 3rd, 4th, and nth parties in one place, with faster onboarding, AI-enabled assessments, continuous monitoring, and audit-ready reporting.
• Agentic TPRM Add-on agentic AI module within the VISO TRUST Platform that runs AI-enabled assessments for new vendors and critical changes automatically, providing consistent control coverage with traceable outputs (what failed, where it was found, what to do next).
• Managed Services / Professional Services Optional managed services offering to help organizations accelerate TPRM program maturity or supplement internal teams with assessment execution while the customer retains technology ownership of the VISO TRUST platform.
• Enterprise Support Add-on Optional enterprise support tier purchased via separate SOW or digital quote, providing 24/7/365 availability and 24-hour response times on business days on top of the standard 48-hour email support included with the SaaS subscription.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability10 records

Feature6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• SecurityScorecard: SecurityScorecard is a leading security ratings and TPRM platform providing vendor risk assessments, continuous monitoring, and questionnaire automation. It directly competes with VISO TRUST across the third-party cyber risk management use case, especially in mid-market and enterprise segments.
• Whistic: Whistic is a TPRM platform focused on proactive vendor security sharing, AI-powered assessments, and Trust Catalog, competing directly with VISO TRUST in mid-market enterprise TPRM procurement workflows.
• Panorays: Panorays offers AI-driven third-party security risk management including automated questionnaires, external attack surface assessment, and continuous monitoring. It is a direct competitor to VISO TRUST, particularly in mid-market and enterprise TPRM.
• Prevalent: Prevalent (now part of Genpact/ThirdPartyTrust) provides TPRM software for vendor assessments, risk intelligence, and compliance monitoring. It competes with VISO TRUST across the vendor lifecycle, particularly for compliance-driven buyers.
• ProcessUnity: ProcessUnity is a TPRM workflow platform that automates vendor onboarding, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring for regulated enterprises. It overlaps directly with VISO TRUST's lifecycle automation and is a frequent head-to-head competitor in enterprise evaluations.
• Bitsight: Bitsight is a security ratings and TPRM platform offering continuous monitoring, vendor risk assessments, and cyber risk quantification. It competes head-to-head with VISO TRUST for enterprise TPRM budgets and shares the same buyer (CISO/GRC leader).

Broad incumbents

• RiskRecon (Mastercard): RiskRecon, a Mastercard company, delivers cyber risk ratings and TPRM services as part of Mastercard's broader cybersecurity portfolio. It is a comparable incumbent in vendor risk monitoring though now part of a much larger payments ecosystem.
• ServiceNow GRC/IRM: ServiceNow's Integrated Risk Management (IRM) and TPRM modules offer enterprise vendor risk workflows as part of a broader GRC and workflow platform. It overlaps with VISO TRUST for large enterprise buyers already standardized on ServiceNow.
• OneTrust: OneTrust is a broad privacy, security, and GRC platform that includes TPRM capabilities as part of a wider trust intelligence suite. It competes with VISO TRUST as an established incumbent with much larger scale and broader functionality beyond pure-play TPRM.
• Archer (Regnology/RSA): Archer is a long-established enterprise risk management and TPRM platform used by large regulated enterprises. It overlaps with VISO TRUST at the enterprise TPRM workflow layer, especially for buyers with existing Archer deployments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/visotrust

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors9 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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