Common Fate

Common Fate builds identity and access security for cloud-native engineering teams. Its platform provides just-in-time, time-bound privileged access to AWS and GCP production accounts, row-level database access control, Terraform-based policy-as-code, and an “Identity Risk Index” assessment, with optional bring-your-own-cloud deployment so customer data never leaves the customer’s own cloud account.

The Sydney, Australia-based company was founded by former cybersecurity and cloud-platform consultants and is best known in developer circles for Granted, its open-source, MIT-licensed CLI tool for securely switching between AWS roles and accounts from the terminal — a project that has become a de facto standard for teams managing multiple AWS accounts and is still being actively maintained. The commercial platform grew out of that open-source work. Common Fate raised a $3.1 million seed round led by Work Bench, with Haystack and Essence VC participating.

Its differentiation is building a commercial access-governance product on top of a genuinely adopted open-source developer tool, rather than selling a closed platform from day one — a bottom-up, developer-trust model similar to HashiCorp’s early playbook. The company is small and has not disclosed funding or named enterprise customers publicly since its seed round, so real-world scale remains unverified.