Backed by Nexus Venture Partners, DeVC, and leading security and AI executives, Aurva introduces identity-centric runtime monitoring for modern enterprises

Aurva, the first unified platform for Access monitoring and AI observability, has launched out of stealth with $2.2 million in seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from DeVC and industry leaders including former Meta executives Chris Bream, Rahul Sood, Karandeep Anand, Mala Ramakrishnan and Postman founders Ankit Sobti and Abhinav Asthana.

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Aurva co-founders (L-R): Apurv Garg (CEO), Krishna Bagadia (CTO), and Akash Mondal (Chief Architect)

Aurva was founded by former Meta engineers Apurv Garg (CEO) and Krishna Bagadia (CTO). Bagadia previously helped design and scale Meta's internal data security systems, while Garg drove AI initiatives across business messaging units. Aurva's approach is inspired by Hipster, Meta's real-time data access control platform, and applies those lessons to high-scale enterprises now facing the security concerns from deploying AI-driven workloads.

From Static Access Control to Real-Time Data Usage Monitoring

From copilots embedded in tools to autonomous services operating in the background, AI-driven systems are accessing sensitive enterprise data in ways traditional tools can’t see or control.

Aurva gives enterprises end-to-end visibility into who is accessing sensitive data, how, and why, tying every query or data flow to a real identity, whether human, service, or AI agent.

“Existing tools were built for static environments. But AI is dynamic, it’s everywhere, and it just runs,” said Apurv Garg, founder and CEO of Aurva. “There are now countless ways data gets accessed, often without visibility. Enterprises need to rethink how they monitor sensitive data usage in real time; across humans, services, and AI agents. That’s why we built Aurva: to bring observability to AI usage and connect it directly to data access and flows.”

Legacy Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) tools were built for static environments, relying on delayed logs, generic alerts, and limited visibility into how data is actually used. In contrast, Aurva takes a fundamentally different approach, leveraging eBPF – a popular sandboxing approach at the kernel level used by Google, Netflix, Meta, and other enterprises to control software security – for real-time, low-overhead monitoring. The platform unifies query intelligence, agentic access monitoring, AI observability, and egress detection, helping enterprises detect overprivileged access, unauthorized AI usage, and risky data flows across services.

Billions of Transactions Monitored Daily by Aurva

Aurva is already serving dozens of enterprise customers in production environments across fintech, SaaS, and banking, including Forbes Cloud 100 payment provider Razorpay, and Meesho, a Meta-backed social commerce platform with 100M monthly users. Customer milestones include:

• 4B+ transactions per day monitored at one of the world’s largest financial institutions
• 1B+ queries per day analyzed at a leading digital bank and payments provider
• 2,000+ AI apps and agents auto-discovered and tracked at a large e-commerce provider

“Aurva gives us real-time, identity aware visibility into data access, helping us prevent unauthorized use and privilege escalation while meeting regulatory guidelines,” said Ashwath Kumar, Head of Security at Razorpay. “As access becomes more agentic and ephemeral, we rely on Aurva to tie queries to identities and flag anomalies. It is a critical layer in keeping production safe at scale.”

Aurva will use the funding to expand its engineering team, deepen AI observability capabilities, and support growing demand from U.S. and global enterprise customers.

"Security teams urgently need a runtime-first approach to data security, especially as AI systems autonomously interact with sensitive enterprise data," said Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners. "Aurva's team has proven that they can build at scale, and they are bringing a robust enterprise-grade solution to market at the right time."

“With the rapid growth of AI, understanding which identities, especially non-human ones, are accessing your data and how they are doing it has never been more important,” said Chris Bream, former Security Executive at Meta and an angel investor in the round. “Aurva is redefining what access monitoring should mean in an era of autonomous agents and service-based access by tying activity back to real identities. Their eBPF-based architecture offers a refreshing and modern approach, enabling flexible, low-overhead deployment. With their background in data systems and advanced threat actors, Apurv and Krishna have built a powerful platform that addresses real security problems.”

About Aurva

Aurva is redefining data security for the AI era with real-time, identity-aware access monitoring. By connecting every data access to a real identity across humans, services, and AI agents, Aurva enables enterprises to detect misuse, monitor AI activity, and protect sensitive data. Founded by ex-Meta engineers in security and AI, Aurva is backed by Nexus Venture Partners, DeVC, and leading investors from the security and AI ecosystems. Aurva is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Learn more at www.aurva.io.

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"Enterprises must rethink how they monitor sensitive data usage in real time across humans, services, and AI agents. We built Aurva to bring observability to AI usage and connect it directly to data access and flows." - Apurv Garg, founder and CEO of Aurva