C1
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Identity Management
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$70M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$65M
Venture round · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Hiring now
10
open roles
Backers
5
Greycroft, Accel
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
25/100
a new city, 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
Sep 10, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $65M · SEC Form D
Nov 2, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $5M · SEC Form D
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.86%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 3 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2025 | $65M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Nov 2020 | $5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | ConductorOne, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Paul QuernaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Alexander BoveeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Greycroft 
Accel 
Felicis 
Glynn Capital 
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How C1 hires
Truth index
B 70/100
Ghost roles
50%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
C1 scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 50% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
C1, formerly known as ConductorOne, develops an identity security platform for security and IT teams. Its software automates access reviews, just-in-time provisioning and least-privilege access across cloud and on-premises applications, giving organisations visibility into who can access which systems. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
News
You Can't Govern the AI Agents You Can't Find
AI agents are already running in your environment, authenticating like service accounts and multiplying faster than any review cycle. How to find them and assign ownership that survives turnover.
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What Would You Do Monday? Here's the Actual Answer.
C1's Field CISO on the 90-day agentic AI blueprint - five concrete moves your existing people can make starting Monday, the order that matters (telemetry before policy), what 12 months actually looks like quarter by quarter, and the three questions that t
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C1.ai is now available in Europe
European customers can now run C1.ai with tenant data held in the EU. The C1.ai EU instance runs in AWS Frankfurt, with Ireland serving as the disaster-recovery region.
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Security Isn't the Brake on Your Agentic Migration. It's the Engine.
Our Field CISO on why security makes agentic speed survivable - the shift from identity to agency, the four substrate primitives (identity-aware proxy, credential vaulting, scope minimization, first-class revocation), and the one invariant that never move
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Your Engineers Are Building the Same Agent Twelve Times. Here's How to Stop It.
Our Field CISO on the producer/consumer flywheel - the six asset classes that flow through an internal agent marketplace, why reuse is a good outcome but a bad goal, the deprecation ritual that keeps the marketplace credible, and what federation actually
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Anatomy of a decoy: what happens when someone uses a stolen credential
A decoy credential looks exactly like a real one and belongs to no workload, so using it is unambiguous. Here is the path a request takes through C1.ai when someone tries a planted decoy: what the caller gets back, and the critical finding that lands on y
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Six Domains, One Control Plane: Mapping C1.ai to SACR's ARMCF
SACR's AI and Agentic Risk Management and Control Framework (ARMCF) applies a NIST CSF-style lifecycle to AI agents. Here is how C1.ai maps to all six domains: GOVERN, IDENTIFY, PROTECT, DETECT, RESPOND, and RECOVER.
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C1 Deploy: Onboarding that does the setup for you
Most identity deployments begin with a long setup project. Ours begins with a question: what are you trying to get done first? Pick a goal, connect a directory, and C1 AI builds the plan from your live environment and runs the setup work for you, with eve
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The Most Important AI Meeting You'll Have This Quarter Costs Nothing
Our Field CISO on the ADAPT phase - the one honest executive meeting that starts an agentic AI program, the failure graveyard worth naming out loud, the permanent tension between control and reuse, and the four written outputs including kill criteria for
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How IS NULL broke our query plan estimates in Postgres
Our query generator emitted the same deleted_at IS NULL clause more than once, and Postgres multiplied the selectivity of every copy. The row estimate collapsed, the planner picked the wrong plan, and a 293ms query took 50 seconds. Here's the bug, and the
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at C1 over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
30
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python21%
Go7%
Rust7%
SQL7%
Cloud & platforms
Zscaler71%
DigitalOcean43%
AWS43%
GCP29%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$100k – $250k
Open positions
10
5
Jobs
Junior
20%
Senior
80%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $200k | $200k |
| Senior | 4 | $200k | $195k – $210k |
Highest paying role
Software Engineer
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at C1
By role, level and city, against the market · 10 jobs with pay
People
Paul Querna
Executive Officer, Director
Alexander Bovee
Executive Officer, Director
Marcie Vu
Director
Ping Li
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
10
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
56 days
faster than 25% of the market
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.
Product
29% ▼
Solutions
29% ▼
DevOps
14% ▼
Security
14% ▲
Support
14% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United Kingdom
Sep 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Sep 2026
Added LDAP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Threat Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added Service Mesh to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rust to stack
Sep 2026
Added Platform Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
Added Istio to stack
Sep 2026
Added ISO 27001 to stack
Sep 2026
Added Envoy to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 40% engineering $192k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Security, Product
620 Folsom St. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 33% remote $217k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Security, Sales
Portland
United States
Engineering / R&D
Portland
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $233k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Security
1300 SE Stark Street, Suite 106, Portland, OR 97214
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