Theom, an AI-native Data Operations Center (DOC) platform that automates AI and data governance and security, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Wing VC led the round, including Sentinel One, Snowflake, and Databricks.
What the funding will be used for: The new funding round will advance product development, scale go-to-market operations, and expand Theom’s team to meet surging enterprise demand for solutions safeguarding sensitive data across cloud, PaaS, SaaS, and generative AI environments.
Value proposition: With enterprises rapidly adopting Gen AI, they face a major overlooked challenge: ensuring sensitive data remains consistently governed and secured as it moves across data platforms, applications, and models. Theom tackles this issue decisively, bringing real-time data identity context, data usage, and AI-powered prioritization to enterprise security.
Traditional Data Governance and DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) tools were not designed for dynamic environments, where data moves between different environments, apps, and AI systems. And Theom is reimagining the category with a platform purpose-built for the modern enterprise.
The Theom platform automatically:
— Discovers and classifies sensitive data across structured and unstructured sources
— Monitors real-time data flows across cloud, PaaS, SaaS, and Gen AI environments
— Surfaces business-contextual risk and addresses threats based on real-world impact
— Delivers proactive policy enforcement and remediation before issues become incidents
— Addresses the gap between SOC and Data Operations Teams
Since emerging from stealth mode, Theom has seen rapid traction with large companies and high-growth enterprises like FiServ, Grammarly, TradeWeb, and JetBlue. Customers depend on Theom to ensure continuous compliance, prevent insider threats, enforce least-privilege access, and securely activate their data for AI, even as data is shared across Gen AI tools, third-party apps, and distributed teams.
This momentum drew the attention of top-tier investors and strategic partners who see Theom’s approach as essential to the future of secure, AI-ready data infrastructure.
KEY QUOTES:
“Security has historically focused on infrastructure and access — but in the AI era, data is the new perimeter. Our platform puts data context, usage and risk intelligence at the core of governance and security operations, helping teams move fast without compromising customer trust.”
Navindra Yadav, co-founder and CEO of Theom
“I’ve spent the last 20 years with category-defining companies in data and security, from FireEye and Ruckus to Cohesity and Shape, and I’ve seen firsthand how each wave of innovation reshapes the stakes. Traditional governance, compliance and security solutions were never designed for the way AI and agentic applications touch the enterprise data estate.”
“Theom is the first platform I’ve seen that delivers detailed and nuanced access policy and usage-based control over the enterprise data estate, necessary for businesses to use their proprietary and internal data in AI applications. Navindra is building the right solution for this new reality.”
Gaurav Garg, Co-Founder and Partner at Wing VC
“At Databricks, we are committed to making it easier for our customers to put trustworthy data and AI into production. Theom helps enterprises do just that. Its AI-native Data Operations Center extends the governance foundation of Unity Catalog across multicloud, SaaS, and generative-AI workloads, giving our joint customers end-to-end visibility and control. Their success in demanding, regulated enterprises proves the platform can scale today, and we’re excited to deepen our partnership as more organizations build on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.”
Andrew Ferguson, VP of Databricks Ventures
“Snowflake Ventures’ investment in Theom reflects our strong belief in the critical need for intelligent, automated data security governance. Theom’s impressive traction in the financial sector – an industry with some of the most stringent security requirements – validates its technology and approach. We see Theom as a key Snowflake partner transforming how organizations protect and govern their data assets, particularly as data environments become increasingly complex.”
Harsha Kapre, Director, Snowflake Ventures
“At SentinelOne’s S Ventures, we invest in bold ideas that redefine what’s possible in cybersecurity, data and AI – startups that will create fundamentally new categories or upend entire market segments. We believe Theom is poised to create a fundamentally new category in data. Theom isn’t just improving data security—it’s reimagining it. With a fundamentally new approach to governance, control, and intelligence, Theom is building the foundation for how enterprises will secure data in the age of AI.”
Rob Salvagno, SVP Corp Dev and Head of S Ventures
