Apptega

Apptega is a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) automation platform that lets an organization build one internal control set and map it against dozens of frameworks simultaneously (SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, CMMC, GDPR, ISO 27001, and others), rather than running a separate compliance project for each standard. It tracks control ownership, evidence collection, gap remediation tasks, and audit readiness in a single workspace, and is explicitly positioned for managed security service providers (MSSPs) running compliance-as-a-service programs across many end-client environments.

Founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 2017 by Armistead Whitney, Apptega grew as a bootstrapped and lightly-funded business for several years before taking a $37 million growth investment from Mainsail Partners in March 2022 to expand its MSSP channel and enterprise sales. The company has grown to roughly 55-65 employees and reports revenue in the high single-digit millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue.

Apptega’s differentiation is the MSSP-first architecture: multi-tenant client management, white-label reporting, and cross-framework control mapping built for a partner managing compliance for dozens of clients at once, rather than a single-tenant tool retrofitted for that use case. That focus puts it in more direct competition with MSSP-oriented compliance vendors than with enterprise-first platforms like Vanta or Drata, whose core motion is direct-to-company automated evidence collection.