Startup Of the Day: StackBob.ai — AI-powered access and password manager

StackBob is a Ukrainian startup that develops cybersecurity solutions using AI agents to help companies manage their employees’ access, passwords, and licenses. Earlier this year, the startup raised $100,000 in grant funding from Google for Startups, and will soon represent Ukraine at Web Summit 2025.

In the Startup of the Day column, the startup’s founding team shares more insights about the startup’s idea, its product, and future plans. 

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Tell us about founders and your team

StackBob has two co-founders: Ole Shved – CEO, Yarik Rozum – CTO.Photos were provided by the startup

The current team consists of 15 people. We are also currently looking for a senior UI designer.

What does the startup do?

StackBob is an Identity and Access Management platform that gives companies full control over who has access to what, where credentials are stored, and how budgets on subscriptions are spent.

StackBob connects with any tool a company uses: from everyday tools like Jira and Slack to complex systems like CRM, ERP, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. It also integrates with identity providers like Entra ID and Google Workspace.

What sets StackBob apart is its AI-powered agent, which can connect to any applications, including those that don’t support traditional SCIM or SAML integrations. The agent automatically reacts to changes inside a company: onboarding new employees, reassigning roles, or renewing subscriptions. Among its core capabilities are:

• Automated provisioning and revoking of access rights
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Detailed audit and compliance logs
• Shadow IT detection
• Secure corporate password manager
• License and subscription optimization based on actual usage

StackBob meets the SOC 2 Type II standard, validated through independent audits. All data is encrypted with AES-256, the same encryption trusted by governments and financial institutions. Regular penetration testing ensures ongoing protection, and customer data is never shared with LLM providers or used for external model training.

Today, StackBob protects more than 5,000 users across industries including retail, IT outsourcing, marketing, and SaaS. Clients typically see results within weeks:

• Up to 30% savings on software licenses
• 80% faster onboarding and offboarding through automation
• Around 40% reduction in IT and HR workload
• 3× faster SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audit prep with full access logs

How did you come up with the startup’s idea?

Ole and Yarik first crossed paths at a young B2B startup that, within three years, went from idea to a $100 million acquisition. Ole was leading product; Yarik, one of the earliest engineers, was the person everyone turned to when things got too complex to untangle.

After this journey came to an end, they often joked that one day they’d build something of their own.

That day came right after the liberation of the Kyiv region. A strange, fragile time to start anything, and yet exactly the right one.

Their first idea had nothing to do with security. It was a developer tool born from a frustration Yarik had faced while managing API rate limits during integrations. They did their homework: talked to engineers, tested interest, reached out on LinkedIn. The feedback was polite, but indifferent. So they learned an early startup truth: not every problem is worth building a business around.

So they wiped the whiteboard clean and started from scratch. This time they audited every problem they’d ever wrestled with in product, operations, marketing, and engineering. The one recurring pain point stood out — the chaos of tech stack sprawl. Teams were suffocating under the weight of tools, licenses, and overlapping access. It wasn’t a problem anyone noticed day to day, but one that silently accumulated until it caused real damage. Ole and Yarik had lived through that mess themselves, scaling a team from three to thirty-five people very quickly.

That’s when the idea behind StackBob clicked. A platform to help companies regain control over access, over tools, and ultimately, over their own security.

How long did it take to reach the prototype or MVP?

Well, the initial MVP was created in about a month, but it took us almost three years to get the technology to its current implementation that has nothing in common with the initial MVP. Overall the concept of MVP is a must have today with the abundance of the no code and AI tools that are available to founders these days. It makes your conversations with initial leads and potential customers more real and to the point.

It largely depends on the product that you are building but my best advice on MVP is to start with Concierge MVP if you can.

We were building StackBob with full autonomy in mind from the very beginning because of data privacy and security. But if your product allows you to suggest to your customers to deliver the value in a half-manual way at the beginning (where you or your team does the core part in a semi-automated way) that might save you a ton of time and provide extra insights.

When exactly did you launch your product?

The first production version of StackBob was launched to the public in late 2022.

Tell us about the startup’s business model. How do you monetize your product?

We operate on a subscription model, with pricing based on the number of users in your organization.

Our subscription plans are:

1. Growth — $4 per user/month
   Includes automatic discovery of all company applications (including shadow IT), license management, cost analytics, team password manager, access control for SaaS and cloud services, and detection of unused licenses or inactive accounts.
2. Scale — $6 per user/month
   Adds automatic provisioning and deprovisioning of access, a role-based access control (RBAC) model, and detailed activity logs to support audits and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, etc).
   
3. Enterprise — custom pricing
   Tailored features for specific requirements and options for on-premise deployment.
   

What are your target markets and consumers?

Built for organizations with 50 to 2,000 employees, StackBob targets the growing segment of businesses that live and breathe SaaS & Cloud, yet lack the enterprise budgets or dedicated teams to manage identity and access.

Traditional IAM platforms were never designed for this space. They rely on SCIM API and SAML SSO integrations that many modern applications still don’t support or hide behind costly enterprise plans.

The result is a fragmented environment where teams are forced to manage access manually across dozens of tools, creating blind spots, security gaps, and mounting license waste.

With StackBob, companies gain complete visibility and control over every SaaS, cloud, on-premise, and custom app in under a day and without costly upgrades. It also equips employees with a secure password manager and gives leadership real visibility into license spend and waste.

If the startup has already launched the product, what are your results?

We currently secure over 5,000 users across 50 companies worldwide.

Have you already raised any investments?

The startup has received $50,000 from the Ukrainian Startup Fund, $100,000 from Google, $120,000 from Techstars, and €60,000 from the European Commission. As well as angel investments and personal founders’ funds. The total amount of investment is not disclosed.

What’s next for you?

Our mission is to make enterprise-level protection and control available to every organization, regardless of size, budget, or maturity. We’re bridging the gap between affordability and advanced security, giving growing companies the same level of access visibility and control that industry giants rely on.

In the near term, we’re focused on scaling across high-risk sectors and deepening our footprint in Europe and the US. At the same time, we’re expanding the StackBob platform with new modules, including protection for autonomous AI agents, an emerging class of privileged identities inside modern organizations.

Looking ahead, our vision is for StackBob to become a global identity and access management platform. The one that makes security as fundamental and accessible as email or a corporate website.