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Evident.io

7901 Stoneridge Drive, Suite 207, Pleasanton, CA, 94588, United States

Overview

Evident.io provides security and compliance automation for public cloud through its Evident Security Platform (ESP). ESP continuously monitors an organization’s public cloud presence, identifies and assesses security risks, provides expert remediation guidance, and enables security auditing and compliance reporting. The company currently supports Amazon Web Services and intends to add support for Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. It plans to extend ESP functionality beyond infrastructure security and compliance automation and accelerate development of new features and capabilities. Evident.io also intends to expand sales and marketing efforts into the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Co‑founded by Tim Prendergast (CEO) and Justin Lundy (CTO), the company is based in Pleasanton, CA and has raised $49M to date. Evident.io is a Dublin, California-based provider of cloud infrastructure security and compliance automation. Its Evident Security Platform (ESP) continuously monitors an organization’s AWS footprint, is agent-less, deploys in minutes, identifies and assesses security risks, provides remediation guidance, and supports auditing and compliance reporting. Built on AWS APIs, ESP currently focuses on Amazon Web Services but the company intends to expand support to additional cloud provider platforms and develop new capabilities. Evident.io completed a $15.7M Series B funding round led by Venrock to support that expansion and product development. The company is led by cofounders Tim Prendergast (CEO) and Justin Lundy (CTO). The company has added industry executives to its leadership and board, including Venrock’s Doug Dooley joining the board and Jeff Williams of Bain Capital Ventures joining as interim Senior Vice President of Sales. The board already includes Bain Capital’s managing director and former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem and True Ventures partner Puneet Agarwal. Evident.io delivers continuous cloud security technology for Amazon Web Services through its Evident Security Platform (ESP). The ESP secures application- and data-centric cloud services as well as host systems, rather than being limited to the server operating system. Customers include startups, enterprises and public sector entities that rely on cloud infrastructure. The company is led by Founder and CEO Tim Prendergast. Evident.io closed a Series A round and plans to use the proceeds to continue to scale operations. The company is based in Dublin, California. Evident.io is a Dublin, CA-based cloud security service that provides compliance and risk-management solutions to help organizations protect cloud environments. The company is led by Timothy Prendergast, Justin Lundy, and Puneet Agarwal. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Evident.io raised $1.5M in funding. The SEC filing indicates the investment was made by a single, unnamed backer. The filing does not disclose the financing instrument or further investor details. The additional capital bolsters the company’s resources for its cloud compliance and risk-management offerings.

Total raised
$49M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Series C
Latest activity
Feb 2017

Industries

  • Cloud Security
  • Cyber Security
  • Developer Tools
  • DevOps
  • Information Technology
  • Security
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Series C

    Feb 2017

    $22M

  2. Series B

    Apr 2016

    $16M

  3. Series A

    Nov 2014

    $10M

  4. Equity

    Sep 2013

    $2M

Team

No current team members are available.