The TechCrunch Live Podcast

How to Scale Without Venture Capital with Vanta and Sequoia

Episode Summary

This week, TechCrunch Security Editor, Zack Whittaker, interviewed Sequoia partner Andrew Reed and Christina Cacioppo, co-founder and CEO of Vanta. The trio discussed why startups should focus on compliance early, the value of making SOC 2 easy and low-cost for companies, and what VCs are looking for in compliance-focused companies.

Episode Notes

This week, TechCrunch’s top security editor Zack Whittaker interviewed  Sequoia partner Andrew Reed and Christina Cacioppo, co-founder and CEO of Vanta. Cacioppo started Vanta in 2016 has taken on the important work of compliance and security automation, closing its Series B in October 2022. 

On today's episode, we talked about:

As always, Matt Burns closed out the show with questions from the audience and a round of Pitch Practice. Don't forget - you can watch the full interview on our YouTube channel and stay tuned for more TechCrunch Live!

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