When cybersecurity meets compliance, the usual play is rinse, repeat, report. But A-LIGN didn’t show up to play. They showed up to own the game.
Founded in 2009 by Scott Price, a former Arthur Andersen consultant who knows the audit grind better than most folks know their own passwords, A-LIGN has been running a 15-year masterclass in how to scale a services business into a tech-enabled juggernaut. This isn’t your granddad’s checkbox compliance, it’s automation with precision, delivered by a team that’s put in the miles and logged over 31,000 audits across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, FedRAMP, PCI, and CMMC.
Now, let’s talk about the latest move: Hg, the private equity heavyweight with a nose for scaling software-driven infrastructure, just took a majority stake in A-LIGN from Warburg Pincus. The deal, announced July 8, 2025, sends A-LIGN into unicorn territory with a reported $1 billion valuation and a war chest from HgCapital Trust plc, which dropped a cool £48 million via the Hg Genesis Fund. If you know Hg, you know they don’t buy in unless they see a category killer in the making. And with projected 2025 revenue hitting $200 million and a global client list topping 5,700, A-LIGN fits the mold, tight execution, deep tech, global scale.
But the secret sauce? It’s not just compliance. It’s A-SCEND, their in-house platform that turns audit pain into SaaS precision. Built on React.js, Node.js, Python, and hosted in SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001–certified AWS environments, A-SCEND is more than workflow automation. It’s AI-powered controls mapping, risk analytics, and real-time tracking all in one sleek package. And yes, it plays nice with ServiceNow, Jira, and Splunk.
CTO Mike Herdegen has been instrumental in scaling this architecture. With deep chops in compliance tech and a relentless drive for platform evolution, Herdegen and his team are building out features like continuous monitoring modules and expanded cyber risk quantification. The roadmap is aggressive, the talent pipeline is growing, and new offices across Europe, Latin America, and Asia are already in motion.
This isn’t just a win for A-LIGN. It’s a signal to every mid-market and enterprise org buried under overlapping frameworks and regulator whack-a-mole: there’s a better way. It’s fast. It’s scalable. And now, it’s backed by one of the sharpest growth firms in the game.
