
Authorization is a challenge for everyone, but has been solved by no one. Oso is authorization as a service. It provides abstractions for building and iterating on authorization in your application.

Authorization is a challenge for everyone, but has been solved by no one. Oso is authorization as a service. It provides abstractions for building and iterating on authorization in your application.
What they do: Authorization-as-a-service: policy engine (Polar) plus Oso Cloud for fine-grained app and agent authorization
Founded: 2019
Founders / leadership: Graham Neray (Co-founder, CEO) and Sam Scott (Co-founder, CTO)
Employees: Approximately 84
Total funding: $10.9M (reported) / $10,943,999 (company snapshot)
| Company |
|---|
Application and agent authorization (RBAC/ReBAC/ABAC/least-privilege enforcement)
2019
Software Development
$2.7M
Seed round reported in 2019
$8.2M
Series A led by Sequoia
$15M
Company referenced a $15M Series A-1
“Sequoia Capital and Felicis named among lead/backing investors; other investors reported include Harpoon Ventures, Highland, SV Angel and multiple angel/infrastructure founders”