Authzed
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$15.9M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$12M
Series A · Jun 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
24
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +26% in a year
Hiring now
5
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Y Combinator, General Catalyst
The money's age
Long since its last round
27 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
31/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025
Team of 24 was 19 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Dec 23, 2025
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: A kids book that introduces authorization and permissions concepts
Jun 26, 2024
Raised a round Series A $12M
Dec 8, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Google Zanzibar Through Our Eyes · 119 points
Sep 30, 2021
On the Hacker News front page SpiceDB Is Open Source · 197 points
Apr 21, 2021
Raised a round Seed $3.9M · TechCrunch
Apr 17, 2021
On the Hacker News front page Onboarding with an M1 · 165 points
Jan 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Jun 2024 | $12M | — | businesswire.com |
| Seed | Apr 2021 | $3.9M | — | TechCrunch |
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Overview
> Get $700 in AuthZed Cloud starter credits, no application required [ Learn more ] > github.com/authzed/spicedb 6980 Pricing AI Authorization Get Started Get Started Sign up for Cloud Pricing AI Authorization What's New Blog Post Jul 27 Introducing the SpiceDB Playground Assistant Blog Post Jul 27…
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AuthZed Materialize is Generally Available, Securing Agents and Applications at any Scale
By pre-computing selected transitive relationships in SpiceDB, AuthZed Materialize delivers consistent performance for the authorization logic keeping large scale AI and Enterprise workloads secure.
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Introducing the SpiceDB Playground Assistant
We've added an AI assistant to the SpiceDB Playground. It writes and edits your schema, generates relationship data and assertions to test it, runs permission checks, and explains exactly why a check was granted or denied.
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How SpiceDB Secures Authorization for AI
AI agents don't make authorization decisions. SpiceDB does. Here's how relationship graphs, consistency guarantees, caveats, and explicit delegation keep every agent action provably scoped.
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Dibs and the Magic Library
Dibs and the Magic Library is a picture book with a secret: it's a gentle introduction to how permissions work. From the creators of SpiceDB.
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AuthZed Cloud launches self-service authorization
AuthZed Cloud debuts as a self-service platform for scalable, centralized authorization - simplifying permissions management for growing businesses.
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Security Boulevard AuthZed Adds Cloud Edition of Infrastructure Authorization Platform News
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Authorization Company Targets AI Security Risks with New Infrastructure Tools
Authorization infrastructure company AuthZed has launched specialized tools to help organizations control how artificial intelligence systems access and handle sensitive data, addressing growing security concerns as AI adoption accelerates in enterprise e
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AuthZed Extends Reach of Authorization Platform to AI Agents
AuthZed this week added support for agentic AI along with use cases requiring retrieval-augmented generation platforms
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New AuthZed tools enforce permissions in RAG and agentic AI systems
New AuthZed tools enforce permissions in RAG and agentic AI systems - SiliconANGLE
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Navigating Authorization Challenges in FinTech with Jimmy Zelinskie and Pierre-Alexandre Lacerte - KubeCon Europe 2025
Guests Jimmy Zelinskie and Pierre-Alexandre Lacerte emphasize the Zanzibar paper's influence and the need for relationship-based access control. They explore...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Authzed over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
Java
Python
Go
Node JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
CockroachDB
Google Cloud Spanner
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
GCP
AWS
Azure
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29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$180k
Typical range
$160k – $195k
Open positions
4
4
Jobs
Middle
25%
Senior
75%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $160k | $160k |
| Senior | 3 | $190k | $170k – $195k |
Highest paying role
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
$195k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
5
2 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33% ▲
DevOps
33% ▲
Solutions
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Sep 2026
Added gRPC to stack
Sep 2026
Added Threat Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added IAM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Azure to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS CDK to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Go to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added RAG to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
New York
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff
Jobs
$130k – $160k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Go
Java
PostgreSQL
DevOps
gRPC
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
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≈ $112k – $206k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time
Terraform
GCP
AWS CDK
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
IAM
Linux
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
PKI
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$150k – $190k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Go
Java
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Management
Agile
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$150k – $195k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time
Python
JavaScript
Java
SQL
Ruby
Node JS
CockroachDB
Google Cloud Spanner
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Prometheus
Pulumi
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
GitHub
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$140k – $170k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
AI Agents
RAG
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