Kivera, a NYC-based cloud security company, raised $3.5M in seed funding.
Backers included General Advance, Round 13 Capital and several angel investors including Srinath Kuruvadi, Managing Director and Head of Cloud Security, JP Morgan & Chase; Ely Kahn, VP Product for Cloud Security and AI/ML at SentinelOne; Dimitri Sirota, Founder and CEO of BigID; and other senior executives from Amazon, Google, Shift5, ServiceNow, and Zscaler.
The company intends to use the funds to invest in new talent as they move headquarters from Sydney, Australia to New York City.
Originally founded in Sydney, Australia by Neil Brown and Vernon Jefferson in 2019 and led by recently appointed Chief Executive Officer Joe Lea, Kivera provides a Cloud Security Protection Platform (CSPP) that offers capabilities across cloud protection, securing cloud data, simplified compliance, enabling cloud agility and granular cloud visibility. This allows developers to innovate within secure guardrails that prevent risks at build and run-time, minimizing the number of alerts and improving their signal to noise.
The company supports every major cloud provider, including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and MSFT Azure.
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09/08/2023