Aveksa
Company

Last deal

$3M

Amount

Series D

Stage

01.03.2013

Date

3

all rounds

$31M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Aveksa offers enterprise access governance solutions, helping organizations address security and regulatory demands.

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founded date

01.01.2004

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series D

IPO status

Private

Description

The company's solutions automate access certification, role management, entitlement administration, controls automation, and risk analytics. Their Compliance Manager ensures policy-based governance through automated monitoring, review, and remediation of user entitlements and roles. Additionally, their Role Manager facilitates roles-based governance through roles discovery, modeling, and lifecycle management. Aveksa also provides implementation and support services, including application inventory, requirements definition, server installation, and user certification. Their clientele spans financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail sectors. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Aveksa is a developer and marketer of identity and access management software, offering customers access to business context for identities, users, and activities within the HP ArcSight Security Intelligence platform. Their solutions enable enterprises to manage the complete lifecycle of user access for SaaS and On-premise applications and data.
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Aveksa, Inc.
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Deepak Taneja
Deepak Taneja

Deepak Taneja

Deepak Taneja is the Co-Founder, CEO & President of Zilla Security. He was founded Aveksa in 2004 and led the company from inception through Feb 2008 before moving into the role of President and CTO. In this role, he is responsible for driving Aveksa’s technology vision and ensuring that the company’s solutions deliver the capabilities that customers need to solve their access governance challenges for today and tomorrow. Previously, he was CTO and VP of Engineering at Netegrity, where he was instrumental in establishing the company as a market leader in Identity and Access Management. Deepak has also held senior management roles at Switchboard, Banyan Systems and Intel Corporation. He holds a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.

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Aveksa

organization founded

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Deepak Taneja

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Deepak Taneja

Deepak Taneja

Founder and CTO

David Kaupp

David Kaupp

Consultant

Arun Oberoi

Arun Oberoi

CEO

John O'Donnell

John O'Donnell

Chief Financial Officer

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