Fortanix
Company

Last deal

$90M

Amount

Series C

Stage

12.09.2022

Date

3

all rounds

$135.25M

Total amount

date founded

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About Company
Fortanix is a data-first multi-cloud security company.

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founded date

01.07.2016

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series C

IPO status

Private

Description

Fortanix is a developer of enterprise security software designed to process and work with encrypted data, providing protection for data at rest and data during motion, keeping keys and applications completely protected from external and internal threats, whether deployed on-premise or on any cloud provider. The company decouples security from infrastructure to address the challenges of securing sensitive data, wherever it may be located, across its entire life cycle, whether it is at-rest, in-motion, or in-use. Fortanix customers include organizations of all sizes and a wide range of verticals, including some of the biggest global brands and Fortune 50 companies.
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Ambuj Kumar
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Ambuj Kumar

Ambuj Kumar is co-founder and CEO of Fortanix, Inc., the Runtime Encryption company, whose mission is to solve cloud security and privacy. Ambuj is a recognized leader in cryptography with more than 30 patents in the field. Prior to founding Fortanix, Ambuj was lead architect at Cryptography Research Inc. where he led and developed many of the company's security technologies that go into millions of devices every year. Previously, he worked for NVIDIA where he designed world's most advanced computer chips including world's fastest memory controller. Fortanix has established itself as a leader in Runtime Encryption with strategic partnerships with IBM and Equinix.

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Anand Kashyap
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Anand Kashyap

Anand is the co-founder and CTO at Fortanix, and leads engineering and product development. He also leads the customer acquisition and customer success process at Fortanix, working closely with customers and partners in enabling technical sales. Previously, Anand worked at VMware through the acquisition of Arkin. He developed the core engine for netflow analysis in VMware NSX environments, which is now part of the VMware vRealize Network Insight product. Before VMware, he worked for several years as a lead researcher at the Symantec Research Labs. At Symantec, he developed foundational technologies used in several products, such as the Norton Mobile Security suite, Norton Core Router, Symantec Risk Insight, and Symantec Deepsight Intellgence. He filed over 25 patents and presented in conferences such as Financial Cryptography and BlackHat. Anand holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. He has published 20 papers in top conferences and journals and his work has received over 1100 citations.

current job

Fortanix
Fortanix

organization founded

1

Anand Kashyap

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Michael Loger

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Frank Yoo

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Sameer Phatarpekar

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Faiyaz Shahpurwala

Chief Product & Strategy Officer

David Greene

David Greene

Chief Revenue Officer

Nishank Vaish

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