SafeBase
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
SafeBase was a San Francisco trust center platform founded in 2020 by Al Yang and Adar Arnon after meeting at Harvard Business School, and incubated by Y Combinator. It streamlined software security reviews: AI models trained on security documentation automatically read, interpreted and answered security questionnaires that organizations kick off before buying new software, while a rules engine managed customer access and dashboards showed analytics on the company's security posture. It had over 1,000 customers including LinkedIn, Palantir and CrowdStrike, and raised $53.1 million.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Acquisition
SafeBase was acquired.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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