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SGNL

Acquired Exited San Francisco

Enterprise platform purpose-built for Continuous Identity.

Domain
Cybersecurity - Modern Authentication
Current status
Exited
Date partnered
January 2025
HQ
San Francisco
Investors
Brightmind Ventures, Costanoa Ventures
Milestones
2021 - SGNL founded by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson
2022 - Public launch $12M seed round announced
2023 - M12 ecosystem partnerships
2025 - $30M Series A raised - Brightmind Partners Led
2025 - Launch of MCP Gateway for secure AI agent access
2026 - Exit - Crowdstrike Acquisition - 740M
About

SGNL is the only enterprise platform purpose-built for Continuous Identity—trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide to eliminate standing access to cloud environments, code, and critical applications. SGNL delivers continuous, context-aware protection for sensitive data, infrastructure, cloud workloads, and applications, and now extends that protection to AI through the SGNL MCP Security Gateway—enforcing real-time policies on AI agent actions. By centralizing context, real-time enforcement, and enterprise-wide orchestration through open standards like CAEP and the Shared Signals Framework, SGNL enables Zero Standing Privilege across the entire identity footprint and makes Zero Trust an operational reality.

Leadership

The operators.

Scott Kriz

Scott Kriz

Co-Founder
Erik Gustavson

Erik Gustavson

Co-Founder