Cerby

Cerby addresses a specific identity security gap: the enterprise applications that fall outside the reach of a traditional identity provider because they do not support SAML/SSO, modern MFA, or SCIM-based provisioning. These “disconnected applications” are typically social media accounts, marketing tools, and long-tail SaaS that employees adopt directly, creating shadow IT that identity teams can see but cannot govern with standard IAM tooling. Cerby’s platform discovers these applications, applies automated access controls and credential rotation on top of them, and brings them into standard identity governance and reporting workflows without requiring the application vendor to natively support enterprise identity standards.

Founded in 2020 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cerby has raised more than $82 million in total funding, including a $40 million Series B round in 2025 led by DTCP Capital with participation from Okta Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures — notable in that two of its investors are also strategic identity and security platform vendors. The company has reported tripling its base of six-figure enterprise accounts and named customers including monday.com.

The identity security market has largely solved governance for applications that support modern federation standards; Cerby’s bet is that the long tail of applications that don’t will remain a persistent, underserved risk surface as SaaS sprawl continues, and that automating control over that tail is a distinct product category rather than a feature of existing IAM platforms.