Diligent
About
The leading board management and governance, risk, and compliance platform — used by 700,000+ board directors and executives at 25,000+ organizations in 90+ countries. Diligent Boards provides the digital boardroom experience: board book distribution, director communications, and secure file sharing for sensitive board materials. Diligent HighBond (acquired from Galvanize) delivers GRC, audit management, and risk management. Diligent Equity handles shareholder and equity governance. The ESG modu...
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Ideal Customer
- Diligent's sweet spot is mid-to-large enterprises with 500+ employees, particularly public companies, financial institutions, and organizations in heavily regulated industries with dedicated GRC teams and board governance obligations.
- The most common customer size observed in usage data is 1,001–5,000 employees (28% of detected customers), and buyers are typically Chief Legal Officers, Corporate Secretaries, Risk Managers, and Compliance Officers with $150K–$500K annual GRC budgets.
Key Differentiators
- Diligent's primary differentiator is its position as the only GRC platform that unifies board management, enterprise risk, internal audit, compliance, and ESG in a single AI-powered system — eliminating the need for multiple point solutions and enabling risk insights to flow directly to board reporting.
- The company claims the #1 board portal globally, serving 75% of the Fortune 500, and is the only GRC provider recognized as a Leader by all five major independent analyst firms simultaneously: Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Verdantix, and Chartis (as of 2025, with seven total Leader recognitions across those firms as of Q2 2026).
Industries Served
- Diligent serves a broad range of industries with dedicated solutions for financial services (banks, insurance, private equity), healthcare, manufacturing, energy, technology, and government (federal, state, and local).
- It also targets corporate service providers, nonprofits, and higher education institutions (via its BoardEffect product).
Service Coverage
- Diligent operates as a fully global SaaS platform, serving customers in over 150 countries across all major continents.
- The company maintains physical offices in New York City (HQ), Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Singapore, Sydney, and South Africa, with employees spanning 6 continents.
Partnerships
- Diligent maintains a global partner network of 120+ partners spanning the technology, consultancy, sustainability, and legal industries, with recent expansions across Asia Pacific, Latin America, and North America.
- The platform integrates natively with 100+ third-party systems including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365 (available on Microsoft AppSource and Teams Store), Workday, NetSuite, Splunk, DocuSign, and Google Drive/Workspace, among many others.
Company Size & Ownership
- Diligent was originally founded in 1994 as Manhattan Creative Partners and currently employs approximately 2,000–3,000 people across 6 continents, with recent estimates ranging from 2,185 (Wikipedia) to approximately 3,000 (LeadIQ, 2026).
- Revenue has grown substantially from $330M in 2020 to over $600M reported in 2022, with current estimates placing annual recurring revenue (ARR) at approximately $582M and total revenue in the $500M–$1B range.
Compliance & Certifications
- Diligent's security program is governed by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and holds ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019 certifications across its core platforms, originally certified in 2014.
- The Diligent One Platform undergoes annual SSAE 18 SOC 2 Type II audits, and the company also holds SOC 1 reports, TX-RAMP, IRAP, HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR compliance documentation, all publicly available through its Trust Center.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
3 offeringsDiligent Boards
Digital board management platform — secure distribution of board books and materials, director communications portal, meeting management, and electronic signatures for resolutions. SSAE 18 SOC 2 Type II certified; ISO 27001 certified. The standard board portal for public companies, financial institutions, and governance-focused organizations.
Diligent ESG
Board-level ESG oversight and sustainability management — tracks emissions, DEI metrics, and governance commitments against public pledges and regulatory reporting requirements (CSRD, SEC climate disclosures). Connects executive ESG targets to operational data for audit-ready sustainability reporting.
Diligent HighBond (GRC)
Governance, risk, and compliance platform — internal audit management, risk register and assessment, compliance program management, and policy management on a unified workflow platform. Pre-built frameworks for SOX, COSO, ISO 31000, and NIST. Competes with ServiceNow GRC, MetricStream, and AuditBoard.
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