Sentra co-founders. (Photo: Sentra)
Israeli cybersecurity startup Sentra, a leading provider of cloud-native data security platforms, has announced the successful completion of a $50 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Key1 Capital, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures, Standard Investments, and Munich Re Ventures. This latest investment brings Sentra’s total funding to over $100 million.
The funding comes on the heels of a 300% year-over-year revenue surge and the onboarding of multiple new Fortune 500 clients, signaling strong enterprise demand for advanced data security solutions. Sentra plans to use the capital to accelerate its innovation roadmap and global expansion, particularly as it rolls out new AI-driven data security features within its Cloud-Native Data Security Platform (DSP).
The upgraded platform aims to help organizations protect sensitive data in the age of artificial intelligence, addressing escalating compliance and security risks linked to AI adoption in the cloud.
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Founded in 2021 by Asaf Kochan, the former Commander of the IDF’s elite cybersecurity Unit 8200, Yoav Regev, who led Unit 8200’s Cyber Department under Kochan, Ron Reiter, and Yair Cohan, Sentra boasts that its DSPM solution enables organizations to gain full visibility and control of data while protecting against sensitive data breaches across the entire public cloud stack.
Sentra provides automatic data discovery, classification, monitoring, and protection for cloud-first organizations – Sentra finds all the sensitive data and understands who has access to it, how it is being used, and what the data security posture is.
Sentra ensures data is secured no matter where it travels by automatically detecting privacy and security risks, ensuring cyber resiliency, protecting from insider threats and data loss, enabling responsible AI, reducing data sprawl and related costs, and strengthening data access permissions. It achieves this by intelligently discovering and accurately classifying sensitive data at petabyte scale, proactively managing security posture, enforcing granular access controls, and swiftly detecting and responding to threats.
“AI is only as secure as the data behind it. Every organization we work with is racing to leverage AI but is equally as concerned about exposing sensitive data,” said Yoav Regev, CEO and co-founder, Sentra. “Sentra gives them the reassurance and confidence they need to move fast by securing data at every stage. With this new funding, we’re doubling down on helping enterprises secure their data everywhere and adopt AI confidently so they can innovate without compromising trust.”
