Lightspeed backs CommandK’s mission to become the go-to enterprise security command center

CommandK, a startup offering a dedicated level to negociate endeavor security, has raised $3 cardinal successful a seed information led by Lightspeed.

Companies accumulate a batch of delicate information and shop secrets, specified arsenic API tokens, SSH keys and personally identifiable information. But protecting that is simply a analyzable task and requires state-of-the-art information prowess. This sadly tin incur a important costs load that moreover galore mid to late-stage companies debar taking — until they look a severe information incident hitting their businesses. CommandK, conscionable retired of stealth mode, believes it tin reside this problem pinch its one-stop platform.

The San Francisco-based startup lets companies deploy its solution wrong their virtual backstage unreality to protect their delicate information and keys without requiring precocious information skills. The startup’s solution comes arsenic a operation of package improvement kits and APIs pinch which existing developers successful a squad tin easy interact to heighten their security. The platform’s dashboard acts arsenic a cardinal power sheet to pass astir what is surgery successful nan strategy to guarantee information protection.

Jayesh Sidhwani and Rohan Prabhu, who antecedently worked together astatine neobank Jupiter, founded CommandK successful June past year. Sidhwani, who serves arsenic CommandK’s main executive, said he saw first-hand really companies — successful nan absence of strict information measures — struggle to comply pinch information protection laws, specified arsenic Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, aliases nan California’s Consumer Privacy Act successful nan United States.

Companies sometimes trust connected third-party microservices and software-as-a-service devices that sprawl their delicate information crossed aggregate platforms, exposing them to a wider onslaught area.

CommandK says it addresses that limitation by securing nan information wrong nan company’s infrastructure.

“Since we’re dealing pinch delicate data, we wanted to guarantee that while you get nan champion of nan experience, nan information doesn’t time off your network,” Sidhwani told TechCrunch.

CommandK supports scores of unreality infrastructures, truthful you tin usage nan level to unafraid your company’s information successful AWS, Google Cloud, aliases both. While CommandK’s level tin beryllium utilized by a patient successful immoderate shape of life, he said, astir companies commencement emotion nan symptom of requiring strict information measures astatine a Series B+ level.

“Until then, what usually happens is that nan VP of engineering would prime nan brightest developer successful nan squad and say, hey, please commencement doing information arsenic well,” said Sidhwani.

CommandK is presently successful backstage beta, a shape it intends to enactment successful for different fewer months. Sidhwani said that location is simply a waitlist of customers who person signed up for nan level pinch which nan startup is engaging to understand their problems amended and adhd caller features accordingly.

Over time, Sidhwani said nan scheme is to spell pinch a subscription exemplary that will thief make revenues.

“It is still early days for america to beryllium very honorable astir pricing. But because we are going to deploy it connected nan premise, we will do a licensing-based model,” nan co-founder noted.

CommandK has an all-remote squad of 7 employees, consisting of engineers and 1 designer. The startup is besides hiring much elder staffers to heighten nan merchandise further until it’s fresh to beryllium disposable retired of beta.

“Four undeniable shifts are happening successful nan world of endeavor SaaS today: developers are managing much and much codification and microservices; these microservices are deployed crossed much and much analyzable on-prem and unreality environments; reliance connected 3rd statement services specified arsenic Twilio aliases Stripe is expanding rapidly; and, finally, engineering teams are not conscionable managing code, but besides a batch of nan backend infra and associated configuration files, secrets, API keys, and more. Large companies specified arsenic Docker, Atlassian, and Github were built connected nan backs of helping developers amended negociate codification and microservices,” said Hemant Mohapatra, partner astatine Lightspeed, successful a prepared statement.

“We judge CommandK will beryllium nan defining institution successful helping developers amended negociate their security, secrets, and config infrastructure pinch nan aforesaid ratio and information arsenic they negociate their codification today.”

Alongside Lightspeed, AllIn Capital and angel investors specified arsenic Robin Vasan (Founder MangoCapital, committee personnel of HashiCorp, Couchbase, InfluxData), Jon Gelsey (ex-CEO Auth0), Sundeep Peechu (GP Felicis) and Akash Saxena (ex-CTO Disney+) besides participated successful nan seed backing round.