Transaction

Vercel acquires Better Auth

Announced

7 July 2026

Target

Better Auth, Inc.

Value

Undisclosed

Asset class

Venture Capital, Corporate Transactions

Type

Merger/Acquisition(M&A), Exit

Instrument

Ordinary Shares (Equity)

Lead investors

Vercel Inc.

Investors

Vercel Inc.

Sector

Technology / Application Software

Markets

Ethiopia

About the target

Better Auth, Inc. is a United States-incorporated software company specialising in open-source authentication and authorisation for the TypeScript ecosystem. Founded by Ethiopian self-taught developer Bereket Engida, with product work originating in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and later headquartered in San Francisco, California, following Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, the company provides a framework-agnostic library and related infrastructure that developers embed in their own applications and databases. Core offerings include email and password authentication, social sign-on, multi-factor and passkey authentication, multi-tenant organisation and role management, enterprise SSO/SCIM capabilities, and an extensible plugin model. The company also developed Agent Auth for scoped AI-agent identity and launched Better Auth Infrastructure as a hosted companion layer.