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HashiCorp

● Active
Developer Tools · San Francisco, CA · Est. 2012
InfrastructureDevOpsCloud SecurityOpen Source↗ Website
$6.4B
Valuation
$687M
Revenue
2k+
Employees
2012
Founded

HashiCorp is an infrastructure automation company that provides open-source and enterprise tools for provisioning, securing, connecting, and running cloud infrastructure. Its flagship products Terraform and Vault are used by thousands of organizations worldwide to manage multi-cloud environments and protect sensitive credentials at scale.

Company History
8 milestones
HashiCorp was founded in San Francisco by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar while both were students at the University of Washington, driven by the need to automate infrastructure provisioning in the era of cloud computing.

HashiCorp Organization Structure & Team

Org Chart
2,400 employees · Click a leader to explore their team
2,900 across 12 departments
Chief Executive Officer
Armon Dadgar
Navam Welihinda — Departments
· 2900 people across 12 depts

HashiCorp Financials, Revenue & Market Share

Annual Revenue
$687M
+14% vs prior year
YoY Growth
+14%
From $320M to $687M
Revenue / Employee
$286K
Annual revenue per full-time employee
Revenue Growth
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
$320M
$448M
$583M
$687M
$687M
Market Share
Infrastructure-as-Code
42%
share
HashiCorp
42%
Pulumi
14%
AWS CloudFormation
18%
Ansible (Red Hat)
15%
Others
11%
$55B
TAM
$18B
SAM
$687M
SOM
Revenue Streams
Subscription License72%
Professional Services16%
Maintenance & Support12%
Business Units
Infrastructure Lifecycle Management62%
Products including Terraform and HCP Terraform that automate the provisioning, change, and destruction of infrastructure resources across cloud and on-premise environments.
Security Lifecycle Management38%
Products including Vault and Boundary that manage secrets, credentials, identity, and privileged access for cloud-native and hybrid enterprise environments.

HashiCorp Internal Tools & Processes

Internal Tools
12 departments
Engineering950 people · 3 roles
Standards & Certifications
10 standards
Compliance frameworks, security audits, and quality certifications this company maintains.
Security
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
HashiCorp maintains SOC 2 Type II certification across its HCP platform and cloud-hosted products including HCP Terraform and HCP Vault, demonstrating rigorous controls over security, availability, and confidentiality of customer infrastructure state and secrets data.
Security
ISO 27001
Certified
HashiCorp holds ISO 27001 certification for its information security management systems, covering the processes and controls used to protect customer data within the HashiCorp Cloud Platform and enterprise product development lifecycle.
Regulatory
FedRAMP Moderate
Certified
HashiCorp Vault and HCP offerings have achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, enabling U.S. federal agencies to use HashiCorp products for managing sensitive government infrastructure credentials and secrets in compliance with NIST standards.
Privacy
GDPR
Compliant
HashiCorp is compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, providing data processing agreements and configurable data residency options for European customers using HCP Terraform and HCP Vault to ensure personal data handling meets GDPR requirements.
Privacy
HIPAA
Compliant
HashiCorp Vault supports HIPAA-compliant secrets management workflows, enabling healthcare organizations to protect electronic protected health information by centralizing database credentials, encryption keys, and API tokens under strict access controls and full audit logging.
Regulatory
PCI DSS
Compliant
HashiCorp Vault is used by financial services and e-commerce customers to support PCI DSS compliance by replacing hard-coded payment system credentials with dynamic secrets and enforcing just-in-time access to cardholder data environments.
Security
FIPS 140-2
Certified
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise is available in a FIPS 140-2 validated configuration, using certified cryptographic modules to meet the requirements of government and regulated industries that mandate validated encryption for sensitive data protection.
Security
CSA STAR Level 2
Certified
HashiCorp has achieved CSA STAR Level 2 certification, providing third-party validated assurance of its cloud security posture and controls for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform, giving enterprise customers transparency into HashiCorp's cloud security practices.
Privacy
CCPA
Compliant
HashiCorp complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act, providing California residents with rights over their personal data collected through use of HashiCorp products and services, with documented data handling practices for HCP accounts.
Security
ISO 27017
Certified
HashiCorp is certified under ISO 27017, the cloud-specific security controls standard, ensuring that the HashiCorp Cloud Platform implements additional safeguards appropriate for cloud service providers handling multi-tenant infrastructure automation workloads.

HashiCorp Interview Preparation

Interview Prep
Role-specific interview questions and keywords. Select a department, then click any role to prepare.
Engineering· 3 roles

HashiCorp Products & Competitors

Product Suite
5 products · select one to explore
Developer Tools
DevOps
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code for any cloud

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool that lets teams define, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure across any provider using declarative HCL configuration files. Used by DevOps and platform engineering teams at companies of every size, it enables repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure workflows across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hundreds of other providers.

Use Cases
Provisioning multi-cloud VPC networks and compute resources using Terraform modulesManaging Terraform state in remote backends like Terraform Cloud for team collaborationWriting Terraform plans in CI/CD pipelines to preview infrastructure changes before apply
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Key Customers
ABNB
Airbnb
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Slack
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GitHub
Competitive Intelligence
VSAWS CloudFormation
THEM

AWS CloudFormation is Amazon's native infrastructure-as-code service that allows users to model and provision AWS resources using JSON or YAML templates, tightly integrated with the AWS ecosystem.

EDGE

Provider-agnostic multi-cloud support with a far larger ecosystem of community modules

VSPulumi
THEM

Pulumi is an infrastructure-as-code platform that allows developers to define cloud infrastructure using general-purpose programming languages like Python, TypeScript, and Go.

EDGE

Declarative HCL is simpler to audit and review for infrastructure governance teams

VSAnsible
THEM

Ansible is a Red Hat configuration management and automation tool that uses agentless YAML playbooks to configure servers, deploy applications, and orchestrate IT workflows.

EDGE

Terraform focuses on infrastructure provisioning while Ansible handles configuration, making them complementary rather than competing

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