Aurva, a unified platform for access monitoring and AI observability, has emerged from stealth with $2.2 million in seed funding. Nexus Venture Partners led the oversubscribed round. DeVC and several industry leaders also participated.
The company provides identity-centric runtime monitoring for modern enterprises. It secures AI-driven data access in real time.
AI-driven systems access sensitive enterprise data in ways traditional tools cannot monitor. Aurva offers end-to-end visibility into data access by humans, services, or AI agents. This approach ties every query or data flow to a real identity, enhancing cybersecurity. The company's focus on real-time solutions justified Aurva's seed funding.
Legacy database activity monitoring tools, like those offered by Varonis or Imperva, often rely on delayed logs. In contrast, Aurva takes a fundamentally different approach. It leverages eBPF for real-time, low-overhead monitoring. This technology unifies query intelligence, agentic access monitoring, AI observability, and egress detection. It helps enterprises detect overprivileged access and unauthorized AI usage.
Aurva already serves numerous enterprise customers across fintech, SaaS, and banking. For instance, it monitors billions of transactions daily for a large financial institution. The platform also tracks thousands of AI apps and agents for a major e-commerce provider, demonstrating the impact of Aurva's seed funding.