Okera provides an active data access platform (ODAP) that enables secure data access at scale for modern analytic platforms. Its platform automatically discovers and audits data usage in data lakes, lets data owners and stewards create access policies via a visual policy engine, and enforces fine-grained access. Sensitive data can be dynamically protected using obfuscation functions including tokenization, anonymization, pseudonymization, redaction, and masking. The company is San Francisco, CA–based and is led by CEO Nick Halsey and co-founder/CTO Nong Li. Okera raised $15M in a strategic round that brought total funding to $29.6M. The company intends to use the funds to expand investment in engineering, sales, and marketing. Okera provides the Active Data Access Platform that sits between large data lakes and analytics tools and frameworks, facilitating provisioning, access, governance and auditing of data. The platform is designed to operate across multi-cloud, multi-data format and multi-tool environments. Okera launched out of stealth with a $12M Series A round that brings total funding to $14.6M. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate operational growth. Led by co-founder and CEO Amandeep Khurana, Okera is based in San Francisco and counts Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries as customers.

Total raised

$27M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Apr 2020