Startup profile for Teleport: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Teleport funding, valuation and investors

Identity-based secure access to servers, Kubernetes, databases, and internal apps.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series C

$110M · May 2022

Latest known valuation

$1.1B

Series C · May 2022

Total disclosed equity funding

$110M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · Oakland, California, USA

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Bessemer Venture Partners

Other: Insight Partners , Kleiner Perkins

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Teleport (formerly Gravitational) provides identity-based infrastructure access — unifying secure connectivity to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and internal web applications without legacy VPNs. Founded by Sasha Klokach and team, Teleport raised a $110M Series C in May 2022 led by Bessemer Venture Partners at $1.1B valuation, with Insight Partners and Kleiner Perkins participating. Andreessen Horowitz backed from early rounds. The company reports strong ARR growth and Fortune 500 adoption for zero-trust infrastructure access.

Why Teleport is interesting

Teleport replaced VPNs and shared SSH keys for infra access — Bessemer-led $110M Series C at $1.1B as ARR grew 2.8x with a16z from seed.

Product & use cases

Teleport replaces VPNs and shared credentials with certificate-based, identity-aware access to infrastructure — with session recording, RBAC, and audit logs.

  • Engineers accessing production Kubernetes without shared kubeconfig keys
  • DBA secure access to PostgreSQL/MySQL with full audit trail
  • Compliance-driven session recording for SOC 2 and FedRAMP environments

Key facts

  • Series C (May 2022): $110M at $1.1B led by Bessemer (PR Newswire)
  • ARR grew 2.8x YoY at Series C announcement
  • Identity-based access replacing VPNs for cloud-native teams
  • a16z, Kleiner, Insight among earlier backers

Funding history (newest first)

Series C

2022-05 $110M Valuation: $1.1B

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teleport-raises-110m-series-c-at-1-1b-valuation-301542345.html

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Teleport's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz Bessemer Venture Partners Insight Partners Kleiner Perkins

Competitive landscape

Edge: Unified access plane for servers, K8s, DBs, and apps — reduces tool sprawl versus separate VPN, PAM, and bastion products.

Zero-trust infrastructure access is crowded as VPN fatigue grows. Teleport wins on developer UX and unified protocol coverage; must compete with platform bundling from cloud providers.

  • Cloudflare Access / Zero Trust direct

    Zero-trust network access; broader CDN platform.

  • HashiCorp Boundary direct

    Dynamic infrastructure access; HashiCorp stack integration.

  • Traditional VPN (Cisco, Palo Alto) incumbent

    Legacy remote access; Teleport argues identity-native replacement.

Notable stories

  • Teleport's founders open-sourced gravitational tooling before commercializing unified access — Bessemer's $1.1B valuation bet that every engineering org would drop VPNs for identity-native infra access.

Industries

Cybersecurity Infrastructure & Cloud Developer Tools

FAQs about Teleport

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Teleport provides secure, identity-based access to servers, Kubernetes, databases, and internal applications.
Bessemer led Series C; a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and Insight Partners also invested. See /fund/bessemer-venture-partners and /fund/andreessen-horowitz.
Teleport uses short-lived certificates and identity policies instead of network-level VPN tunnels.
May 2022 — $110M at $1.1B valuation.
Teleport has open-source roots; enterprise features are commercial.
$1.1B at May 2022 Series C.
Yes — Kubernetes access is a core use case with audit and RBAC.
Not publicly disclosed; growth-stage security infrastructure company.
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