Aurva, a data security startup founded by former Meta engineers, has launched out of stealth with $2.2 million in seed funding to bring real-time monitoring to enterprise data access. The oversubscribed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from DeVC and industry leaders including former Meta executives Chris Bream, Rahul Sood, Karandeep Anand, Mala Ramakrishnan, and Postman founders Ankit Sobti and Abhinav Asthana.
Founded by Apurv Garg (CEO) and Krishna Bagadia (CTO), Aurva offers a platform for identity-aware access monitoring and AI observability. The system was inspired by Hipster, Meta’s internal data access control platform, but adapted for enterprises now facing the risks of autonomous AI systems interacting with sensitive information.
“Existing tools were built for static environments. But AI is dynamic, it’s everywhere, and it just runs” said Apurv Garg. “Enterprises need to rethink how they monitor sensitive data usage in real time, across humans, services, and AI agents. That’s why we built Aurva: to bring observability to AI usage and connect it directly to data access and flows.”
Unlike legacy Database Activity Monitoring tools that rely on logs and alerts, Aurva uses eBPF, a kernel-level sandboxing technology also used by Google, Netflix, and Meta, to provide low-overhead, real-time insights. The platform unifies query intelligence, agentic access monitoring, AI observability, and egress detection, enabling enterprises to detect overprivileged access, unauthorized AI usage, and risky data flows.
Aurva is already monitoring billions of transactions per day for customers in fintech, SaaS, and banking. Clients include Razorpay, which processes $100B+ in annual payments, and Meesho, a Meta-backed social commerce platform with 100 million monthly users. At Razorpay, Aurva tracks 4 billion transactions daily.
“Aurva gives us real-time, identity-aware visibility into data access, helping us prevent unauthorized use and privilege escalation while meeting regulatory guidelines” said Ashwath Kumar, Head of Security at Razorpay.
Nexus Venture Partners’ managing director Jishnu Bhattacharjee said: “Security teams urgently need a runtime-first approach to data security, especially as AI systems autonomously interact with sensitive enterprise data. Aurva’s team is bringing a robust enterprise-grade solution to market at the right time.”
With the new funding, Aurva plans to grow its engineering team, expand AI observability features, and scale support for enterprise customers in the U.S. and globally.
