Small Step

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Small Step, Inc.

19 Investors
Cybersecurity and Identity Management
MENLO PARK, CA

Smallstep specializes in securely identifying and authenticating devices, services, and machines within distributed systems and cloud environments. Their innovative solutions facilitate the implementation of zero trust security models, enhancing the integrity and confidentiality of communications across diverse infrastructures.

Products & Team

Automated Certificate Management Platform

Certificate ManagementSeed

An advanced platform that simplifies the issuance and management of digital certificates across an organization’s infrastructure, ensuring robust end-to-end encryption. This tool is geared towards enhancing security protocols in complex distributed environments.

Value Proposition

By streamlining certificate management, Smallstep enables organizations to implement secure machine-to-machine communications and effectively manage access to sensitive resources, significantly reducing security risks.

Pain Points

Challenges include securing access to sensitive data, ensuring secure communications between microservices, and authenticating IoT devices and edge computing nodes.

Certificate Authority (CA) for issuing and managing certificatesAutomated certificate lifecycle management toolsIntegration with hardware security modules and device attestation
Industry
Other Technology
Primary business sector
Founded
2025
Year established
Location
MENLO PARK, CA
Primary headquarters

Funding History

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Other Offering

November 2024
Unknown Amount
No Funding Limit
Use of Proceeds
Some funds will be used to pay salaries of the officers starting in Jan/Feb of 2025. Exact amount to depend on total raised in the round, but somewhere around $180,000 split between 3 founders with 15% for benefits.