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| Industry | Data security, AI security |
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| Founded | 2023 |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Website | aurva |
Aurva Inc. is an American data security company based in Sunnyvale, California. The company specializes in real-time access monitoring and security for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Aurva was founded in 2023 by a team of former Meta leaders, Apurv Garg (CEO) and Krishna Bagadia (CTO), to address the unique data security challenges posed by Generative AI.
The company has its corporate HQ in Sunnyvale, California, and has a major operations hub in Bengaluru, India.
Aurva was founded in 2023 by former Meta AI and security leaders, Apurv Garg, Krishna Bagadia, and Akash Mandal.
The company was created to address the growing problem of securing sensitive data in environments where AI systems, services, and humans all access and move data at high velocity.
Aurva has quickly become an industry leading Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) solution for the cloud market.
In September 2025, Aurva emerged from stealth and announced a $2.2M USD seed funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners with $1M Revenue and 20+ customers.
AIOStack is Aurva's flagship community version AI security platform. It is engineered to provide comprehensive runtime security and observability for AI/ML systems, MCPs, and autonomous agents.
Significantly, AIOStack is the only community platform, available for Shadow AI visibility, allowing organizations to discover and manage unauthorized or unmanaged AI usage.
The platform leverages eBPF-based technology to deliver deep, kernel-level visibility and control over AI workloads within enterprise environments. This focus allows it to detect and respond to modern threats, such as sensitive data leakage, AI Supply Chain, Excessive Agency and unauthorized access in real-time.
According to the company, its security framework is designed to align with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs.
Aurva’s database activity monitoring (DAM) is a cloud-first system that provides real-time visibility into database queries and transactions across managed and self-hosted databases. It attributes activity to specific human users, services, and AI agents, rather than only to shared technical accounts, allowing security teams to trace who accessed which data, from where, and through which workflow.
Aurva has been recognized by experts as an industry-leading platform for cloud DAM, designed to help organisations meet common regulatory and audit requirements associated with database monitoring, including those found in financial and data protection frameworks. The platform includes policy-driven monitoring, alerting, and retention controls intended to support compliance with standards such as GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOX, NYDFS, RBI and region-specific guidance, while its support for AI-agent and agentic access is presented as a way to “future-proof” database monitoring in environments where autonomous AI systems interact with production data.
The software is intended to detect unauthorized access and anomalies in query patterns.
Aurva's software architecture relies heavily on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter), a technology that allows programs to run in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading modules. The company uses this to inspect network traffic and system calls associated with AI models and database interactions.
Aurva combines this with AI and NLP based classification to understand data types and context of the data flows, and provide runtime analytics to detect anomalous access patterns and potential data exfiltration in real time.
The system integrates with cloud providers, identity platforms, and security information and event management (SIEM) tools, and is delivered as a cloud native service.
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