Descope for Y Combinator Startups

Your auth partner from Demo Day to IPO

Use Descope no / low code workflows and SDKs to easily add authentication and access control for your customers, partners, AI agents, and MCP servers. Eligible Y Combinator startups get the Growth tier free of charge for two years.

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What you get

Descope Growth

A Descope Growth subscription completely free of charge for two years. Auth, SSO, SCIM, RBAC, FGA, and more.

Onboarding and migration assistance

AI agent migration skills, priority support on AuthTown community, and more.

Your complete customer and agentic identity toolkit

Passwordless authentication

Boost conversions and block threats with passkeys, magic links, Google One Tap, and more.

Risk-based MFA

Add strong, adaptive MFA that's enforced only for risky logins (e.g. untrusted device, impossible traveler, third-party risk signals from reCAPTCHA).

Single sign-on

Implement SAML / OIDC SSO with self-service provisioning and configuration.

B2B enterprise readiness

Add SSO, SCIM, delegated admin, audit trails, and authorization capabilities to help you seal enterprise deals.

MCP auth

Add OAuth-compliant identity to your MCP server to provide secure, delegated access to AI agents.

AI agent credential management

Store, manage, and broker OAuth tokens and API keys for your AI agent to connect to downstream services (GitHub, Gmail, Salesforce and 70+ other tools)

Hear from some happy customers

"We love Descope SSO flows from a CX standpoint. A customer we onboarded just told us it was the fastest implementation ever. It usually takes weeks but we were done in 15 minutes - small talk included!"

David Li, Senior Software Engineer

“Descope has been super helpful in managing auth for both our MCP server as well as for managing OAuth tokens when Wisdom connects to various other MCP servers. Both flows have been extremely smooth.”

Tanish Lad, Founding Engineer

"Customers are citing capabilities we offer through Descope, like SCIM support, as a differentiator for Vega itself. "

Eli Rozen, Co-Founder and CTO

“The same roles and tenants we use for human access now govern what an AI client can do on our MCP server. With Descope, we didn’t have to build a secondary authorization model for agents and hope it stayed consistent with the first.”

Itamar Apelblat, Co-Founder and CEO

“We were able to turn on SSO almost instantly, and our customer’s IT team loved how intuitive and polished the setup experience was. It reflected well on Notch and made the onboarding process feel enterprise-grade.”

Tomer Yona, Head of Solutions Engineering

“We started with Descope and stuck with Descope because it’s been a business enabler. With our B2B and B2B2B customer base, enterprise readiness is non-negotiable; Descope delivers on all fronts.”

Nir Soudry, Head of R&D

“We recommend Descope because every enterprise-facing business has these requirements—to support any login option, for speedy SSO setup—and it’s all so much easier with Descope. You can set the right configuration without deep security experience.”

Gal Nakash, Co-Founder and CPO

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Why Descope for startups?

Regain dev focus

Spend time building your core product rather than keeping up with complex auth protocols.

Improve user conversion

Delight and retain users with frictionless, passwordless, omnichannel authentication.

Get enterprise-ready

Sell to large enterprises from day 1 without identity (SSO, SCIM, delegated admin) becoming a blocker.

Built for now and (much) later

Multi-region data residency, FedRAMP High, first-class identities for AI agents: Descope adapts wherever your journey takes you.

Startups run through our veins

Descope’s founders have over 30 years of enterprise security experience, most of it working together. We have created companies valued at over $1B and grown product line revenues at Palo Alto Networks and McAfee by 100s of millions.

Building and scaling Demisto into a SOAR leader was fun. So was joining Palo Alto Networks and taking Cortex XSOAR from scratch to hypergrowth.

You know what wasn’t fun? Building customer authentication in-house at each of our previous startups. It always started as a sprint and ended in an unwanted marathon.

Descope is a letter of recognition and apology to our past selves. And while our past selves can’t use Descope, we think every other startup on the planet should.