BigID

About BigID

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by BigID

All products by BigID reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

BigIDAI Security

Sensitive data discovery, security, and AI governance for enterprise environments

Free7.7/10

How Our Review Panel Scores BigID

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed BigID's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.9 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who BigID competes with, and how they differ.

OneTrust7.6/10

OneTrust is workflow-centric for privacy operations (consent, DSAR automation, PIAs, vendor risk) across 7,500+ customers, while BigID is data-centric, built around ML-driven discovery and classification of sensitive data in unstructured and legacy sources that OneTrust's scanners cover less deeply.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Securiti

Securiti markets a unified "Data+AI Command Center" spanning DSPM, privacy automation, consent and LLM/AI governance, competing head-on with BigID's own platform; independent comparisons put Securiti ahead on documented feature breadth, while BigID differentiates on classifier depth (1,500+ classifiers) and hybrid/mainframe reach.

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Varonis

Varonis (Nasdaq: VRNS) is security-first, correlating data sensitivity with identity, permissions and behavior to actively enforce least privilege and detect threats, versus BigID's privacy-and-governance-first approach, which discovers and classifies exposure but is lighter on automated remediation and behavioral detection.

Cyera7.6/10

Cyera is a cloud-native, agentless DSPM pure-play that maps multi-cloud data estates in days via its DataDNA classification engine, while BigID additionally covers on-prem, legacy and mainframe data stores that Cyera's cloud-only architecture does not reach.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

DataGrail7.8/10

DataGrail is a narrower DSAR- and consent-automation specialist with 2,000+ pre-built SaaS integrations aimed at mid-market privacy teams, versus BigID's broader (and pricier, roughly $80K-$200K+/yr) enterprise data-discovery and risk-analytics platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in BigID's history, with sources.

1. May 26, 2026Milestone

   Cuts ~150 jobs (23% of workforce) in AI-first restructuring

   BigID laid off roughly 150 employees, about 23% of its 650-person global workforce, with 20-30 of the cuts at its Tel Aviv development center; co-founder/CPO Nimrod Vax framed it as accelerating an AI-first approach to development and operations.

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2. Jan 31, 2025Acquisition

   Acquires Illow, an Argentine cookie-consent startup

   BigID acquired Illow, a Buenos Aires-founded cookie-consent management platform used in 70+ countries and backed by Newtopia VC, to expand its consent-management capability; Illow's two founders and team joined BigID in product and engineering leadership roles.

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3. Mar 18, 2024Funding

   Growth round — $60M led by Riverwood Capital

   BigID closed a $60M growth round led by Riverwood Capital with Silver Lake Waterman and Advent, taking total capital raised to $320M at a valuation over $1B while nearing $100M in ARR.

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4. Apr 22, 2021Funding

   Series D extension — $30M led by Advent International, valuation to $1.25B

   BigID raised a $30M extension to its Series D led by Advent International, lifting the round to $100M total and the company's valuation to $1.25B just four months after reaching unicorn status.

   techcrunch.com
5. Dec 16, 2020Funding

   Series D — $70M, reaches $1B unicorn valuation

   BigID raised $70M led by Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global, with Glynn Capital, Bessemer, Scale Venture Partners and Boldstart Ventures also participating, pushing its valuation over $1B.

   techcrunch.com
6. Sep 5, 2019Funding

   Series C — $50M led by Bessemer Venture Partners

   BigID raised a $50M Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with new investor Salesforce Ventures, bringing total funding to more than $96M and launching a unified BigID platform.

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7. Jun 25, 2018Funding

   Series B — $30M led by Scale Venture Partners

   BigID raised a $30M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, five months after its Series A, with participation from ClearSky Security, Comcast Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Information Venture Partners and SAP.io.

   techcrunch.com
8. Jan 29, 2018Funding

   Series A — $14M led by Comcast Ventures, SAP.io, ClearSky

   BigID raised a $14M Series A led by Comcast Ventures, SAP (via SAP.io) and ClearSky Security Fund, with seed investor Boldstart Ventures returning, bringing total funding to $16.1M.

   techcrunch.com
9. 2016Founded

   Founded in New York and Tel Aviv with $2.1M seed round

   BigID was founded in 2016 by Dimitri Sirota and Nimrod Vax with a $2.1M seed round, establishing dual headquarters in New York (business) and Tel Aviv (engineering) to build a data discovery and privacy platform ahead of GDPR.

   techcrunch.com