Awake Security

DUPLICATE ENTRY NOTE: This database row (profile_id 10089868, name 'Awake Security', domain awakesecurity.com) is a DUPLICATE of a company already fully researched and ingested under profile_id 10020186 earlier in this project. That earlier row originated from a garbled/corrupted source database entry that listed the name as 'Untangle' with website 'arista.com' -- an internally inconsistent combination, since the real firewall company Untangle (untangle.com, founder Dirk Morris, investors Rustic Canyon Partners/CMEA Capital, no confirmed Greylock relationship) is a distinct entity from Awake Security. After investigation, that earlier row was resolved to represent Awake Security, the genuine Greylock-backed NDR company that was separately and confirmably acquired by Arista Networks in 2020 (the 'arista.com' field was coincidentally correct for the true underlying company, even though the 'Untangle' name was not). This new row, 10089868, is a second, direct, non-garbled database entry for the same real-world company (name 'Awake Security', domain 'awakesecurity.com' given cleanly in the source data), meaning the same company now exists twice in this database under two different profile_ids: 10020186 (originally mislabeled 'Untangle'/arista.com, since resolved) and 10089868 (this row). All facts below are independently re-verified and are consistent with, not contradictory to, the data recorded under 10020186.

Awake Security was founded in September 2014 (initially based in Mountain View, later headquartered in Santa Clara, California) by Debabrata Dash, Gary Golomb, Keith Amidon, and Michael Callahan (who served as Co-founder & CEO in the company's early years). The company built an AI- and machine-learning-driven network detection and response (NDR) platform centered on a proprietary 'Security Knowledge Graph' data model, which modeled network entities (devices, users, applications) rather than relying purely on IP-address-based analysis, enabling security teams to detect insider threats, corporate espionage, lateral movement, and data exfiltration with full forensic context across on-premises, IoT, and cloud network traffic. Crunchbase describes the platform as 'a network traffic analysis platform that combines artificial intelligence with human expertise to hunt for both insider and external attacker behaviors, while providing full forensics across traditional, IoT and cloud networks for autonomous triage and response.'

Greylock Partners invested in Awake Security's roughly $30M+ growth round announced July 17, 2017, alongside Bain Capital Ventures; Greylock partner Asheem Chandna and Bain Capital Ventures' Enrique Salem both joined Awake's board as part of that round (per FinSMEs' contemporaneous funding announcement, which explicitly names both Greylock Partners and Asheem Chandna). Greylock continued as an investor through Awake's $36 million Series C round, announced April 15, 2020, which was led by Evolution Equity Partners (whose partner Karthik Subramanian joined the board) with participation from Energize Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, and existing investors Bain Capital Ventures and Greylock Partners. This was independently re-confirmed via a direct fetch of the FinSMEs Series C article, which lists the same investor set, board members (Asheem Chandna, Enrique Salem, Kevin Mandia, plus new addition Karthik Subramanian), and CEO Rahul Kashyap. By the time of the Series C, cumulative funding was reported as 'nearly $80 million,' though some third-party databases (CB Insights, Growjo) list total funding closer to $66-67 million and Owler lists an outlier figure near $97.2 million -- a discrepancy likely reflecting different treatment of debt/undisclosed tranches or estimate methodology across these secondary sources.

Business model

B2B enterprise security software sold via subscription/license to enterprise security operations teams

Subscription / software license