In today's cloud-driven world, securing sensitive data across distributed environments has become a critical challenge. Heightened regulation around sensitive data and the AI revolution has done nothing but intensify this problem, creating unprecedented volumes of data while simultaneously raising the stakes for its protection.
Data security ranks among the top concerns for most CISOs, yet legacy solutions remain predominantly focused on on-prem environments - fragmented, reactive, and unable to provide real-time risk visibility in this new era of cloudification and AI-powered innovation.
Sentra’s cloud-native Data Security Platform (DSP) helps organizations comply with privacy, security, and compliance frameworks for all their structured and unstructured data, by discovering, classifying, and securing their data at scale across the entire public cloud stack. Through automated, agentless technology, Sentra delivers comprehensive and real-time risk visibility, access and governance management, detection, remediation and response, enabling security teams to proactively manage data security and compliance at scale.
In doing so, Sentra addresses a critical gap: data in the cloud is not protected by on-premises solutions and not well protected by existing cloud security solutions, creating massive exposure and opportunity. At its core, virtually all cyberattacks, regardless of type, ultimately target DATA. While solutions like Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tell you which "windows and doors" are open, data security identifies where the "jewels" are stored, which safes they need to be in, who has access, who's attempting access, and who might be trying to steal them.
Sentra provides complete visibility into cloud data through their integrated security platform. Their solution helps organizations discover where sensitive data resides, classify it appropriately, and secure it effectively across cloud environments.
What sets Sentra apart is its speed, comprehensiveness and accuracy. Their system can identify sensitive information with over 95% accuracy while deploying in just 20 minutes without requiring agents or data extraction outside customer’s environment (a major deficiency of competing solutions), making implementation remarkably straightforward, vastly efficient and more secured compared to competing solutions.
Another key differentiator in Sentra's solution is their AI-powered classification engine, which delivers unprecedented accuracy and rich contextual information about sensitive data. This deep context is crucial for organizations implementing efficient data governance and security programs, enabling more precise risk assessments and targeted protection measures than previously possible.
The founding team of Sentra brings world-class technical expertise and leadership credentials. Co-founders Yoav Regev (CEO), Asaf Kochan (President), Ron Reiter (CTO), and Yair Cohen (VP Product) leverage their background as former commanders of Unit 8200 - Israel's elite intelligence corps - and its Cyber Division.
This elite background provides Sentra with unparalleled access to top security talent emerging from these units, with the best graduates actively seeking to join their team. This leadership experience and powerful network enabled the creation of the market’s most sophisticated DSP solution while attracting top-tier cyber talent from the industry at large. The founding team has created an organization that's highly responsive to customer needs, rapidly developing tailored features that address real-world security challenges.
The team demonstrates exceptional execution focus and self-awareness, the qualities we look for in growth-stage investments.
Over the past year, Sentra grew its top line in a very meaningful way, driven mainly by large financial institutions and some of the world’s leading B2C brands. These customers chose Sentra against the competition based on their unique technology and/or moved to Sentra from competitors who couldn't satisfy their technological and regulatory needs.
Our decision to back Sentra stems from their technological superiority, exceptional leadership, and phenomenal growth, making them the ideal partner for our first dedicated cybersecurity investment.
Furthermore, Sentra's strategic position within the AI revolution represents a significant market opportunity. The rapid adoption of AI technologies like Copilot agents and generative AI is creating substantial new security challenges for enterprises. CISOs are increasingly concerned about shadow data, excessive access permissions, and data exposure - all issues that AI adoption is dramatically amplifying. Sentra is uniquely positioned as an enabler for secure AI adoption, providing the critical visibility and protection that organizations need to confidently leverage AI while maintaining robust data security
Poised to become the definitive platform for cloud data security in an increasingly complex digital landscape, we are proud to have invested in Sentra and excited to be part of their journey.