Aurva, a data security startup founded by former Meta engineers, has come out of stealth after closing a successful $2.2 million seed round. The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners and supported by DeVC, and several experienced angel investors from the global security and AI ecosystem.

Founders and Vision

Aurva was founded by Apurv Garg (CEO), Krishna Bagadia (CTO), and Akash Mandal (Chief Architect). All three come strong experience from their time at Meta, where they worked on systemically largescale AI, data infrastructure, and security systems. Bagadia worked on Meta’s internal security platforms. Garg was responsible for the AI portfolio across Meta’s messaging businesses. Their collective expertise has been channelled into building Aurva as a modern solution for securing enterprise data in an era dominated by AI-driven interactions.

The vision behind Aurva is straightforward but powerful: to give enterprises real-time, identity-aware monitoring of all data access, whether triggered by a human user, a backend service, or an autonomous AI agent. This is particularly vital today, as AI agents increasingly interact with sensitive data without traditional oversight.

What Makes Aurva Different

the company is positioned as the first unified runtime platform for access monitoring and AI observability. Unlike traditional monitoring tools that rely heavily on delayed logs, static rules, or siloed dashboards, Aurva operates in real time. It ties every single data access request back to a verified identity, ensuring that misuse or unauthorized access can be detected and blocked instantly.

The company runs on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology that is a low-level tracing framework that is used by large companies like Google, Netflix, and Meta. By using eBPF, Aurva provides ongoing monitoring without degrading the performance of the system, thus creating a design where enterprises can easily comply with compliance and security regulations while still operate normally.

Early Customer Adoption

Although still a young company, Aurva has already gained meaningful traction. The platform is being used by dozens of enterprise clients across fintech, SaaS, and banking sectors. Some of its reported deployments include:

• Monitoring over 4 billion transactions daily at one of the world’s largest financial institutions.
• Analyzing more than 1 billion queries per day for a leading digital bank and payments provider.
• Automatically discovering and tracking 2,000+ AI apps and agents for a large e-commerce platform.

Customers such as Razorpay and Meesho have publicly endorsed Aurva’s approach. Security leaders have noted that its real-time visibility prevents privilege escalations and unauthorized access, challenges that traditional tools often fail to address.

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Investors and Industry Support

Aurva had an oversubscription on their seed round acceptance, which indicates strong confidence in Aurva on behalf of investors. Aurva’s seed round was led with Nexus Venture Partners and DeVC leading the round, and several well-known angel investors participated. This included former Meta executives like Chris Bream; and founders from companies like Postman and Cyware.

According to Nexus’s Managing Director, the rise of autonomous AI agents has created an urgent need for “runtime-first” approaches to data security, and Aurva’s model fits that demand perfectly. Chris Bream also praised the startup, calling its eBPF-powered, low-overhead design a “refreshing and modern approach” to monitoring in the age of AI.

Expansion Plans

Aurva plans to utilize the new capital to expand its engineering team, enhance AI observability features, and scale enterprise adoption in the U.S., India, and other global markets. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai, giving it a strong presence across two of the world’s fastest-growing technology ecosystems.

Competitive Landscape

Aurva works in a competitive environment, with other companies like Immuta, Satori, and Veza. However, its identity-aware, real-time technology and use of eBPF will allow it to stand out from traditional players. While competitors have often focused on only data governance or access control, Aurva is bringing security, compliance and AI observability into a single platform. As organizations move rapidly towards the adoption of AI and autonomous agents, the demand for platforms that can secure high-frequency, high-volume data flows is becoming much more urgent. Aurva brings together deep technical roots, a highly experienced founding team, and strong initial customer traction with real potential to succeed in this emerging market.

Shaping the Future of AI-Aware Security

Aurva’s recent launch out of stealth with $2.2 million in funding illustrates investor confidence and market readiness for next-gen data security options. By linking each data access event to a real identity, and doing it at runtime, they plan to address, head on, one of the biggest challenges enterprises face when dealing with security today.

With AI-driven workloads changing the way we do business, Aurva’s solution comes at a critical time. With early traction, global presence and strong investor backing, Aurva may be in a good position to become a meaningful player in the development of AI-consistent data security.

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