Scytale Acquired by HPE

We’re excited to announce that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired our Work-Bench portfolio company Scytale. Here at Work-Bench, we’ve had many conversations with those in our corporate network surrounding the challenges created by the growing complexity and size of heterogeneous infrastructure environments, along with the need for speed for digital initiatives. These challenges have shifted engineering and security team’s focus towards built-in infrastructure security that enables developers and operations groups to move fast and maintain rigorous safeguards.

To get at the core of the problem, enterprises need to rethink identity. The SPIFFE and SPIRE open source projects championed by Scytale do just that and are already being used by companies including Uber, Pinterest, Square, and Bloomberg. Commercially, Scytale is providing this headache-free, identity assurance to heavily regulated enterprises with legacy environments across financial services, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.

HPE witnessed this challenge firsthand with its own customers and recognized the immense value of Scytale’s team and technology, as well as the engaged SPIFFE community they helped cultivate. Going forward, Scytale will underpin the Trust Fabric in HPE’s Cloudless Computing initiative. Scytale’s mission to simplify how all services, whether static or dynamic, authenticate to one another will charge on and HPE will be able to lift it to new heights across their collective customer base.

Huge congratulations to Sunil James, Emiliano Berenbaum, Andrew Jessup, and the entire Scytale founding team. Since meeting them in 2017 through an introduction from Brandon Phillips (CTO of our Work-Bench portfolio company CoreOS, which was acquired by Red Hat), we saw them assemble quite an exceptional group of folks who share the same vision and passion. We were fortunate to see the excitement about SPIFFE firsthand while hosting one of the early community days at Work-Bench. What really impressed us about Scytale was their empathy for the enterprise. We enjoyed being in the trenches with them providing intros to prime customer targets and helping navigate the complex enterprise sales cycle.

We’re proud to have had the chance to work with these remarkable individuals and are excited to see them continue their journey with HPE.

To learn more, check out:

• Sunil James on Scytale’s next chapter.
• HPE on how Scytale bolsters their open, secure, edge to cloud strategy.
• Press coverage in TechCrunch, VentureBeat.