Vanta Secures Spot on 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 for Agentic Trust Innovation

Recognition marks Vanta’s second appearance on the list, reflecting its accelerated growth and category leadership

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vanta, the leading Agentic Trust Platform, today announced it has been named to the 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list. Now in its fourteenth year, CNBC's annual list highlights the most promising venture-backed companies disrupting their industries. The ranking is a testament to Vanta's accelerated growth and leadership in security and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and follows the company’s inclusion on the list in 2023.

As AI transforms how companies build, sell, and prove they can be trusted, Vanta’s Agentic Trust Platform is leading a shift from point-in-time checks to continuous risk monitoring and verification, ensuring companies have a holistic view of their risk profile and potential threat vectors. Today, more than 16,000 organizations, including 60% of companies on the Forbes AI 50, rely on Vanta to earn and prove trust.

“Trust is the defining problem of the AI era, and companies that build trust grow faster,” said Christina Cacioppo, CEO, Vanta. ”We’re grateful to CNBC for the recognition of the critical role Vanta plays in businesses earning and proving trust. It’s a reflection of the work that our team does each day with our over 16,000 customers around the world.”

Last month, Vanta announced surpassing $300 million ARR, growing 63% year-over-year and tripling annual recurring revenue in two years. Companies of all sizes use Vanta to strengthen and automate their compliance programs - they typically onboard with anywhere between 5 and 30 existing policies and an average of 20 controls per policy. The Vanta Agent, which has grown its user base by 253% in the last three quarters, manages those policies by proactively guiding them through key workflows and taking action on their behalf, continuously scanning programs for inconsistencies and issues and recommending fixes. Customers from fast-moving AI startups like Harvey, Lovable and Cursor to enterprises like Atlassian, Samsara and Snowflake rely on Vanta to manage compliance, third-party risk, audits and questionnaires, all in one place.

Vanta raised its Series D at a $4.15B valuation in July 2025 to accelerate its AI innovation and expansion into new areas like third-party risk and public sector compliance. Recently, Vanta Government Cloud received its FedRAMP 20x Moderate Authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) Program Management Office (PMO), solidifying Vanta as a key partner in federal cybersecurity modernization, and the company also donated the Autonomous Action Runtime Management system category specification to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). Authored by Vanta, AARM is the first open specification defining how autonomous AI agents should be governed at runtime, establishing a shared industry standard for monitoring, controlling and auditing agent behavior as agentic AI moves into production environments.

To date, Vanta has raised more than $500 million in funding. This year’s CNBC Disruptor 50 Award follows several industry accolades, including being named the #1 GRC Product in G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards, recognized in G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards overall rankings, and named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Vendor Assessment 2025. For the full 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, visit: https://www.cnbc.com/cnbc-disruptors.

About Vanta

Vanta is the leading Agentic Trust Platform, setting the standard for how businesses earn and prove trust as AI reshapes security and compliance. Over 16,000 companies like Snowflake, GitHub, Ramp, Cursor, Golden State Warriors, and Icelandair rely on Vanta to guide, automate, and improve the GRC work that trust is built on.