TrustCloud - Series A
$15M Raised
In 2020, a company born in Boston decided that “GRC” shouldn’t feel like IRS paperwork met a root canal. That company was Kintent. But like all good origin stories, it evolved, shed its skin, took on a new name, and aimed bigger. TrustCloud, founded by serial builder Sravish Sridhar, isn’t just updating governance, risk, and compliance, it’s yanking GRC out of the Stone Age and rebuilding it with AI, swagger, and substance. And if you think that’s just another SaaS flex, consider this: they just locked down a $15M strategic round led by ServiceNow Ventures, with Cisco Investments, Presidio Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, and Tola Capital putting more than just signatures on the dotted line. That’s more than confidence, it’s a co-sign from the risk and ops gods.
Let’s talk numbers, because in GRC, the math doesn’t lie. 100% year-over-year ARR growth. Three years running. 98% gross revenue retention. 115% net. One thousand customers, including heavyweights like Corelight, Dolby Laboratories, Grafana Labs, and even ServiceNow. You don’t win those names by checking boxes. You win them by changing the whole damn checklist.
At its core, TrustCloud runs on a hybrid data fabric pulling from 100+ integrations. Think of it like the DJ booth for your enterprise stack, syncing Jira, Slack, and ServiceNow into a single risk remix. On top of that, you’ve got “Assurance AI,” a purpose-built machine learning engine that pairs NLP with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Translation: it slashes GRC busywork like a hot knife through legacy.
Sravish Sridhar has been here before, Kinvey wasn’t a fluke. Neither was Tejas Ranade coming over from Progress and MicroStrategy or Ivan Stoyanov stepping in as CTO after steering Kinvey’s engineering. This isn’t a band that just got signed, this is the reunion tour with better riffs and tighter production.
But what TrustCloud’s building is bigger than compliance. It’s about turning security from a stop sign into a launchpad. Their TrustOps platform automates audits so well it’s turning auditors into fans. TrustShare kills the pain of security reviews by answering questionnaires before your inbox even dings. And CISOs? They’re shifting from fire drills to boardroom strategy, because TrustCloud does the heavy lifting with AI while they focus on what actually moves the needle.
This raise isn’t just a milestone. It’s validation. Proof that modern risk management isn’t about fear, it’s about trust. Programmatic, provable, and always-on. So yeah, this isn’t GRC as usual. It’s TrustCloud, and they’re not here to play nice with legacy. They’re here to replace it.
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