Sentra, a fast-rising star in cloud-native data security, just secured $50 million in fresh Series B funding. That pushes the company’s total funding beyond the $100 million mark—a significant vote of confidence from the cybersecurity investment community. The round was led by Key1 Capital, with continued support from top-tier backers like Bessemer Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures, Standard Investments, and Munich Re Ventures.
This funding comes at a crucial time. As AI becomes the backbone of modern enterprise systems, it’s also exposing businesses to new risks. Sentra’s platform, built for securing AI-first environments, is already seeing massive traction. With 300% year-over-year growth and a client roster that includes Fortune 500 companies, Sentra is scaling fast to meet rising demand.
AI’s Data Problem: The Hidden Risk of Shadow Data
As enterprises rush to adopt generative AI, a new kind of data sprawl is quietly building up. Known as “shadow data,” it includes files duplicated, moved, or reshaped by engineers and data teams—often without proper oversight. This untracked data creates serious security gaps, often outside the scope of traditional protection tools.
Gartner predicts a 15% jump in security spending by 2025, driven by the growing risks of generative AI. Enterprises need a smarter way to keep data safe, and that’s where Sentra steps in.
A Smarter Way to Secure AI Pipelines
What sets Sentra apart? It’s not just another bolt-on security patch. Sentra’s cloud-native Data Security Platform (DSP) is designed to secure data across all major environments—from AWS and Google Cloud to SaaS platforms and on-prem servers.
At the core of its platform is an AI-powered classification engine. Instead of relying on basic rules or regex, Sentra’s system uses large language models (LLMs) to understand the actual business context of data. This lets it identify sensitive content in formats that traditional tools often miss—like code repositories, documents, images, and audio—with over 95% accuracy.
Even more importantly, Sentra doesn’t move or extract your data. It runs natively in your environment, ensuring compliance with data privacy laws while minimizing exposure risks.
Beyond Detection: Full-Spectrum Data Protection
Sentra’s platform covers the full data security lifecycle. It offers:
- DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) to detect risks like open access, file duplication, and misconfigurations.
- DDR (Data Detection & Response) to catch real-time threats, like data exfiltration or ransomware activity.
- DAG (Data Access Governance) to map data access across users and apps, enforcing least-privilege policies.
Instead of treating data security as a static task, Sentra turns it into a dynamic, responsive layer that grows with your business and adapts to evolving threats.
Cyber Intelligence at the Helm
Sentra’s leadership brings deep cybersecurity expertise, particularly from Israel’s elite cyber unit, Unit 8200:
- Asaf Kochan, President, is the former head of Unit 8200.
- Yoav Regev, CEO, led its cyber division.
- Ron Reiter, CTO, is a seasoned founder and technical leader.
- Yair Cohen, VP of Product, brings experience from Datadog and Microsoft.
This team’s mission is clear: build the most trusted data security platform for the AI era.
Fueling a Future of Safe AI Innovation
This new $50M investment will help Sentra expand its platform, scale its team, and develop advanced security features tailored for GenAI use cases, AI assistants, and vast enterprise data lakes. The goal is simple: give security teams the tools to maintain full visibility and control—without slowing down innovation.
CEO Yoav Regev summed it up: enterprises are ready to use AI, but not at the cost of their data. With Sentra, they don’t have to choose.
