When Julie Trias and Elizabeth Nammour were working together at Airbnb on the company’s data team, they had to deal with data spread across a variety of sources, and that growing sprawl led to challenges in keeping data safe. The founders’ own frustration with the existing crop of data protection options motivated them to launch […]
Sprinto raises $20M to bring automation to security compliance management
Sprinto, a security compliance and risk platform, has raised a $ 20 million Series B round to build more automation into its compliance management platform and widen its customer base to include the wide gamut of companies that operate digitally but aren’t tech-first. Compliance with frameworks such as SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA has become […]
Aaron Levie leads Box into its third era focused on workflow automation and AI
Box began life almost 20 years ago in a dorm room at USC when Aaron Levie conceived of an online file storage and sharing system. A few years later, Levie’s original idea was becoming commoditized, and he switched gears to enterprise content management in the cloud. It was a radical notion at the time in […]