# Descope

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/descope

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Los Altos, US
- Website: www.descope.com
- Total disclosed funding: $88M
- Latest round: Seed (Oct 1, 2025)
- Investors on record: 10

## About

Based in California, US, and founded in 2022 by its CEO Slavik Markovich, and co-founders Dan Sarel, Rishi Bhargava and Guy Rinat, Descope Inc. operates as a code authentication company that enables developers to add authentication, user management, and authorization capabilities. In October 2025, Descope Inc. raised USD 35 million in seed funding from returning investors Cerca Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Triventures, and Unusual Ventures, with participation from other unspecified investors. The round was part of a larger USD 88 million seed funding.

Descope Inc. offers an authentication and user management platform with tenant management, user management, role-based access control, SCIM, management SDK, and step-up for sensitive actions that allow organizations to create authentication flows and user-facing screens using a visual workflow designer, add a variety of passwordless authentication methods to apps such as magic links, biometrics (based on WebAuthn), authenticator apps, and social logins, validate, merge, and manage identities across the user journey, prevent account takeover fraud, session theft, credential stuffing, and bot attacks on login pages, and enhance user protection by enabling multiple factor authentication (MFA), step-up, or biometric authentication within applications. 

The company generates revenue by selling its product on pro, and enterprise subscription basis. 

The company will use the October 2025 funding to develop agentic identity tools, expand to new regions, and hire across engineering, product, and customer experience teams.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Oct 1, 2025, $35M — Lightspeed Venture Partners, Triventures, Cerca Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Unusual Ventures, Notable Capital
- Seed, Feb 15, 2023, $53M — Lightspeed Venture Partners, Granite Asia, Cerca Partners, TechAviv, Dell Technologies Capital, Unusual Ventures, Analog Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments

## Investors

- Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/lightspeed-venture-partners) — Seed
- Granite Asia (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/granite-asia) — Seed
- Cerca Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/cerca-partners) — Seed
- TechAviv (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/techaviv) — Seed
- Dell Technologies Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/dell-technologies-capital) — Seed
- Unusual Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/unusual-ventures) — Seed
- Analog Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/analog-ventures) — Seed
- Silicon Valley CISO Investments (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/silicon-valley-ciso-investments) — Seed
- Triventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/triventures) — Seed
- Notable Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/notable-capital) — Seed