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Kandji, Inc.

Kandji, Inc.

Kandji is a San Diego-based device management software company developing a device management platform for Apple devices.

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Industry
Technology
Technology
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
B2B
B2B
Compliance
Compliance
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Enterprise
Software
Software
iOS
iOS
Mobile device management
Mobile device management
...
Location
San Diego
San Diego
B2X
B2B
B2B
CEO
Adam Pettit
Adam Pettit
Founder
Adam Pettit
Adam Pettit
Wesley Pettit
Wesley Pettit
Mark Daughters
Mark Daughters
Legal Name
Kandji, Inc.
Legal classification
Corporation
Corporation
Date Incorporated
2018
Number of Employees (Ranges)
51 – 200
Email Address
hello@kandji.io
Number of Employees
315
Full Address
101 West Broadway, San Diego, California 92101, US
CIK Number
1,758,863
Place of Incorporation
Delaware
Delaware
Investors
Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank
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Spruce House Partnership (QP) LP
Webb Investment Network
Webb Investment Network
Felicis Ventures
Felicis Ventures
Lee Fixel
Lee Fixel
Okta Ventures
Okta Ventures
B Capital Group
B Capital Group
Greycroft
Greycroft
...
Founded Date
2018
Total Funding Amount (USD)
252,043,631
Latest Funding Round Date
November 18, 2021
Competitors
AirWatch
AirWatch
Esper
Esper
Scalefusion
Scalefusion
JAMF Software
JAMF Software
Addigy
Addigy
Zoho Corporation
Zoho Corporation
Fleetsmith
Fleetsmith
Hexnode
Hexnode
Business Model
Subscription
Glassdoor ID
2581683
Latest Funding Type
Series C
Series C
Patents Assigned (Count)
1

Other attributes

Company Operating Status
Active
Latest Funding Round Amount (USD)
100,000,000

Kandji is a cloud-based platform for centrally managing and securing Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV devices for IT teams. The company's platform is intended to be a zero-touch solution for enterprises to manage their Apple devices, including keeping them in compliance with defined templates and capable of pre-built automations, applications, and workflows.

Platform

The Kandji device management platform works to differentiate itself from other device management platform—first, with its exclusive focus on Apple devices and second, with its attempt to develop automation throughout the device management workflow.

This includes the solution living in-cloud, to allow Kandji to release new features for customers without users worrying about maintaining updates. The platform offers a library of pre-built automations, accessible through the company's API, to help IT administrators automate repetitive tasks. It uses automation to install managed applications for macOS rather than manually packaging, hosting, and patching common applications. Kandji has a stated emphasis on continuous device remediation or state management to configure device settings and ensure device security is not compromised by modified settings. And the platform offers one-click compliance templates that are developed by Kandji and intended to offer another layer of automation for IT teams.

Liftoff

Kandji's Liftoff is a device setup and management solution that allows users to make a new Mac into an enterprise-ready computer through setting up necessary apps, settings, and security controls on the first startup and with as much of the process automated as possible. This allows users to customize the screen they see when their computers are configured, including providing necessary tools and a welcome message. This also offers users a zero-touch device deployment without an IT needing to physically touch the device.

Device management

Other device-specific management tools include device blueprints, which allow organizations to define devices, related applications, and some permissions based on the team, department, or location of the device. The assignation of a device blueprint can automate controls and applications for that device. Kandji's platform offers an automated migration tool to migrate organizations from other device management providers; self-service tools to give users increased control outside of the automations; visibility into the entire group of devices to monitor activity with detailed records, push updates on specific machines; and an extensive log of remediations performed on a given machine.

Apps

Kandji's library of Auto Apps offers automated macOS patch management and a library of applications Kandji pre-packages, hosts, and automatically patches. This ensures that users' applications remain up-to-date without IT teams needing to manually update machines and allows users to retire applications or block unwanted applications across an entire fleet of computers. Users can use applications synced from the Apple App Store and upload and deploy custom applications through simple pre-install tools, including a drag-and-drop tool.

Controls

On top of Kandji's automated tools their library of pre-built compliance automations, the platform also allows IT teams to set profiles for Wi-Fi, privacy, SSO, and system extensions and develop custom profiles for specific needs. Although Kandji has containerized its common policies, the platform supports custom scripts for unique device control needs. And the platform offers a managed OS tool to allow administrators to enforce operation system updates across a user environment.

Security and compliance

Kandji's included security and compliance tools include:

  • automated compliance templates, such as CIS or FedRAMP;
  • auditor access to allow users to remain audit ready, with detailed results at a moment's notice with a read-only auditor access mode;
  • offline remediation to automatically enforce compliance and remediate issues even if computers are offline;
  • SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) for secure access for administrators managing devices and with an identity provider of the users choice;
  • and a compliance control library with pre-built security controls that administrators can filter for a specific compliance framework, depending on organizational needs.
Integrations

Kandji works to offer easy integrations with a list of applications to increase setup and workflow automation for specific applications and save organizations more time. These include integrations with a variety of applications:

  • Apple Business Manager
  • Slack
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365
  • Watchman Monitoring
  • CIS Compliance
  • Oomnitza
  • Okta

As well, the company offers an API for enterprise-grade extensibility and allows administrators to access a list of connected and managed devices and see the details for those devices.

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SBIR/STTR Awards

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Further Resources

Title
Author
Link
Type
Date

Kandji announces $3.375M seed for sophisticated Apple MDM solution

Ron Miller

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/kandji-announces-3-375m-seed-for-sophisticated-apple-mdm-solution/

Web

October 28, 2019

Kandji hauls in $21M Series A as Apple device management flourishes during pandemic

Ron Miller

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/28/kandji-hauls-in-21m-series-a-as-apple-device-management-flourishes-during-pandemic/

Web

October 28, 2020

Kandji Raises $60M To Manage Apple Devices In The...

Chris Metinko

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/kandji-raises-60m-to-manage-apple-devices-in-the-enterprise/

Web

April 22, 2021

Kandji Sees Growth Surge For Apple Enterprise Management Solution With Help Of MSPs

Kyle Alspach

https://www.crn.com/news/mobility/kandji-sees-growth-surge-for-apple-enterprise-management-solution-with-help-of-msps

Web

January 28, 2021

When setting up a Mac at work, Kandji Liftoff aims to create the perfect first-day experience - 9to5Mac

Bradley Chambers

https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/26/when-setting-up-a-mac-at-work-kandji-liftoff-aims-to-create-the-perfect-first-day-experience/

Web

May 26, 2021

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