Privacera, cofounded in July 2016 by Balaji Ganesan and Don Bosco Durai, offers a SaaS data and security management platform that automates data discovery and policy management at petabyte scale. The platform integrates compliance across multiple clouds and supports unified authorization/authentication, data subject access requests, and data deletion to help meet GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, HIPAA and other regulations. Privacera leverages open-source AI and machine-learning natural-language processing libraries to automate discovery of personally identifiable data. The company reported 2.5x annual recurring revenue growth in 2020 and has about 130 employees. Privacera says it will use new funding to support its go-to-market strategy and accelerate product research and development. Privacera offers centralized data access governance that extends Apache Ranger's capabilities to cloud-native services and analytics platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP and Databricks. Co-founded in 2016 by Balaji Ganesan and Don Bosco Durai, the company is often described as "Apache Ranger in the Cloud." Its platform focuses on automated data discovery, access control, and privacy compliance to help enterprises balance data democratization with security. Privacera emphasizes scalable architecture informed by the founders' experience handling very large data deployments with Apache Ranger. The company positions its technology to help customers meet regulations such as GDPR and CCPA while enabling analytics. Privacera maintains offices in Fremont, California and Mumbai and reported strong customer traction that the Series A was intended to support.

Total raised

$64M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Mar 2021