VGS
VGS (Very Good Security), headquartered in San Francisco, is a payment tokenization and data security company whose 'Zero Data' SaaS infrastructure lets merchants, fintechs and enterprises collect, store and exchange sensitive card, PII and health data and meet PCI/SOC2/HIPAA compliance without holding the raw data.
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VGS (Very Good Security), headquartered in San Francisco, is a payment tokenization and data security company whose 'Zero Data' SaaS infrastructure lets merchants, fintechs and enterprises collect, store and exchange sensitive card, PII and health data and meet PCI/SOC2/HIPAA compliance without holding the raw data. It has expanded into agentic commerce infrastructure and an AI Data Firewall so AI agents can transact securely.
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Funding history
- 2020-12-18Series C$60M
Investors · Vertex Ventures US, Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman SachsSource · globalventuring.com ↗
- 2019-10-24Series B$35M
Investors · Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Vertex VenturesSource · securityweek.com ↗
- 2018-08-28Series A$9M
Investors · Andreessen Horowitz, Nyca Partners, Vertex Ventures, Slow VenturesSource · verygoodsecurity.com ↗
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