Theom is a technology company.
Theom has raised $36.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Theom has raised $36.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Theom is a San Francisco-based technology company founded in 2020 that builds an AI-native Data and AI Operations Center platform. It discovers, tracks, protects, and governs enterprise data across multi-cloud, SaaS, PaaS, lakehouse, and generative AI environments, delivering real-time visibility, risk detection, and autonomous threat response to prevent data breaches and enable secure AI adoption.[1][2][4][5] Serving Fortune 500 enterprises and growth companies like JetBlue, Grammarly, Fiserv, and Tradeweb, Theom solves critical challenges in data security and governance amid exploding data volumes and AI proliferation, reducing insider risk detection from days to real-time while supporting compliant GenAI use.[1][2][5] The company raised a $20M Series A in May 2025 led by Wing Ventures, with participation from Databricks Ventures, signaling strong investor confidence in its traction protecting petabytes of data and billions of events.[1][3][5]
Theom emerged from stealth in late 2020, founded by security veterans Navindra Yadav and an experienced team from Google, Yahoo, Cisco, and Snowflake. Yadav, the CEO with prior roles as CISO and CDO, previously founded Tetration Analytics (acquired by Cisco) and contributed as a founding engineer at Insieme (also acquired by Cisco), where he developed ACI switch fabric; at Google, he built and protected data/network infrastructure, holding over 425 patents that informed Theom's focus on modern data/AI challenges.[2] Teammate Thomas Molloy, Head of Sales, drove early revenue at Snowflake as employee #26. This expertise in zero-trust security birthed Theom to address gaps in cloud data protection, quickly gaining adoption from enterprises like JetBlue and Grammarly.[1][2][5]
Theom rides the explosive growth of multi-cloud data estates and GenAI, where traditional infrastructure-focused security fails against dynamic threats like insider misuse and AI-driven breaches. Timing aligns with enterprises racing to operationalize AI—Databricks notes customers' struggles securing data across platforms—positioning Theom as an "operational command center" that treats data as the perimeter.[1][4][5] Market forces like regulatory pressures (e.g., compliance mandates) and AI hype favor its agentless, real-time approach, influencing the ecosystem by partnering with data giants like Databricks and Snowflake to enable secure innovation at scale.[2][5]
Theom's $20M Series A and Fortune 500 traction position it for rapid expansion into mid-market firms facing AI governance hurdles, with deepening integrations across expanding data/AI stacks. Trends like sovereign AI regulations and zero-trust mandates will amplify demand, potentially evolving Theom into a category leader as it scales autonomous features. Watch for broader SaaS/GenAI dominance, tying back to its core strength: securing data to unlock AI without compromise.[1][3][5][6]
Theom has raised $36.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Theom's investors include A Capital, Cisco Investments, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12, Next47, Polaris Partners, Ridge Ventures, SV Angel, Wing Venture Capital, Apoorva Ruparel, DJ Patil.
Theom has raised $36.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $20.0M Series A in May 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2025 | $20.0M Series A | A Capital, Cisco Investments, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12, Next47, Polaris Partners, Ridge Ventures, SV Angel, Wing Venture Capital, Apoorva Ruparel, DJ Patil, Gerhard Eschelbeck, Kunal Shah, Oliver Friedrichs | |
| Sep 1, 2022 | $16.0M Seed | Andreessen Horowitz, Cisco Investments, Cyberstarts VC, Grove Ventures, M12, Race Capital, Ridge Ventures, Softbank Group, Viola Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Aryeh Mergi, Tony Jamous |