Sentra, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based data security company, has raised $150 million in strategic capital led by Capital One Ventures to accelerate the development of its agentic data security platform and expand its global operations. The investment follows a year in which the company reported more than 300% year-over-year growth, reflecting increasing enterprise demand for security solutions designed to protect sensitive information as artificial intelligence adoption accelerates.
Existing investors participating in the investment include Bessemer Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures, Standard Investments, Munich Re Ventures, and Key1 Capital. As part of the transaction, a representative from Capital One will join Sentra’s board of directors.
Founded in 2021 by Yoav Regev, Asaf Kochan, Ron Reiter, and Yair Cohen, Sentra provides technology that helps organizations identify, classify, govern, and protect sensitive data across cloud environments, software-as-a-service applications, data warehouses, and on-premises infrastructure.
The company’s platform addresses emerging security challenges associated with AI agents, which increasingly operate as independent digital identities capable of accessing enterprise information and executing tasks at machine speed.
Unlike traditional security tools focused primarily on network boundaries or individual user activity, Sentra emphasizes protecting data at rest and controlling which human and non-human identities can access it.
The platform combines data security posture management (DSPM), data detection and response (DDR), data access governance (DAG), and data loss prevention (DLP) into a unified approach to enterprise data protection.
Sentra’s technology continuously identifies sensitive information, evaluates access permissions, detects potentially risky behavior, and automates remediation activities to reduce exposure.
Its capabilities include mapping the data accessible to employees, service accounts, and AI agents, identifying inherited permissions, and enforcing least-privilege access policies.
The platform can also detect unusual interactions with sensitive information and revoke access or remove risky sharing configurations when necessary.
An important component of Sentra’s approach is its ability to analyze data within customers’ existing environments without transferring sensitive information to external infrastructure. This architecture is intended to reduce data residency, retention, and compliance risks, particularly for businesses operating in highly regulated industries.
Sentra plans to use the new funding to expand visibility into AI agents, copilots, and models while advancing continuous access governance, automated threat containment, and data protection capabilities.
The company will also invest in international expansion, sales and channel partnerships, marketing, and enterprise customer acquisition.
Its customer base includes Lyft, which uses Sentra to evaluate data access and support the secure deployment of artificial intelligence technologies.
The financing positions Sentra to expand its role in enterprise AI security as organizations increasingly require tools capable of governing sensitive information accessed by autonomous agents.
Support: H-F & Co., Law Offices served as legal counsel to Sentra, while Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz advised Capital One Ventures.
KEY QUOTES:
“AI agents are now the busiest consumers of enterprise data, and many of them inherit access to data that hasn’t been fully classified or governed. Traditional perimeter controls weren’t built for agents moving at machine speed. What organizations can do is make sure the data those agents reach is already secured. Sentra protects data where it lives and controls which identities, human and AI, can reach it, so organizations can deploy AI more quickly while staying in control. This investment lets us bring agentic data security to every enterprise putting agents to work.”
Yoav Regev, Co-Founder And CEO Of Sentra
“Our teams at Lyft want to move fast with AI, but we need to know what data our agents can reach before we turn them on. Sentra gives us that answer across our whole environment, so security helps the rollout instead of slowing it down.”
Chaim Sanders, Chief Information Security Officer At Lyft
