FinovateSpring 2016 / Vera
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: Vera is solving the greatest problem financial firms face in the Information Age: corporate data travels everywhere. With Vera, businesses can protect, track, and share privileged information, no matter where it’s stored or how it’s shared.
How they describe their product/innovation: Vera delivers a first-of-its-kind zero-touch, zero-friction data protection solution that secures and tracks any digital information across all users, devices, applications, and platforms in real-time. Vera’s AES 256-bit encryption technology protects any kind of data, and then tracks and manages user permissions and can revoke access to files, no matter how far they travel.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Sales: Robin Daniels, CRO (Vera), sales@vera.com
Press: Lynsey Rose, Global Comms Manager
Website: vera.com
Blog: vera.com/blog
Twitter: @VeraSecurity
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Founded: January 2014
Product Demoed: Vera Security
Product Launch: April 2015
Metrics: $31M raised, 70 Employees located in Silicon Valley and Bangalore, India
Presenters: Ajay Arora (CEO & Co-Founder), Grant Shirk (Sr. Director, Product Marketing)
- Key Executives
Ajay Arora (CEO & Co-Founder), Prakash Linga (CTO & Co-Founder), Robin Daniels (CRO)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members
Stefan Dyckerhoff (Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures), Roger Lee (General Partner, Battery Ventures), Mike Dauber (General Partner, Amplify Partners)
- Key Investors
Vera is backed by Battery Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Amplify Partners, and some of Silicon Valley’s most notable cyber-security angel investors.
- Key Advisory Board Members
Eugene Lee (VP of Information Technology, Viacom), Alan Cohen (Chief Commercial Officer, Illumio), Martin Brodbeck (CTO, SterlingBackcheck & Former Head of Technology, Pearson PLC and Pfizer)
- Key Partnerships
Vera has established a broad ecosystem of strategic partners and product integrations with VMware, Microsoft, Centrify, Box, Okta, and Dropbox to reinforce security for enterprises of all sizes and integrate security seamlessly into the tools businesses use daily.
- Key Customers
Since launching publicly in April 2015, Vera has added more than a quarter million users at Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, media & entertainment, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Landmark customers (that can be named) include Viacom, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Perella Weinberg, Pine River, Tremblant Capital and a major financial exchange in the United States.