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Funding and backers

Total raised
$26M
1 round on record
Latest round
$26M
Venture round · Apr 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
The money's age
Long since its last round
53 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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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
Jul 29, 2025 Partnership Smallstep and Jamf Partner to Deliver Hardware-Backed Device Identity for Enterprise Managed Apple Fleets · manilatimes.net Apr 16, 2025 Recognition Smallstep Selected as Top 10 Finalist for RSAC 2025 Conference 20th Annual Innovation Sandbox Contest · businesswire.com Apr 27, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $26M
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
59 public repositories
Hacker News stories
61
best: 770 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Apr 2022 $26M — businesswire.com
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Overview

Secure devices, enforce Zero Trust and simplify cryptography with Smallstep's unified platform for device identity and certificates.

News

News Morten Linderud 7 months ago
ACME device attestation, smallstep and pkcs11: attezt
For my personal home infrastructure I've been using step-ca to have aninternal ACME server for issuing TLS certificates for my .home.arpa domain. Ialso intended to use this to sign ssh certificates so I could simplify my SSHkey setup.And i really like har
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News smallsteplabs 8 months ago
Your Device Identity Is Probably a Liability
The NCSC requires unique, verifiable device identity for Zero Trust. Most organizations think certificates cover it. Here's why that assumption is a liability.
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Smallstep and Jamf Partner to Deliver Hardware-Backed Device Identity for Enterprise Managed Apple Fleets
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Smallstep, the leader in cryptographic device identity, today announced a strategic partnership with Jamf, the complete platform for managing and securing Apple-first environments. Together, the companies a
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News smallsteplabs 1 year ago
Trusted Device Inventory for Jamf
Lock down Jamf MDM enrollment to only verified company-owned devices with Smallstep's next-gen device identity.
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News smallsteplabs 2 years ago
You shouldn't run NSA-grade Wi-Fi at home. Here's how to do it
For our 2023 holiday project, we're setting up an WPA3 Enterprise certificate-authenticated Wi-Fi network at home! And when your family from out of town asks to "jump on the Wi-Fi real quick," you'll learn why this type of network is such a hassle to mana
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News smallsteplabs 3 years ago
Access your homelab from anywhere with a YubiKey and mutual TLS
By combining YubiKey's smart card support with mutual TLS client certificates, hardware-bound private keys, and device attestation, you can expose your homelab to the internet in a way that carries very low security risk.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Smallstep over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
10
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
70/100
Languages
Bash
Go
Cloud & platforms
GitHub Actions
Linux
Windows
Developer tools
Terraform
Git
Practices & domains
VPN
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~12 hours
09/30/2026
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.
Solutions
100% ▼

Jobs

$185k – $230k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
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Financials

Total raised
$26M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $26M Details