Descope
Descope provides a customer and agentic identity platform for authentication and authorization.
- Based in
- Los Altos, United States
- Founded
- 2022
- Ownership
- Private
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP High, CSA STAR Level 2, PCI DSS
About Descope
Descope provides a customer and agentic identity platform. It sells a no-code customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that helps organisations build authentication and authorisation journeys for their users, partners, and AI agents. The platform is used by startups, growth-stage companies, and large enterprises, including Fortune 500 firms. The company's platform uses visual workflows, SDKs, and APIs to create and customise identity journeys. It supports passwordless authentication, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and fine-grained authorisation. Descope also offers identity federation, user and tenant management, and connectors to third-party tools. It emphasises speed of setup and flexibility, allowing changes without redeploying applications.
Products
- Descope FlowsA drag-and-drop visual editor for building authentication and user journey workflows.
- Descope Client SDKsSoftware development kits for integrating passwordless authentication into frontend applications.
- Descope Backend SDKsSoftware development kits for connecting application servers to Descope's service.
- Descope REST APIAn API for building authentication while managing implementation details directly.
- SSO Setup SuiteA guided user interface for configuring SAML or OIDC identity providers and SCIM provisioning.
- Admin PortalA hosted, brandable experience for tenant administrators to manage identity settings.
Ownership and deals
- Raised $35m in a seed roundInvestors Cerca Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Triventures and 1 moreReport on the Descope funding round of October 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- Raised $53m in a seed roundInvestor GGV CapitalReport on the Descope funding round of February 2023 (opens in a new tab)
Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. Funding rounds from 2022 onwards come from Return on Security's weekly Security, Funded newsletter. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.