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About Uptycs

Security Begins With Better Data

Uptycs is built on a simple conviction: the quality of your security outcomes depends entirely on the quality of your security data.
That belief shapes everything we build. An open, unified foundation that gives security teams better visibility, richer context and more control over the data behind every decision.
Our Story

A Better Way Through a Fragmented Security Market.

Uptycs began with a conversation among our founders about a problem that still defines cybersecurity: fragmentation. Security teams run growing numbers of point solutions, each collecting its own data, using its own interface, and solving only part of the problem.

Rather than add another silo, they built an open foundation where security data is collected consistently, queried easily, and used to answer many different questions. Osquery, the open source endpoint telemetry framework, was the starting point. Uptycs built on it to make system data queryable through SQL at enterprise scale.

That foundation is what everything else runs on.

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Uptycs at a Glance

A Global Team, Building on One Conviction

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Founded

2016
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Headquarters

Lexington,
Massachusetts
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Global offices

Lexington
Bengaluru
Pune
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Funding raised

$93 million
in total funding
Backed for the Long Run

The Investors Who Believe in the Vision

Uptycs is backed by investors with deep experience in cybersecurity and enterprise technology. Comcast is both an early investor and a customer.
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Ganesh Pai

Founder and CEO

“What bothered me when we started Uptycs was how much of security had become a collection of black boxes. Every tool had its own agent, its own data, its own view of the world, and customers were expected to trust whatever answer came out. We believed the industry had it backwards. Start with open, high-quality data, make it easy to query and connect, and you can answer most security questions from the same foundation. That matters more now than it ever has. AI can only reason as well as the data underneath it, and it should be able to show you exactly how it got there.”
Our Journey

From an Idea to a Global Cybersecurity Company

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Our Approach

The Principles That Still Guide Us

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Start With the Data

Reliable security outcomes begin with security data that is rich, structured and useful.
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Keep It Open

Teams should be able to access and understand the information behind their security decisions.
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Connect the Context

Individual signals only tell part of the story. Their relationships provide the context teams need to understand what matters.
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Build for What’s Next

Security environments keep changing. The foundation underneath them should be able to evolve too.

Meet Our Leadership

The people leading Uptycs today bring our founding vision forward across technology, customer experience, operations, and growth.

Ganesh Pai

Founder and CEO

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Ganesh Pai

Founder and CEO

Ganesh Pai is Founder & CEO of Uptycs. He is a Boston-based entrepreneur and technologist (formerly Akamai, Verivue, NetDevices) and has been awarded multiple U.S. patents. Ganesh received a BE degree in electronics and communication engineering from Mangalore University and a MS in computer science from Temple University.

Uma Reddy

Founder and Chief Product Officer

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Uma Reddy

Founder and Chief Product Officer

Uma Reddy is Founder and Chief Product Officer at Uptycs, bringing deep engineering leadership experience from Sonus Networks and Verivue (acquired by Akamai), where he led large global teams and holds multiple U.S. patents.

Mike Hluchyj

Founder and Board Member

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Mike Hluchyj

Founder and Board Member

Kevin Durkin

CFO

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CFO

Divakar Permalla

VP of Customer Experience

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Divakar Permalla

VP of Customer Experience

Divakar Permalla is the VP of Customer Experience at Uptycs. He's an experienced leader with a commitment to customer experience and a proven record of managing end-to-end enterprise security software solutions. As a customer advocate, he helps companies reach their business goals by selecting, developing, integrating, and deploying applications/solutions enterprise-wide. Divakar is committed to working with his customers and their internal champion with a focus on business outcomes as opposed to pure technology approach.

Chetan Vinchhi

Head of India Operations

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Chetan Vinchhi

Head of India Operations

Umesh Sirsiwal

VP of AI & Technology Innovation

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Umesh Sirsiwal

VP of AI & Technology Innovation

Serial entrepreneur. Relentless tinkerer. 10 startups deep — now building the industry's most intelligent security AI Analyst, Juno.

Ronnen Brunner

VP Sales

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VP Sales

Meet Our Board of Directors

Our board brings experience across cybersecurity, enterprise technology, investment, and company building to help guide Uptycs as we continue to grow.

Alberto Yépez

Co-Founder and Managing Director, ForgePoint Capital

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Alberto Yépez

Co-Founder and Managing Director, ForgePoint Capital

Dave Zilberman

General Partner, NorwestVentures

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Dave Zilberman

General Partner, NorwestVentures

Jai Das

President, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures

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Jai Das

President, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures

Ganesh Pai

Founder and CEO

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Ganesh Pai

Founder and CEO

Ganesh Pai is Founder & CEO of Uptycs. He is a Boston-based entrepreneur and technologist (formerly Akamai, Verivue, NetDevices) and has been awarded multiple U.S. patents. Ganesh received a BE degree in electronics and communication engineering from Mangalore University and a MS in computer science from Temple University.

Uma Reddy

Founder and Chief Product Officer

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Uma Reddy

Founder and Chief Product Officer

Uma Reddy is Founder and Chief Product Officer at Uptycs, bringing deep engineering leadership experience from Sonus Networks and Verivue (acquired by Akamai), where he led large global teams and holds multiple U.S. patents.

Mike Hluchyj

Founder and Board Member

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Mike Hluchyj

Founder and Board Member

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What Comes Next

Still Building From the Data Up.

Attackers now move from initial access to lateral movement in seconds, and the AI meant to help is usually a black box you can't check. Both problems come back to the same thing: the quality of the data underneath, and whether you can see how an answer was reached.

That's what we build for. Better security data, open and queryable, with the evidence behind every finding.

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