Cybersecurity startup Aurva has raised $2.2 million (INR 19.4 crore) in a seed funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners.
The round also included early-stage VC DeVC and several angel investors, such as ex-Meta director Chris Bream, Pindrop CPO Rahul Sood, and Postman founders Ankit Sobti and Abhinav Asthana.
Aurva plans to use the funding to expand sales and marketing, grow its security team, improve AI-based monitoring features, and meet the growing demand from India, the US, and other global enterprise markets.
Existing tools were built for static environments. But AI is dynamic, it’s everywhere, and it just runs,” said founder and chief executive Apurv Garg.
“There are now countless ways data gets accessed, often without visibility. Enterprises need to rethink how they monitor sensitive data usage in real time across humans, services, and AI agents,” he added.
Jishnu Bhattacharjee, managing director at Nexus Venture Partners, said, “Security teams urgently need a runtime-first approach to data security, especially as AI systems autonomously interact with sensitive enterprise data.”
Aurva was founded by former Meta engineers Apurv Garg, Krishna Bagadia, and Akash Mandal. The startup offers an AI-driven data security platform that helps companies detect, identify, and fix internal and external cyber threats in real time.
Aurva’s platform protects sensitive data and ensures compliance with regulations from RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, and DPDPA. Its clients include Razorpay, Slice Bank, Yubi, Paytm, and Meesho.
The platform monitors over 4 billion transactions daily at a financial institution and analyzes more than 1 billion queries each day for a digital bank and payments provider.
By combining database activity monitoring (DAM), AI observability, and data security posture management (DSPM), Aurva helps enterprises protect sensitive data and stay compliant with regulations.
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