Stealth is not silence, it is the pause before the drop, the bassline you don’t hear until it rattles your chest. Aurva has been operating in that quiet zone since November 2022, when three engineers who cut their teeth at Meta and Sprinklr decided to build something the enterprise security world didn’t even know it was missing. This week they turned up the volume, stepping out of stealth with $2.2 million in oversubscribed seed funding. The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners and Managing Director Jishnu Bhattacharjee, joined by DeVC, along with a roster of heavy-hitters including Chris Bream, Rahul Sood, Karandeep Anand, and Mala Ramakrishnan. Add Ankit Sobti and Abhinav Asthana of Postman into the mix and you’ve got more than investors, you’ve got conviction from people who understand scale and know how fragile security becomes when growth outpaces control.
At the center is Apurv Garg, CEO and former Meta Data Science Lead who built AI initiatives that touched billions of messages. Alongside him is Krishna Bagadia, CTO, who designed and scaled Meta’s internal data security systems before leading security at Jupiter. Completing the trio is Akash Mandal, Chief Architect, a former Sprinklr Director of Engineering who joined Aurva as a founding member in January 2023. These are not rookies trying to find a problem; these are veterans who lived inside one of the world’s largest problems and decided to deliver the solution at enterprise scale.
Aurva’s product is not another security dashboard collecting dust. This is real-time, eBPF-based, kernel-level monitoring that makes legacy Database Activity Monitoring tools look like flip phones. The platform ties Database Activity Monitoring, AI observability, and Data Security Posture Management into one system that knows who is accessing what data, from which identity, human, service, or AI agent. Enterprises are already using it to monitor over 4 billion transactions daily at a financial institution, parse 1 billion queries a day for a digital bank, and automatically discover and track more than 2,000 AI applications inside an e-commerce giant. Scale like that is not a proof of concept; it is a proof of inevitability.
The logos speak for themselves: Razorpay, Meesho, Slice Bank, Yubi, Paytm. Customers that define fintech and commerce in India are trusting Aurva to secure the flows that keep money and data moving. With offices in Sunnyvale and Bengaluru, the company is built to straddle two ecosystems, serving enterprises across SaaS, fintech, and banking while preparing for global expansion. The new capital will grow the engineering team, strengthen security capabilities, and push deeper into AI observability, because AI is not a side hustle anymore, it is the backbone of modern enterprises, and with that comes new attack surfaces.
This is not just funding news. It is a reminder that security cannot wait for compliance deadlines or regulatory pressure. Real-time, identity-aware monitoring is the new baseline, and Aurva is making sure enterprises can meet it without losing speed. Congratulations to Apurv Garg, Krishna Bagadia, and Akash Mandal. Nexus Venture Partners and the full roster of backers just placed a bet that looks less like a gamble and more like a guarantee.
