Cybersecurity’s a wild game, equal parts chaos, caffeine, and code. Gravwell was born in that noise, not from a pitch deck or buzzword bingo, but from two security pros who got sick of legacy tools tripping over their own data. Corey Thuen and Kristopher “Kris” Watts didn’t wait for someone to build what they needed, they did it themselves. In 2017, they launched Gravwell, a full-stack data analytics and security platform that doesn’t just manage machine data, it owns it. Logs, network traffic, event streams, Gravwell eats it all, raw, at scale, with zero sampling and zero silos.
This isn’t another SIEM clone trying to look smart in dark mode. Gravwell’s the real thing, a unified Security Data platform built to help security teams hunt threats, detect anomalies, and audit AI-agent behavior in real time. Its Structure-on-Read ingestion engine turns chaos into clarity, while the Piped Query Language moves through data like jazz through air: smooth, fast, improvisational. Think petabyte-scale analytics that actually make sense when the alarms start blaring.
And today, Gravwell’s making moves that’ll echo across the cybersecurity ecosystem. The company just raised $15.4M in a Series A led by Two Bear Capital, joined by Gula Tech Adventures, Next Frontier Capital, Innosphere Ventures Fund, Kickstart Fund, and Rise of the Rest, bringing total funding to $18.4M. That’s fuel for a global push, and proof that the market’s ready for a platform built by practitioners, not PowerPoint slides. Corey Thuen and Kris Watts aren’t chasing the SIEM market, they’re redefining what data freedom looks like.
The stats back it up. 100% YoY revenue growth. Deployments across NA, Europe, and APAC. Enterprise clients in finance, manufacturing, energy, and critical infrastructure. SOC 2 Type II certified, ISO 27001 on the way, and patented tech that fuses raw data into insights faster than most vendors can spell “index.” Gravwell isn’t just scaling, it’s sprinting, powered by Go, Rust, and Python microservices that move data like it’s 2030 already.
This Series A marks a launchpad moment. New offices in Europe and APAC. 25 new engineers by Q2 ’26. A managed cloud-hosted offering, SDP-On-Demand, plus deeper AI-driven anomaly detection. It’s a global play with mission support baked in, because real security doesn’t sleep, and neither does Gravwell’s platform.
Gravwell’s not trying to be pretty; it’s trying to be precise. Corey Thuen and Kris Watts built it from grit, not gloss. Backed by Mike Goguen and Two Bear Capital, they’re proving that truth in data still matters, and that when you build for scale, the gravity takes care of itself.
