Niara is a stealth security analytics company led by co-founder and CEO Sriram Ramachandran. The company combines data from disparate sources to discover compromised users, provide insight into malicious insiders, enable advanced threat hunting efforts, and prioritize alerts for rapid investigation. Niara intends to use its new funding to accelerate product development and scale marketing and sales efforts. The company closed a $20M Series B that brought total funding to $29.4M. Niara is based in Sunnyvale, California. Board composition following the round includes new Venrock investor Doug Dooley alongside existing investors' representatives. Niara is a stealth enterprise security company focused on detecting breaches across companies and analyzing where, when and how compromises occurred. Its product analyzes breach activity, including which internal documents were downloaded. The company is positioned in a similar space to Mandiant, addressing sophisticated corporate security threats. The market interest in breach-preparation and response is strong, as evidenced by activity at the RSA conference. The broader market opportunity is also highlighted by Mandiant’s $1B-plus acquisition by FireEye. The founders came from Aruba Networks, and one founder previously ran the enterprise security group at Juniper Networks. Niara has secured external funding of $9 million from prominent investors.

Total raised

$29M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Apr 2015