Valence Security

Primary category: sspm.

One-liner — A SaaS (and increasingly AI) security platform that discovers SaaS/AI app usage, finds and prioritizes posture risk, and emphasizes collaborative, business-user-driven remediation so security teams aren’t the only ones fixing misconfigurations.

Categories — sspm

What it does

Valence connects via API to an organization’s SaaS apps, inventories SaaS and AI usage (including shadow apps and OAuth integrations), and identifies risks across misconfigurations, identities, third-party integrations, and data sharing. Its signature angle is remediation workflow: routing fixes to the relevant app owners/business users (not just dumping findings on the security team) to actually close risks. It now layers in AI Security Posture Management (governing AI tools and agents) and ITDR (identity-based threat detection/response across SaaS).

Where it sits in the stack

Sits in sspm (foundation layer), spanning SaaS discovery, SSPM, AI-SPM, and ITDR. Its main risk role is protecting sensitive data (reducing SaaS/AI data exposure and over-broad integrations). The newer AI-SPM/discovery features make it directly relevant to shadow-AI inventory — a growing reason a fund might look at this layer.

Deployment & architecture

SaaS-delivered; API/OAuth integrations into target SaaS and AI apps (no inline proxy or endpoint agent for core function). Supports 175+ SaaS/AI applications (vendor claim). Remediation routing integrates with collaboration/ticketing so app owners receive and action fixes.

Positioning & differentiators

Known for the “collaborative remediation” / SaaS-mesh-risk framing (third-party app-to-app integration risk) and an early pivot to AI/agentic-era security messaging (treat “Leader in SaaS and AI Security” as marketing). Smaller and later-stage-funded than appomni and obsidian-security. Nearest neighbors: appomni (enterprise posture/data-access depth), obsidian-security (identity threat detection), grip-security (SaaS/identity discovery-led), adaptive-shield (CrowdStrike), wing-security, reco, nudge-security, docontrol.

Ownership, funding & M&A

Independent, venture-backed. Founded 2021 (exited stealth 2021) by Yoni Shohet (CEO) and Shlomi Matichin (CTO); Israeli R&D roots (Tel Aviv) with a US presence (South San Francisco, CA — per third-party profiles; not stated on the vendor company page). Funding: $7M Seed (2021, led by YL Ventures) and a $25M Series A led by M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), announced 2022-10-26, with YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai, Alumni Ventures, and angel Michael Fey — ~$32M total. No acquisition found as of 2026-06-28 — ownership_confidence: high that it remains independent. (Seed registry asked to confirm “independent?” — confirmed independent.)

CTO / hedge-fund lens

Day-2. Like its peers, it secures SaaS a fund already runs; the differentiated draw for a lean shop is the remediation routing (less security-team toil) and the shadow-SaaS/AI discovery. Fit is medium: a smaller, SaaS-heavy fund worried about ungoverned third-party app and AI-tool connections may find the discovery + delegated-remediation model a good match; deep-pocketed enterprises may prefer the larger incumbents. Supports data-governance/access-review evidence; not directly an SR 11-7 model-risk control, though AI-SPM features touch AI-tool governance.

Competitors / alternatives

appomni, obsidian-security, grip-security, adaptive-shield, wing-security, reco, nudge-security, docontrol

Open questions / to verify

• Whether any funding round has closed since the 2022 Series A; current total beyond ~$32M.
• Definitive current HQ split (Tel Aviv R&D vs US office) — vendor page omits both.
• Maturity of AI-SPM/agentic-security features vs. peers.

Sources

• Our Story, Leadership, and Investors (vendor company page) — fetched 2026-06-28 — supports: founders, investors, independent ownership, SSPM/AI-SPM/ITDR/discovery scope; confidence: high (primary, vendor tone).
• Valence Security Announces $25M Series A (vendor press release; corroborated by TechCrunch/SecurityWeek/BusinessWire) — fetched 2026-06-28 — supports: $25M Series A led by M12 (2022-10-26), $7M Seed (2021), ~$32M total, founded 2021; confidence: high.

History

• [2026-06-28] Stub created from seed registry.
• [2026-06-28] Researched; confirmed independent (no acquisition), founded 2021 by Yoni Shohet/Shlomi Matichin, Tel Aviv/SSF, ~$32M total ($25M Series A led by M12, 2022; $7M Seed 2021). Set ownership_confidence high, status researched.