AuthZed, a company helping enterprises rapidly build user experiences with simple, fast, and secure permissions systems, announced it has closed $12 million in funding led by General Catalyst with continued participation from Work-Bench, Y Combinator, and Amplify Partners. This Series A funding round brings AuthZed’s total amount raised to $15.8 million.
This new funding round will accelerate a strategic expansion for small–to mid-market-sized organizations, offering a fully managed and easy-to-deploy permissions system that is simple to maintain for their current and future authorization needs. This new offering will provide the same strong benefits of AuthZed’s private SaaS while providing a self-service model built on a shared infrastructure.
The complexity of user interactions in modern applications strains traditional authorization approaches, leading to security vulnerabilities and bottlenecking development teams. AuthZed offers a universal, fast, scalable, and easy-to-use solution. AuthZed’s enterprise-ready permissions systems, built on their open-source project SpiceDB, enabling application teams to implement fine-grained access control, ensuring only authorized users can access specific data and features.
Under the hood of AuthZed’s product lineup is SpiceDB, which was developed by the AuthZed team. And SpiceDB is the first open-source project to incorporate all three core design principles from Google’s Zanzibar paper: strong consistency, global replication, and a relationship-based permissions model. Since its debut in 2021, SpiceDB has consistently introduced new features to enhance the intuitiveness and broad applicability of permissions systems.
Last year, AuthZed achieved 6 times growth in ARR, underscoring its commitment to adaptability and comprehensive systems design tailored to meet evolving customer demands. And the company serves a diverse clientele spanning healthcare, finance, and gaming, and it counts Canva, a global leader in online design and visual communication, among its esteemed partners. The company exemplifies a commitment to customer loyalty through in-depth collaborations with Turo, HackerRank, Clear Street, Evisort, SpotAI, and Avise.
KEY QUOTES:
“Authorization stands as the bedrock of any application, and its complexity continues to grow alongside the evolution of software. Jake, Joey, and Jimmy have created what we believe is a powerful solution for permissions management that is evident in AuthZed’s growing enterprise customer base.”
- Mark Crane, partner at General Catalyst
“This funding will help our team continue to support our customers to add meaningful user experiences to their products powered by our scalable and flexible permissions system architecture. Behind every digital interaction lies a permission: negotiating access decisions between entities. Federation is a fundamental part of what makes the internet an interesting place, and helping our customers’ end users securely share their most sensitive information with confidence and precision drives us forward.”
- Jake Moshenko, CEO at AuthZed
“AuthZed has enabled Canva to centrally store and compute permissions at scale, across a diverse set of systems, saving a substantial amount of engineering time to focus on business needs.”
- Simon Newton, Head of Platform at Canva
