1Touch
AcquiredFounded 2017 Β· 46 employees on LinkedIn Β· 8 known investors
1touch.io offers Kontxtual, a data security platform that continuously discovers sensitive data at rest and in motion, builds a contextual record per data element to track access, behavior, and exposure risk, and automates protection, compliance, and governance workflows. It uses AI-driven contextual intelligence and data mapping to serve global enterprises across their data environments.
Also known as 1Touch Β· 1touch.io Β· 1touch.io Inc.
Investors Β· 8
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Company profile
researched Aug 20261touch.io is an enterprise data security and data intelligence company. Its original product, Inventa, was a sensitive data intelligence solution that automated discovery and classification starting at the network layer, combining network analytics, repository scanning and a centralized management console to build an up-to-date master inventory of personal and sensitive data, including shadow IT and previously unknown data sources. Typical customer use cases cited by the company include cloud migration, third-party data sharing, attack surface reduction, DSAR request handling and extension of DLP programs.
The platform has since evolved into Kontxtual, described by the company as a next-generation data intelligence and orchestration platform. Kontxtual continuously discovers sensitive data at rest and in motion across structured and unstructured, cloud, SaaS, on-premises and mainframe environments; builds a contextual record per data element that tracks access, behavior and exposure risk within a multidimensional data graph; and then triggers protection, compliance and governance workflows through tools the customer already operates, using confidence scoring to reduce alert noise. Capability areas marketed by the company are data discovery and classification, access intelligence (permissions visibility, dormant and over-permissioned accounts), data governance (tagging, retention, lifecycle) and compliance automation for regimes such as GDPR, CPRA and HIPAA. Supporting architecture components include an "Active Data Fabric" layer for non-disruptive real-time mapping, classification and enrichment.
The company positions Kontxtual against DLP, DSPM, data catalog and IAM tooling, arguing those categories provide either static rules, undifferentiated alerting, passive inventories or identity-only views without data context. It reports 98.6% classification accuracy validated through third-party benchmarking.
Founding story
1touch was founded in 2017 by Dimitry (Dmitry Shevchenko), Itzhak Assaraf and Zak Rubinstein, drawing on prior experience in networking and security technology. The founders' starting observation was that enterprises actively use only about 15% of their data while the remaining 85% sits unmanaged, and that first-generation privacy tools required customers to tell the system where personal data resided rather than seeking it out. Market research in 2017 indicated that customers wanted continuous insight into how personal data was stored, processed and shared rather than a one-time inventory, which led the team to build a network-based discovery approach combining network analytics, repository scanning and management interfaces.
Business model
1touch.io sells an enterprise software platform to large organizations, supported by a partner and OEM channel. OEM agreements with IBM Security and Comforte extended reach into large accounts, and IBM embedded the Inventa technology in its own security portfolio under the ISDC name. The company also maintains a partners program and direct enterprise sales motion with demos and risk posture assessments.
Enterprise software sales of the Inventa/Kontxtual platform to global enterprises, complemented by OEM/channel arrangements such as those with IBM Security and Comforte.
Traction
The company reported over 300% year-over-year revenue growth as of its 2023 funding announcement, with numerous Fortune 500 customers and global accounts in financial services, insurance and hospitality placing the largest orders. Customer-reported outcomes published by the company include discovery of 91 million unprotected credit card records at a global financial services company, DSAR reports produced in 5 minutes instead of 45 days at a Fortune 500 healthcare company, a 90% reduction in manual audit workload and 4x faster compliance reporting.
Latest developments
On February 23, 2026, Everpure, Inc. (formerly Pure Storage Inc.) announced an agreement to acquire 1touch, a transaction subject to customary closing conditions and expected to close in the second quarter of Everpure's FY2027; the acquisition is intended to extend Everpure's data management capabilities with data discovery and semantic context. The 1touch.io website states that Everpure has completed the acquisition and that 1touch is now Everpure. The company also published a blog post titled "A New Chapter Begins: 1touch + Everpure" dated February 23, 2026.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
The company competes in sensitive data discovery, classification and data security posture management, differentiating from legacy discovery and classification tools, DLP, DSPM, data catalogs and IAM products. Validation of its market position includes IBM's adoption of Inventa within its $2B+ Security business and its acquisition by Everpure, which cited the addition of data discovery and semantic context to the Everpure Platform.
1touch.io states that, unlike vendors that outsource repository scanning to third parties, it built network analytics, repository scanning and management interfaces as a single solution, and that its team's background in network analytics and human identity mapping differentiates it. Additional stated differentiators are AI embedded across the data lifecycle, the multidimensional data graph, the Active Data Fabric, orchestration of actions through existing tools, and 98.6% classification precision that reduces false positives.
Technology
The platform uses network-layer discovery combined with repository scanning and machine learning, including a supervised AI classification module, and is built on open APIs for integration. Kontxtual adds LLM-driven contextual intelligence, a multidimensional data graph linking data objects to identities, systems, flows and exposure risks, semantic views driving contextual records, and an "Active Data Fabric" that maps, classifies and enriches data at rest and in motion without disrupting operations. Orchestration triggers policies in existing customer tooling with confidence scoring. The company cites 98.6% classification accuracy validated by third-party benchmarking and petabyte-scale operation.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by demo requests and live risk posture assessments on its website, a partner program, and OEM channel agreements with IBM Security and Comforte that provide reach into large accounts. Proceeds from the 2023 round were earmarked for scaling sales and marketing and increasing market share.
Global enterprises and Fortune 500 organizations with large, distributed data estates, including financial services, insurance, hospitality and healthcare accounts; buyers include security, privacy, compliance, governance and risk teams as well as CISOs and CIOs.
Geography
Headquartered in New York, with the company stating a presence across 17 countries.
History
Founded in 2017, the company first brought Inventa to market for sensitive data discovery and classification. IBM incorporated Inventa as the discovery and classification component of its Security business under the name IBM Security Discovery & Classification (ISDC). A $14M Series A was announced in June 2020, followed by a $14M round led by Neotribe Ventures announced in May 2023 (reported as a Series B). The product line subsequently evolved into the Kontxtual platform, and leadership changed with Ashish Gupta serving as President and CEO while co-founder Itzhak Assaraf remained CTO. On February 23, 2026, Everpure, Inc. (formerly Pure Storage Inc.) announced an agreement to acquire 1touch; the company's site subsequently stated that the acquisition had completed and that 1touch is now Everpure.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 7
launches, deals, and filingsEverpure completed the acquisition of 1touch.io Inc. from a group of shareholders on May 11, 2026.
Everpure, Inc., formerly Pure Storage Inc., announced an agreement to acquire 1touch, subject to customary closing conditions and expected to close in the second quarter of Everpure's FY2027. The deal adds data discovery and semantic context to the Everpure Platform. 1touch.io's website subsequently stated the acquisition had completed.
Everpure (NYSE:PSTG) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 1touch.io Inc. from a group of shareholders, subject to customary closing conditions and expected to close in Q2 FY27. Centerview Partners LLC acted as financial advisor to 1touch.io; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP advised Everpure.
1touch.io's platform evolved from Inventa into Kontxtual, a data intelligence and orchestration platform providing continuous discovery, contextual records per data element, a multidimensional data graph and automated protection, compliance and governance workflows.
1touch.io raised $14M led by Neotribe Ventures with continuing support from National Grid Partners, Ocean Azul Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners, to scale sales and marketing and increase market share. Nitin Chopra of Neotribe joined the board of directors.
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OEM agreements with IBM Security and Comforte supported a channel strategy providing reach into large accounts; IBM incorporated Inventa as the discovery and classification component of its Security business under the name IBM Security Discovery & Classification (ISDC).
The company announced a $14M Series A round; it stated the round was oversubscribed at $20M for an initially planned $8M raise and that it chose to stop at $14M. Series A discussions began in Q4 2019 with outreach to investors from mid-January 2020.
$14M source β
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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primary sources listed
- 1Touch1touch.io Β· web
- Everpure completed the acquisition of 1touch.io Inc. from a group of shareholders. | MarketScreenermarketscreener.com Β· web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does 1Touch do?
- 1touch.io builds Kontxtual, an AI-driven sensitive data discovery, classification and orchestration platform; acquired by Everpure.
- Who are 1Touch's investors?
- 1Touch's investors include Connecticut Innovations, Mindset Venture, National Grid Partners, Neotribe Ventures, Ocean Azul Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), SixThirty Ventures.