Nightfall AI Emerges From Stealth With $20.3 Million to Secure Data in the Cloud
Summary
Madan was previously on the investment team at Venrock, an early-stage venture capital firm with a storied history in cybersecurity, with recent exits including CloudFlare and Evident.io, dating back to Vontu, Imperva, and CheckPoint. The Nightfall team has prior experience at platform tech and cybersecurity companies, including Uber, Atlassian, Deliveroo, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Akamai. The platform’s accuracy and automation capabilities limit the need for manual intervention, while delivering continuous protection in environments like Slack," said Michael Laurenzano, CTO of Clinc, an enterprise artificial intelligence firm servicing highly regulated industries. The firm has helped launch and commercialize more than 240 companies, including DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, Lime, LinkedIn, Rapid7, Redis Labs, Rent the Runway, Rubrik, SendGrid and SurveyMonkey. With a primary focus on technology and healthcare, portfolio companies have included Apple, Check Point Software, Cloudflare, Dollar Shave Club, DoubleClick, Imperva, Intel, and Nest.